ack!
this is sobering news. i don't think there's anything wrong with posting stuff like this. while i don't want it to be the only thing that this blog is for, i do realize that some of our reader/writers are not the most emotionally expressive people and for them writing a news post and letting others gather the information is easier than telling people straight-up and having to answer questions/endure advice, etc.
that said, let me give you some advice mikex0r. you're right to let go of the 9%. i'll see barry at the shop today and i'll tell him. there's always one person who's ready to break up and one person who's not. it's usually because the other person's been ready to break up for a while and has just found a good reason, so the dumpee is almost always left out in the cold. nothing you can do about it dude. fuck it.
and yes, apart from ethnic heritage, particular venue of employ and gross body weight, martin's dad and my dad are the same person. ironically (and for you sticklers out there, ask and i'll explain how it's ironic), roxanne's mom and my mom are also the same person, if you take out the marital status and sailor-shaming mouth on barbara.
on a lighter note, i've been getting some great stuff accomplished at work and the people at my office are really awesome. matt, who i think we all know, is the man a ususal. greg is also awesome, though rarely naked at the office. some have met ben who's interning and greg is trying to rope in as a longer-term intern/coop or permanent employee. he also rules. business is really starting to boom, which is sort of cool. it's a little scary, though. start-ups are awesome cause it's uber-work-y-time, but there aren't really any rules cause the group is so small and everyone can't help but communicate. once the company starts growing, there's no choice but add policies, procedures, etc to make the business function smoothly. that's great for administrators, but for j. random motherfucker working at the company it is decidedly less fun. this is not (and i don't expcet it to ever, really) happening in the extreme now, it's just that we're working very hard on getting some larger accounts, etc, so we are starting to act more like a big business. maybe it's just cause i have to fill out an expense report to get my money back from purchases made for various projects, etc. maybe i'm just a little bitch. who knows.
the company is run by our favorite bastard child of mother nature: anarchy. it's great, cause it forces you to be responsible for your own actions, goals, etc. it also grows you up real damned fast. i like it a lot, but it took a little time to adjust to. in school, everything was measured at each step, and you were given concrete feedback on what you'd done. here, everyone is very busy doing what they're doing, so even people who seem like they would be your boss or director or like they'd be interested in what you're doing don't really have time to look over your shoulder and validate you each time you think you've done something cool. so you have to learn to judge your own accomplishments and learn which milestones are actually significtant. cause when you ask people to look at those, they're going to love it instead of feel like their time is being wasted.
so i don't know if any of you know (i know some of you do, actually), but matt is very important at this company. he's co-founder, partner, cto, the whole shebang. it's very very cool for him. i'm telling you this because it makes what i'm going to say next a lot funnier. after about 3 weeks working there contract, greg said that he'd be hiring me full time to be matt's boss. matt is working on his phd so he isn't around as much as he used to be and hence the comm link between the adminstrators and the engineers had been somewhat severed. since i can decipher the code that greg speaks in, it made sense for me to fill that liason positon.
so now i fire matt once or twice a week.
gotta run.
this is sobering news. i don't think there's anything wrong with posting stuff like this. while i don't want it to be the only thing that this blog is for, i do realize that some of our reader/writers are not the most emotionally expressive people and for them writing a news post and letting others gather the information is easier than telling people straight-up and having to answer questions/endure advice, etc.
that said, let me give you some advice mikex0r. you're right to let go of the 9%. i'll see barry at the shop today and i'll tell him. there's always one person who's ready to break up and one person who's not. it's usually because the other person's been ready to break up for a while and has just found a good reason, so the dumpee is almost always left out in the cold. nothing you can do about it dude. fuck it.
and yes, apart from ethnic heritage, particular venue of employ and gross body weight, martin's dad and my dad are the same person. ironically (and for you sticklers out there, ask and i'll explain how it's ironic), roxanne's mom and my mom are also the same person, if you take out the marital status and sailor-shaming mouth on barbara.
on a lighter note, i've been getting some great stuff accomplished at work and the people at my office are really awesome. matt, who i think we all know, is the man a ususal. greg is also awesome, though rarely naked at the office. some have met ben who's interning and greg is trying to rope in as a longer-term intern/coop or permanent employee. he also rules. business is really starting to boom, which is sort of cool. it's a little scary, though. start-ups are awesome cause it's uber-work-y-time, but there aren't really any rules cause the group is so small and everyone can't help but communicate. once the company starts growing, there's no choice but add policies, procedures, etc to make the business function smoothly. that's great for administrators, but for j. random motherfucker working at the company it is decidedly less fun. this is not (and i don't expcet it to ever, really) happening in the extreme now, it's just that we're working very hard on getting some larger accounts, etc, so we are starting to act more like a big business. maybe it's just cause i have to fill out an expense report to get my money back from purchases made for various projects, etc. maybe i'm just a little bitch. who knows.
the company is run by our favorite bastard child of mother nature: anarchy. it's great, cause it forces you to be responsible for your own actions, goals, etc. it also grows you up real damned fast. i like it a lot, but it took a little time to adjust to. in school, everything was measured at each step, and you were given concrete feedback on what you'd done. here, everyone is very busy doing what they're doing, so even people who seem like they would be your boss or director or like they'd be interested in what you're doing don't really have time to look over your shoulder and validate you each time you think you've done something cool. so you have to learn to judge your own accomplishments and learn which milestones are actually significtant. cause when you ask people to look at those, they're going to love it instead of feel like their time is being wasted.
so i don't know if any of you know (i know some of you do, actually), but matt is very important at this company. he's co-founder, partner, cto, the whole shebang. it's very very cool for him. i'm telling you this because it makes what i'm going to say next a lot funnier. after about 3 weeks working there contract, greg said that he'd be hiring me full time to be matt's boss. matt is working on his phd so he isn't around as much as he used to be and hence the comm link between the adminstrators and the engineers had been somewhat severed. since i can decipher the code that greg speaks in, it made sense for me to fill that liason positon.
so now i fire matt once or twice a week.
gotta run.
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