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By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 02:29:53 AM EST) A Day in the Life, cubicle, time zones, Eastern Bloc, pie (all tags)
Cow-orkers IX: No Time Like the Present

Most people don't give time a lot of thought. If you log into an application and enter some data, you can look at your watch and that's the time you did it. It could be a lot more complicated than that inside the system architecture though, and I've become $MegaCorp's expert on the subject. I've had to write a couple documents and issue two edicts, one of which is basically translated as either, "Just give me any ticket that references time," or "Take any ticket about time and then take credit by getting me to resolve it for you playing Chinese Whispers."

Carla's supposedly at my seniority level. My mentoree Paul has been with us for about six weeks now and is considerably more competent than she. He proves this Every. Single. Fucking. Day.

Also inside, a glimmer of hope.

x-posted to da brog, sans poll.


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