The Art Of Wor[k]: Like Sun Tzu For The Cubicle Dweller (First In A Series)
1. Only fools visit the vending machines on the day of customer meetings. The wise man waits for his quarry to appear in the kitchenette, slightly stale.
Don't Call It A Condiment
…Cause I'm only playing catch-up.
See, because it's a homonym with… Bah, never mind. On with the Friday Link Dump!
Hollywood is definitely out to retroactively destroy my childhood. How else can one explain their insistence on changing G.I. Joe from hard-charging defenders of America into a namby-pamby "international" strike force under the auspices of [...]
The First Rule Of Corporate Compliance Training
…Is: The correct answer is not, as one might think, the right (ethically, morally, etc.) one, but instead the one that will end up costing the Company the least amount of money in court proceedings.
Keeping this rule and its close cousins ("When in doubt, the snitchy answer is best" and "Reprisals aren't real and, besides, [...]
Dear Abby…
A brief question, dear readers:
What, precisely, is the proper workplace restroom response to a coworker who, by all appearances, is talking to his toilet bowl, other than fleeing the scene at top speed?
Follow-up question:
What is the proper response when encountering said coworker in the hallway later in the day? (Note that he [...]
Blogslacking (Or, As I Like To Call It, "Doing Real Work")
I've been very busy here at WWDC these past two days and thus haven't really had time to post much.
Classes have been interesting and mostly useful. I got a chance to go out and see Ocean's 13 the other night. My one sentence review: sappy, sentimental, a bit contrived, not much suspense, worse [...]
Airport Blogging
I'm sitting in PHL waiting for my flight to arrive and ferry me off to Apple's WWDC '07 and must admit to a good deal of excitement. Not only am I going to get to attend my first Stevenote (one that should include iPhone and Leopard info aplenty) but, as Matt Mullenweg mentioned, I'll [...]
