Happy New Year
- January 22nd, 2004
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- By midbach
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To my Chinese friends, Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Crongrats are in order to John and his wife (whose name escapes me, or I’d be using it now…) who today became the proud parents of a baby boy! Conveniently, John lost his job 10 days ago…
We were told that there will be a meeting on Tuesday. That set off a whole new round of speculation on the nature of the meeting. “Do you think it’s just an update or will they turf us all?” “If we survive, do you think they turf us after our project is done?” “What’s up with Biff’s hair?”
It’s all pretty shitty and the only consensus that was agreed upon was that we want this to be over sooner rather than later.
I updated my resume last night which actually went pretty smoothly. I’ve applied for one job, which would be really cool, but I doubt I’ll get anywhere with it. I don’t even know that I’m going to lose my job but one needs to be realistic and realize that there’s a good chance that I will.
One thing I hated about the last place was that it was so quiet. Today I was sitting in my cube and realized it was dead silent. Everyone is good on the surface, but just below that there’s a lot of apprehension.
Even now it’s different from a few years ago where it was so lively and dynamic. I still want to stay but who knows what the new environment will be like.
Me thinks it’s time for some GTA…
what do you mean “what’s wrong with biff’s hair”?
do you know how many hours i spend on it??
Wow! Congrats to John and his better half (it’s Dagny BTW).
Hope you guys get the news from work out of the way. It’s been the topic of a lot of your blogs lately and obviously it’s getting to everyone.
Don’t worry about Shnewt’s hair too much. It’s always been like that.
PS. If you want something else to keep you busy on your site … there is another weird effect. Whenever I hover over your links, the text on the page ‘shifts’. It’s probably another CSS thing and definitely not as bad as the ‘ghost posts’, but still annoying enough that I keep noticing it.
Thanks for the tip Karna. I figured he’d lose the domain, but hats off to Microsoft for a decent settlement… He got a sweet deal.
How odd that this post might appear before yours
uh, I mean Karan…
Ok, so you didn’t comment on this post.
Screw it… I’m going to bed.
Just hang in there Mark, they would be lost without you! I know we would love to have you if and when our IT gets it together and leaves I’ll personally recommend you to the high ups!