Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Stolen idea goes nowhere

So I gave up on automating some of our testing tasks because my co-worker said he had a better way to do it with Python. Well, here it is weeks later and he still hasn't produced anything that we can use. When I asked him how he was coming along with it he brushed me off and said he has better things to do.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Goodbye Nick

Nick, a programmer that has been here for much longer than I have, got fired today. It's weird to think that they kept someone so incompetent on for so long, but this company can be very charitable towards its employees. As I understand it, Nick received a very healthy severance package to honor his many years of service.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Raking it in

I was talking to one of the developers the other day about how his Christmas vacation went. Soon we were talking about various vacation destinations and he told me that the owner of the company had taken his entire family on a vacation to Jamaica a few years ago that cost $100 dollars per day for each person. He took about 10 people on that vacation and was gone for 10 days. That's over $10,000 for a vacation! That same summer the VP of our department went to China for two weeks. Sounds like it was a good year for the company and I'll bet everyone got great bonuses that Christmas!

Friday, January 4, 2008

Peggle

All of the developers have become obsessed with a game called Peggle and have been playing it non-stop for days now. It seems like its a huge drain on productivity but nobody seems to care. I suppose its just an indication that most of management is gone at trade shows this week.