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.

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.

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!

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.

He stole my idea

I had a great idea for streamlining some of the tasks that we have to do as part of our everyday testing. It involved using standardized automation tools to automate some of the more repetive tasks that we have to do often. Just when I was starting to get some traction in getting it all working right another co-worker (the one with his own office for naps) started putting it down in front of my manager and said that he could right a better tool using Python. Can you believe that?

Does he know my name?

I just noticed today that the owner of the company never addresses me by name. Is it possible that he hasn't even bothered to learn it? Or perhaps it's some sort of hierarchy thing. I don't know but it seems kind of strange for a management team that cares so much about it's employees.

Return of the bonus

My boss pulled me aside this morning and told me that they've been quite happy with my work this year. As a result they are issuing me a bonus check later this week for over one thousand dollars! Yahoo!