Category Archives: work

So, didn’t get fired today.  Actually quite a nice meeting, it seems that we are bucking the trend and doing all right despite the crashing economy.  We have more customers than the year before, delivered more products in less time, … Continue reading →

I’m not sure how to feel about this. I’m a believer, personally, in staying the hell home when I’m sick instead of going in to work. I meet a lot of other people who feel the same way, and I … Continue reading →

So, there’s this developer at work who I have kind of a friendly adversarial relationship with. That is to say, he’s a decent enough guy and we get along well, but he really doesn’t understand what QA’s role is.  He … Continue reading →

I’ve been at my current job for about 16 months, so I’m guessing I got this email based on it being a year since moving from “probationary employee” to “OK, we’re going to keep you around” full-time employee. From: (our … Continue reading →

I had to file a bug, a couple of weeks ago, which read something like: “Monthly reports for xyzzy corp don’t seem to work; I can see data in the DB tables but when I try to run the reports … Continue reading →

At work, there’s an analog clock on the wall near my desk. It’s typically about 5 minutes fast.  I’m basing this by comparing its time to two different cell phones – that automatically have their time set from the cell … Continue reading →

I actually don’t have an unkind word for my current employer.  I’ve been there about 10 weeks and I quite like everyone, even my boss, so this shouldn’t be taken as a neener, neener, kind of post. My current position … Continue reading →

So I’m about 3 weeks in to the new job and starting to build a rapport with our development staff.  It really is a pretty decent place to work, and they’re all pretty pleasant which is fairly unusual for coder … Continue reading →

I have a new job, so I have to learn a whole new set of processes and development tools, including a new bug tracking system. I was taking notes today while I experimented with the bug tracking system, and I … Continue reading →