Why I Work Here

[bzarcher]

On my way down the hall a few minutes ago, I got passed by one of our VPs. I nodded to her, but then she stopped and held out her hand to congratulate me.

This was confusing, so I thanked her, but wasn't sure why.

She explained that she'd noticed I'd bought a new car over the weekend, and said it looked really nice. Asked if it was my first new car, and I explained it was my 2nd, but the first one I'd bought without help from my parents. We talked about cars for a minute or two in the hall, and then she went on her way after congratulating me again.

The people in this company actually notice stuff like that, and they like to be nice about it. You see moments like that happen more often than not. People are nice here, as long as their computer isn't broken.

For all the stress I get at times, that's why I'm really happy to work here.

Comments

[karzon.livejournal.com]

But, but ... their software! I hate it!

Can't they just give me an API to hook into it instead of having to write an expect wrapper around it?

:)

Glad the company is good to work for. Their products are ubiquitous.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Keep sending feedback to the developers. :D Hell, now that we're merging some of the product with Yantra software, maybe we'll add in better API functionality, since that's Yantra's bread and butter from what I understand.

Don't hate the coder, baby. Hate the code.

[karzon.livejournal.com]

Don't hate the coder, baby. Hate the code.
Whatever. The coder writes the code. Really, I should be hating the designers.

I decompiled one of their (your?) apps and the interface code was so tightly woven with the secure ftp portion that it was impossible to write for it programmatically. :(

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't code anything directly, so "their" is pretty good.

Sorry, man. All I can ever say is "I didn't do it!"

[duneaql1.livejournal.com]

That's rather uplifting.:)