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late starts

By lemon On January 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In work

Three minutes. That’s all it took to miss my bus and watch it leave in a puffy cloud of steam and exhaust while I was still hoofing it in the stairwell.

Damn the weather for forcing me to defrost my car.

Hopefully this isn’t an omen of how this next year at my job [...]

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walk through the hallway, you lazy bum

By lemon On July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In annoying, Microsoft, work

If you know anything about Microsoft at all, then you know that a very large percentage of the people who work there are actually contractors. The prevailing joke is that most of the work around here gets done by the contractors, while the FTEs are off on their little “morale events” and vacations.

Anyway, a [...]

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think to the solution, not the problems

By lemon On April 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Microsoft, work

The people at Microsoft wonder why the software giant’s reputation is so bad. Well, if an encounter with one of my coworkers last week is any indicator, the company needs a severe overhaul to cut the deadweight and hire on some sharp people blessed with aggressive common sense.

An external person sent an email with [...]

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to new beginnings

By lemon On August 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Microsoft, work

Today’s fluff: Had lunch with M and J today, and spent the day alternating between working on spreadsheets and semi-afk-botting in bgs.

For what must have been at least the hundredth time since I started my job at MS, I wondered what I was doing with my life and how I came to be in [...]

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