It’s been REAL - 7.5 years in review
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
After seven and a half years it’s time to say goodbye.
Here’s some parting remarks about my tenure on the edge of the internet.
- I’ve had more managers than offices
- I’ve had a lot of offices
- I started as an immigrant, became a resident and left a citizen
- I’m surprised I wasn’t fired
- Flexible work schedules make flexible employees
- Free pepsi and coke is not an effective tool to boost employee morale
- Beer apparently is
- Life balance is not defined by how many hours one spends in meetings versus the hours one spends in their office
- Why bother holding a meeting when the decision has already been made - send a memo or something
- Becoming a VP doesn’t automatically make you Bill Gates
- I’m surprised how many people love taco salads
- The quality of software engineering is directly proportional to the quality of the software engineers’ management.
- Halloween should be a national holiday
- August R’n'R is a good idea only if you plan to not achieve anything in August
- For a company on the bleeding edge of the digital information revolution, submitting paper forms to report vacation seems kind of quaint
- Rebranding websites and players for “partners” is never a good or profitable idea
- It’s just entertainment on the internet, nobody is going to die if it doesn’t launch on time
- Deadlines should only be decided upon when at least one person knows what should be delivered on that deadline
- There are worse places to work than RN however complacency is not an excuse to stay
