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| A new proverb: "1 When instructing a fellow corporate stranger on the current affairs of the firm, be careful what advice you give him, especially if you are wrong. 2 In fact, it is best to not say anything at all - 3 afterwards, you will find that he was senior management."
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| Phrases that I have accidentally used this past week when speaking to clients or senior managers: "hooked me up", "that's cool", "whatever man" and "yeah man".
After five months I still haven't purified my speech and joined the upper echelon of grown-up speak.
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| Note to self: when at work, try to resist automatically responding to "this is {adjective]" with "your face is [adjective]."
Second note to self: never talk about another coworker, ever. On the phone he may sound miles away, but is in fact just a few cubes down.
I should turn these into fortune cookie messages to help out other n00b workers. (btw has anyone noticed the lack of quality in fortune cookie messages these days? My last one read: "What do you call a lamb with no legs? A cloud." Somewhere in the distant land of fortune writers, somebody got really bored...someone with a bad sense of humor. I want my money back.)
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| What will probably happen tomorrow:
-Coworker 1: "My sons were sick last night...I hardly got any sleep at all!"
-Coworker 2: "Yeah, we just bought a new house in Jersey...I spent a few hours just directing the movers!"
-Coworker 3: "I'm still sweatin' over the market - I shouldn't have picked up those small cap stocks!"
-Coworker 2: "By the way, what happened to the prod server last night?! I got paged at 3am?"
-Coworker 1: "Joe, you look pretty beat yourself...what made you stay up so late?"
-Me: "I played Panda Pang all night."
I wish I could at least say I was partying, or doing something that 'young people' do to make them envious. Instead, I was playing this stupid game. Note: don't play this game. You will get to Level 12, and will hear a popping noise of death once you think you're on your way to winning (see below). But I know all you college kids are going to play it anyway. So, to all of you procrastinators (especially in SEAS)...please put this evil panda back in its place in the virtual abyss of forgotten cyberspace. Please, for all our sakes...win it for us all.
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| I'm in a Haiku mood. Third verse happened yesterday.
Sir leaves heavy pen.
I toss the pen; simple throw.
Lands hard on keyboard.
Notice my hard work:
Proudly I print and read docs.
Front page says: Don't Print.
Big cheese gives long talk -
Later, I complain; turn 'round,
Cheese is behind me.
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