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abcdefz
06-14-2006, 10:34 AM
...that was cool. (y)

I'm doing documentation, working on an index for our software, which assists in chip design. In other words: I don't know a whole lot about this stuff.

Anyway, I'm working on the index, which is kind of tangled because I can't always tell what is a sub-entry of what, and what is tangible enough to have its own entry, etc. He was looking over it and I think he could tell I was feeling kind of frustrated over my inadequacy, and he said, "When I wrote my books? I didn't do the index. The editor didn't do the index. They hire someone to come in and do the index, because it's hard." I said I just felt kind of weird, because I've been here almost a year now and still don't know much of what this material is, and he said something like "Why would you? I'm not 'being nice.' Don't worry about it" and that was it.

Yeah. That was very understanding.

b i o n i c
06-14-2006, 10:35 AM
my boss needs to go bowling with your boss

abcdefz
06-14-2006, 10:50 AM
Actually, we've been talking about going bowling. Maybe when work slows down. The last trip was a snow skiing trip; bowling would be, let's say, a little more democratic.

They've done some cool staff trips here -- besides lunches and stuff, they took time off to see each of the LOTR movies when they came out. Stuff like that. Kinda cool.

mickill
06-14-2006, 11:15 AM
From the thread title, I thought this was going to be about hand jobs and reach arounds and dirty sanchez'z.

Way to disappoint, man.

abcdefz
06-14-2006, 11:24 AM
My definition of "nice" isn't that far-reaching. So to speak.

b i o n i c
06-14-2006, 11:43 AM
Actually, we've been talking about going bowling. Maybe when work slows down. The last trip was a snow skiing trip; bowling would be, let's say, a little more democratic.

They've done some cool staff trips here -- besides lunches and stuff, they took time off to see each of the LOTR movies when they came out. Stuff like that. Kinda cool.


Now THAT's what i'm talkinabout... how fucking cool - staff trips. i don't get shit up in this shitpiece

abcdefz
06-14-2006, 11:45 AM
What's REALLY cool is the staff trips aren't mandatory, either. So if you're not into skiing, you aren't ostracized for not going, etc. THAT'S pretty cool, because at a couple of other places where I worked, by God, you were going to have fun whether you liked it or not. :rolleyes: