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Sep. 30th, 2008 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamI've been working late, getting frustrated over what I'm doing, and stressing out (as I tend to do), but there are many awesome things about work, some of which I'm now going to enumerate to remind myself that I have a pretty sweet deal going here.
This whole access to unlimited food and drink, including dinner, while working late? It's good stuff.
Three of the five engineers on my team have decided that periodically wearing paper party hats with fake flowers sticking out the top is a totally brilliant idea. They look like Pikmin. (I informed them of this but sadly they did not know what Pikmin were.) When someone asks them why they are wearing these things, they insist they have no idea what that person is talking about.
The site director for my office really honest to god seems to care about how I'm doing here.
There is an office D&D game starting next week.
There is yoga two nights a week.
If you decide the best use of your time is to go listen to a talk on something completely unrelated to your work, nobody questions it.
Office mailing list conversations are liberally laden with both really smart comments and really dumb internet injokes, and sometimes both at the same time -- for example, when questioning some sketchy science, "Peer reviewed journal or it didn't happen."
And finally, when I go in tomorrow and ask for help because doing pagination with a variable number of items per page is an enormous pain and I can't figure out how to do it elegantly if it even *can* be done, people are going to tell me asking questions is good and not chastise me for not knowing how to do it well, even though I am madly behind and we are up against a (semi-self-imposed) deadline.
This whole access to unlimited food and drink, including dinner, while working late? It's good stuff.
Three of the five engineers on my team have decided that periodically wearing paper party hats with fake flowers sticking out the top is a totally brilliant idea. They look like Pikmin. (I informed them of this but sadly they did not know what Pikmin were.) When someone asks them why they are wearing these things, they insist they have no idea what that person is talking about.
The site director for my office really honest to god seems to care about how I'm doing here.
There is an office D&D game starting next week.
There is yoga two nights a week.
If you decide the best use of your time is to go listen to a talk on something completely unrelated to your work, nobody questions it.
Office mailing list conversations are liberally laden with both really smart comments and really dumb internet injokes, and sometimes both at the same time -- for example, when questioning some sketchy science, "Peer reviewed journal or it didn't happen."
And finally, when I go in tomorrow and ask for help because doing pagination with a variable number of items per page is an enormous pain and I can't figure out how to do it elegantly if it even *can* be done, people are going to tell me asking questions is good and not chastise me for not knowing how to do it well, even though I am madly behind and we are up against a (semi-self-imposed) deadline.
