Several years ago I worked with a fellow I’ll call Mike. Mike was six or eight years older than I and an upper middle manager type; the sort of fellow who was going to appear on promotion-to-VP candidate lists for a year or two and eventually get there. I didn’t report to him, nor was … Read more
Despite possessing discretion sufficient for most any occasion, occasionally I come up with what I think is a good line and it’s out of my mouth before it ever hits a decorum filter of any kind. Five or so years ago, I went to a localization luncheon for the software I was working on. All … Read more
Just about everybody has stayed up all night at least once. But about twelve years ago, I pulled exactly 74 waking hours in a row: from 6:30 Tuesday morning to 8:30 Friday morning. Someone who was leaving the company had grossly understated the amount of work remaining on a large software manual. She had been … Read more