The Easter Egg I’ve added to the corporate site has been discovered by our QA team. That’s good for the QA team. And bad for the site. Now it’s just one of those boring corporate web places again.
Tag: work
Telling people to leave finance
Telling people to leave finance
First, I want to say it’s frustrating how risk-averse the culture in finance is. I know, it’s strange to hear that, but compared to working in a start-up, I found the culture and people in finance to be way more risk-averse in the sense of personal risk, not in the sense of “putting other people’s money at risk”.
People in start-ups are optimistic about the future, ready for the big pay-out that may never come, whereas the people in finance are ready for the world to melt down and are trying to collect enough food before it happens. I don’t know which is more accurate but it’s definitely more fun to be around optimists. Young people get old quickly in finance.
Spending the last few years in a variety of forex companies, I have to agree.
Too many abbreviations?
I just received a legitimate work email that looked very much like:
Hi. Pls rst IIS to NTP on PRP. Thx. Bye.
It took me longer to expand all abbreviations than it would the sender to type all the words in full, even if he’s using half a finger to do so. Awkward.
How GitHub Works
Things like these, give me hope again in the human race, happiness, and work place.
We want to foster a creative environment. We love it when employees hack on side projects. It gets people excited. Excitement is contagious, and spreads easily from one project to another. Even if we’ll never make money on that side project, the excitement generated from it can bleed into things that will make us money.
NSFW: Satyromania
This is something I call an unexpected Google search explosion. They happen once in a while when in a company of Google aware people. Here’s how it goes. First, Michael shared this joke on Facebook.
Here is my rough translation, if you don’t read Russian:
– Mom, what’s a nymphomaniac.
– It’s a woman obsessed with sex.
– And how would you call a man obsessed with sex?
– A man.
So, I showed it to a few coworkers and we had a chuckle. Then one of them said that men’s hypersexuality is called satyromania. Wikipedia, of course. We had more laughs, as the guy who said that is actually Romanian. SatyROMANIAN? And then I suggested that he should buy the domain name. Which would obviously be already taken. So we rushed in to check it out. And that’s how I came across some really good erotic drawings by Mark Blanton. They are more on the porn side of things, but they are really good. Here is one of the least pornish ones. Not safe for work, you’ve been warned.
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