Monster poop
Anyone who schedules meetings at 8:30am deserves to be taken out behind the woodshed and beaten senseless. I don’t wanna go.
Read More Monster poopMeeting^3
I just had a meeting about a meeting about a meeting about the DoubleClick upgrade. Not kidding. We had to prepare our agenda for the meeting in which we’re going to prepare the schedule for when we meet with DoubleClick about performing an upgrade. Man, this place loves its meetings!
Read More Meeting^3I wanna FlipDog him off…
“Hi, I’m from FlipDog. We want to use your swell DoubleClick ad servers.” “Okay, to see if our servers can handle the additional load, please answer these questions…” *silence* …one month later… “So when can we start using DoubleClick?” “Did you get our questions? We need those answered first.” …one week later… “Sorry about the […]
Read More I wanna FlipDog him off…For your reading pleasure…
Monster founder tells employers to value workers Jeff Taylor warns of looming ‘human capital shortage’ as boomers die off. By Cheryl Hall The Dallas Morning News November 13, 2002 Jeff Taylor sounds like a nut case when he talks about a critical shortage of workers at a time when layoffs and unemployed masses abound. You’re […]
Read More For your reading pleasure…Today = Suckage
Okay, I could write up a long rant about all the stuff that went wrong today, but instead I’ll just list it all. Seems like more fun at the moment… Stuff that went wrong today: I missed Christine’s call to my cell on my drive in because I had the radio turned up too loud […]
Read More Today = SuckageFor the record:
F’dCompany had this to say: Slimed Rumor has it 98 people were laid off from Monster.com this morning. When: 11/12/2002 Company: Monster.com Severity: 75 Points: 172 They’re wrong. It was only about 35 people. …none in my department. By the way, Monster layoffs are always on Tuesdays.
Read More For the record:My own Twenty-Four…and then some.
Thursday, 7:00am I woke up, got dressed, packed up my Renamon costume, and went to work. 9:30am Arrived at work and got some stuff done. Answered e-mails and all that. 11:45am Ducked into the floor’s private bathroom and changed into the Renamon costume. Noon Lunch meeting with the department and Information Services. 1:00pm Toured the […]
Read More My own Twenty-Four…and then some.The stress that consumed me
So back when I didn’t have a real job, it stressed me out. That was all I could think about. Every day, it was “How much money do I have left?”, “How long can I last on that?”, “How can I get more money?”, “What will I do if I run out of money?”, and other […]
Read More The stress that consumed meDefend yourself from the army of beasts within. What the heck does that mean?
I’m tired of having to explain everything I do here at work. For example, I sent out a notice at 2pm saying that we’d be rebooting a server at 5:30pm. 15 minutes ago I got an e-mail asking “Wasn’t this supposed to go out a few hours ago? Why the late notice? Please try to […]
Read More Defend yourself from the army of beasts within. What the heck does that mean?Pepsi: The Choice of a Greedy Generation
Monster is a Coca-Cola lovin’ company. Our soda fountain machine dispenses Coke products, there’s occasionally Vanilla Coke cans or bottles in the food vending machine (we don’t have a soda vending machine), and they always buy bottles of Coke products whenever they order lunch for meetings. (Although lately they’ve been getting cans instead.) Today…not a […]
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