yanthor.net

Started: 2002-08-22 08:44:26

Submitted: 2002-08-22 09:20:12

Visibility: World-readable

An anonymous friend Yanthor e-mailed me a link to the webpage where he (I'll ignore any pretense of hiding Yanthor's gender, since he does mention his wife on one of his early journals) hopes to have a great, fun-filled discussion about various issues. Since the discussion forums aren't up yet, but I feel compelled to respond in some form or another to the content there, I'll use my own webpage as a response forum.

(This also suggests that I should get Content Solutions 2.0 up and running, and invite this Yanthor individual to join.)

"Excuse me, sir. We're cutting your pay."

*twitch* they cut your pay without bothering to tell you about it beforehand? (Although this six-day working vacation may have had something to do about that, but still...) The quandary of working for a floundering company is that it might die a horrible and painful death, but it might turn around and become the next $REALLY_SUCESSFULL_COMPANY. Since I'm personally in job-search mode, I'm personally rather annoyed at the economy. (Or maybe it's just that my resume sucks. (I do have it in Word format, but I saved it using AbiWord, so I suppose I should double-check that it really does work with a real version of said inferior software.)) (This segues into a tiny little discussion about my current employment search, which is rather bad, except for a tiny little job at Buildmeasite. Which still doesn't count as a real, live job.)

Privacy in the Workplace

Major corporate entities suck. That's all there is to it. (Or maybe just some of them. scottgalvin.com tells me that at his internship at Sun a few years ago, he had to e-mail his boss whenever he was out of his cubicle -- to go to the restroom, or whatever.) I liked working at Spatial, not only because the work was fun, but also because the corporate climate was good and non-oppressive. I got to use the operating system of my choice and show up at 0900 if I wanted to. My boss wore sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt every day of the week, so I always out-dressed him in khaki and a t-shirt. Even after Spatial was bought by Dassault, it was still basically the same, except for a few token French guys wandering around.

I've seen this quote on Bitscape's Lounge, but I wasn't quite bored enough to hit reload a thousand times until I pulled it up, so I cheated and found the fortune file on Argo's hard drive.

A world in which a whole community is in violation of a law is a world in which the government can arbitrarily arrest anyone, essentially a police state.
-- Jason Kroll