Yes, this happened. Or very much. I do have an email as proof of the ‘well it didn’t work with this site, maybe just copy from this other site’.
Luckily the only consequence was a very surprised corporate lawyer. I repeat, this is a fictional depiction, an hypothetical situation, no baby monkey was harm or sold.
(more...)You can find some of the toughest guys in charge of NOCs.
(more...)This is all too common… you can blame the UX designer for agreeing to do crap in the first place or the manager for only adding it as an afterthought. I’m going to just make fun of both :).
By the way, introducing Xavier The UX Designer. ;)
(more...)Yes, you usually end up trying to put a more positive spin on it ;).
Update: made it a bit bigger (bigger is better, isn’t it? I just hate that the Cradle of Filth T-Shirt is not that easy to spot!).
(more...)I love how admins in big companies follow Travel Policy as if it was some kind of new-found faith that finally gave meaning to their lives. We all know travel implies insurance and other costs, but no matter how you look at it, it’s always overpriced. Best thing is that trying to change any of it looks to them like trying to change one of the 10 commandments.
Btw I decided to make the page a bit bigger. I was keeping it under 768 pixels for some weird reason but maybe it’s time I get into the new century.
(more...)This is one of the most effective methods for handling criticism inside a company!
It’s a kind of Pavlov conditioning.
This dictionary.com thing actually happened to us when someone was presenting the plan for one of the biggest projects I was involved in, back when we were younger and wild.
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Of course, this is in no way related to my day job experiences, it’s just speculation on how life must be for the poor souls that have to work in an environment where things like this could happen.
Honest.
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