Recent Comments

1. about 4 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   More people need to reply to this kind of bullshit with “Nope. Next question?”

2. over 4 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Sounds like where I used to work. Whatever the business requirement, IT’s response was to create a Lotus Notes database.

3. over 4 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Access is great for amateurs like me, because you can bolt together a working app quickly without coding, as long as you don’t want to do anything fancy. Had much more fun writing actual code in Clipper back in the days of DOS, but that was when databases were sort-of part of my job.

4. over 4 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Looking things up can get you into trouble. Many years ago, I was editing a document that mentioned the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Only the author had referred to them by their acronym. We have a rule that all acronyms must be explained the first time they’re used in a document. So as the editor, it was my job to find out what the acronym stood for and add the explanation. This was in the days when organizations tended to block “inappropriate” searches, and it took me a while to get IT to unblock this one.

5. almost 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Only been a temp once, doing data entry at Condé Nast in NYC, and everyone was really friendly. Guess it has a lot to do with the general culture at a company.

6. almost 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   The correct answer is “Fuck you. The project just won’t get done. Suck it up, loser.”

   But no-one gives the correct answer.

7. about 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Leaving aside the fact she’s dressed as a caricature lesbian, she’d be my kind of girl. I find an interest in technology and a degree of pedantry sexy.

   Yeah, I’m weird.

   However, she would have had to at least pretend to find humour in my rather lame response of “It’s not the size that counts, it’s what you do with it”.

8. about 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   Once had a temp job in a factory, cleaning metal boxes before they were spray-painted. It was so boring that me and another guy volunteered to clean the (filthy) men’s toilets rather than do our own job.

9. about 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

   None of us could ever remember the code so we ended up writing it on the wall next to the copier. Problem solved.

10. about 5 years ago on Dilbert Classics

    “I’m the most attractive female who has paid attention to you this year.”

    Dilbert: “This is correct, but today is January 2.”