Category: work

  • Wait, Wait, How Many?

    Wait, Wait, How Many?

    It’s easy to get the number of unread emails under 10, the real trick is keeping it there …and not just by deleting everything as it comes in.

  • How To Make Partner

    How To Make Partner

    It would be nice to take credit for coming up with this joke, but I really didn’t add anything.

  • Never Speak of This

    Never Speak of This

    In retrospect having take-your-kid-to-work-day scheduled during the school year only makes it that much cooler: you also get to skip school!

  • Less Terrible

    Less Terrible

    Inspired by an exchange that happened some years back. Surely we’ve percent-by-percented our way to better meetings by now, right?

  • Stand Up Guy

    Stand Up Guy

    But then, as I was reminded last week: the shorter you are the more places you can hide in for hide-and-seek.

  • Niche Issues

    Niche Issues

    Hopefully it’s not too much of a commentary on my ability to call the right person. I at least feel a bit better when it is not something obvious and other people also don’t have any idea what’s going on.

  • As Soon As I Close My Eyes

    As Soon As I Close My Eyes

    I often find myself having trouble sleeping while on-call expecting that alert to happen at any moment. How annoying to be the one responsible for messing up my own sleep when nothing happens.

  • LAMP Shade

    LAMP Shade

    This was based on a conversation overheard soooo many years ago

  • So Retro

    So Retro

    On the plus side, people assume I know a lot of stuff because I’ve been around a while, and I actually know a lot of stuff! On the other hand, now I can apparently sleep “wrong” once and then I can’t turn my head for a week.

  • Full Circle

    Full Circle

    This feels like a good time for a reminder that these comics are inspired by real life, and not meant to be taken as an accurate representation of real people and events.