Jay McGavren's Journal

There are “organizational changes” going on upstairs within IT - a lot of management types have been sacked, and the grunts could be next. I’m still safe down here in my department, but I’m worried my opportunity will evaporate before my eyes… Well, as long as certain key individuals are spared the axe, my name will still be known upstairs.

But I wish I had my degree under my belt, so I didn’t need to tie my fate to this one company…

At work chomping on an orange that came from a tree in a backyard, not a supermarket. Sometimes living in the desert can be cool…

Changed my first diaper this weekend. :P And before my friends start to worry, just because I’m turning responsible doesn’t mean I’m turning mature. :)

My project manager is originally from India (I think), and while his English is quite good, it’s not perfect… He was planning to call me later, so he told me he’d “give me a tinkle”. :P

That was funny, but communicating with the Chinese guy on our team is definitely not - his accent makes him really hard to understand, it takes him forever to get a point across in meetings, and the XML specification he made for us recently (which we’ll have to publish to customers eventually) was riddled with misspellings.

These are both really smart people, but there is definitely a language barrier.

Welcome to the world of international business. :P

I kid you not… The program I’m analyzing contains the following line of code:

set you_smell 'Y'

I think that’s supposed to indicate that there’s a problem with the system connection. Of course, in other places they indicate that with the “hosed_ua” variable.

I want to go upstairs and inflict serious bodily harm on the person who wrote this unreadable crap…