A little fun
Nov. 20th, 2007 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaYay! Not my company but still great! http://www.vimeo.com/173714/
I know a lot of my friends resent us tech geeks because we can do stuff like this.
I guess that kind of riles me on some level it's sort of the "If I can't play with toys, I'll break them so the other kids can't have them." mentality.
It IS unfair that we can do this and you can't but it's not the fault of our workplaces that we can do this and you can't, it's the fault of the company you work for. If anything, companies like mine are showing miserable bastard companies that, weird and creative people also tend to be quite profitable. Let someone be happy and self-confident at work and they feel more comfortable spending time there, they get more done and are more productive because they aren't sitting there thinking, "I can't wait to get out of this goddamned oppressive Hell Hole."
So... Embrace us! We are change and we are the future. The writing is on the wall for the stuffed shirts and it says, "Evolve or become extinct."
Um. Also... Enjoy the nerds! ^_^
I know a lot of my friends resent us tech geeks because we can do stuff like this.
I guess that kind of riles me on some level it's sort of the "If I can't play with toys, I'll break them so the other kids can't have them." mentality.
It IS unfair that we can do this and you can't but it's not the fault of our workplaces that we can do this and you can't, it's the fault of the company you work for. If anything, companies like mine are showing miserable bastard companies that, weird and creative people also tend to be quite profitable. Let someone be happy and self-confident at work and they feel more comfortable spending time there, they get more done and are more productive because they aren't sitting there thinking, "I can't wait to get out of this goddamned oppressive Hell Hole."
So... Embrace us! We are change and we are the future. The writing is on the wall for the stuffed shirts and it says, "Evolve or become extinct."
Um. Also... Enjoy the nerds! ^_^
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Date: 2007-11-20 11:58 pm (UTC)1) That's pretty neat, and I'm happy you get to do stuff like that too!
2) I can't really bitch at all, personally - I get paid less, but I also have far less pressure and still get to screw around at work with a bunch of weirdos. :)
3) Thanks for saying it's unfair. That really does mean a lot to me.
4) I think the main reason I ever get pissed about this stuff, honestly, is the same reason I get pissed when I compare my mom's schoolteacher salary to that of an NBA player. What you're doing at Linden is pretty freakin' cool from a sociological standpoint, and I can justify it as Good For Society... but I can't help mistrusting the economic rules that reward that compared to, say, environmental science. But that really and truly ain't your fault, any more than it's my fault Microsoft didn't lock its cabinets when I worked there as an orange badge with no benefits, right? O;)
Okay, I had to get that one bit of passive-aggressiveness out there, but it's directed at Gates, not you. :)