Employees Suck

Post by sobriquet » Thu, Dec 11, 2008, 11:44 PM UTC

xiaoma wrote: post #18

sobriquet wrote: post #10

Does slideshare offer a printable version that just extracts all the text into paragraph form? While I was interested in the topic, about 30 slides in I got tired of clicking through the "presentation" and gave up. I'm getting tired of slides with huge text and no design. Makes me almost miss bullet point monotony!

I couldn't agree more. That's a terrible interface. If he had just put his thoughts on a web page I would have read them. By putting the onus on me to waste my time clicking over a hundred times and only feeding me a sentence or two per click, he just drove me off. Unless people who like clicking a lot while reading slowly are his target audience, this is a bad thing.

Post by basugasu » Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 2:23 AM UTC

donw wrote: post #20

patio11 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I choose, for the moment, to live here, in a little town I rather like, close to friends I rather like, attending a little church I rather like, etc. For better or worse, choosing to live here (or really, anywhere) generally means you get to work nearby as a package deal. I'm working on making that more of an a la carte selection. (Edit: Incidentally, I don't dislike my job. Parts of it are actually quite fun -- it h…

I'm curious as well as to where you live... and also, about your experiences doing software over in Japan. I've never really had the chance to live there for an extended period of time, but I'd like to give things a go in a year or two... just to get that nagging monkey off my back, and to do something different. Hopefully, the stack traces don't just read 'エラーが起きました。たいへん申し訳あります。' grin

Post by donw » Sat, Dec 13, 2008, 6:54 AM UTC

basugasu wrote: post #23

donw wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious as well as to where you live... and also, about your experiences doing software over in Japan. I've never really had the chance to live there for an extended period of time, but I'd like to give things a go in a year or two... just to get that nagging monkey off my back, and to do something different. Hopefully, the stack traces don't just read 'エラーが起きました。たいへん申し訳あります。' grin

I think you mean 申し訳ありません (inexcusable). Though I've tried using 申し訳あります (literally, there is an excuse) before as a joke to lighten the mood when apologizing. I'm not sure they got it.