I got an email the other day from this guy which he signed “TIA”. Here’s the email (basically):
From: Some Guy Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:31 PM To: Some List Subject: Looking for ride to a place
Hello, Commuters!
My destination is blah blah blah.
I can [...]
Here are two facts, which each seem obvious and inconsequential at first glance
the longer you work at a place, the more you deserve a nice office
the longer you work at a place, the more meetings you have (1)
Let’s assume that a person’s meetings mostly don’t happen in his office, since at least 1 participant will not [...]
Everyone keeps asking me what I do at work. I work for the client team (the program that runs on your computer) for Office Communiations Server. And now, you can see more: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/14/Microsoft_to_release_OCS_2007_update_in_February_1.html
Also: http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/default.aspx
Sorry for being busy recently. This is not really why, but sorry anyway.
Now that I have officially finished week 4 of work, I thought you might like a story. So…
Let me set the scene quickly; it is my second day on the job. I’m wobbly-footed, trying to find my place in this enormous company. I am getting fed information at 100 mph, and can barely remeber my [...]
At my job, I am about to start working on something that requires me to draw a little bit on a legal pad. I went to the mail room to pick up a pen, but out of the corner of my eye, saw a box of pencils just begging for attention. So, I picked up [...]
Today is the last day of my third week of work here at Microsoft. I’m in Redmond, WA, which is basically Seattle (I live in Seattle proper, to give an idea). I work for the Office Communicator team, which in simple terms is an IM client for businesses that focuses on business needs like Outlook [...]
Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Business Division Product Management Group, gave a lunch-time presentation and discussion today, detailing his experience with the Microsoft career ladder and ways to get ahead. He actually focused on the lack of a career ladder, and explained that there were no ways to get ahead, per se.
He [...]
Self Analysis
I’ve had two occasions for some formal self analysis in the past two days, and let me just say, man, that is tough. I consider myself on of the more introspective people around, but there’s introspection and there’s it’s closely related evil twin, self-deception. I always liked the idea of residual self image from the [...]