No air

There is no a/c in the office today and even though it isn’t hot out today, it is really hot in here and there is no air movement. In fact I think that they are sucking the air out of the office. I can barely keep my eyes open and I am starting to feel sick… argh.. no.. air… must… breath… arahhahahahdfgggjjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Developers CAN have a sense of humor!

I’m doing a little testing at work. I was checking form validation. I noticed it wasn’t checking postal codes if the user was from Canada. I asked a developer (who is from Canada) what format Canadian postal codes come in and he said: LetterNumberLetterNumberLetterNumber, so if you sent mail to Santa it would be H0H0H0. hehe.. so cute.

More QA Madness

Today my QA lead came by and said: “testing in FBuild is like taking the air out of the tire of a moving truck”.

hehehe. He needs a blog of his own. Or I can just continue to steal his material and put it here. It’s not wrong as long as I give him credit, right?

And the remaining developers are of questionable sanity

A woman at work is having a party this weekend and she sent out an email with logistics and what people could bring, etc. This is one of the developers responses (and this is a direct quote):

I could bring dynamite. :^)

The Titanic of technology projects?

I am beginning to think developers will do almost anything to get to the lifeboats escape our project. We’ve had 2 quit, not one but 2 have gone out on short term disability to have different surgeries, 1 is switching to a different technology group in our company and the best is that yesterday one used a truck to stop himself as he was rollerblading too fast and now may have a herniated disc. I tell him to be careful and wear protective gear but does he listen? no. He won’t wear protective gear because he doesn’t want to look like a geek (oh the irony! he is a developer and thus a geek by definition!). Deathwish boy. Anyway, none of this may sound that bad except for we only had 11 or 12 developers, so this is a fairly high % of defections. You had a higher % chance of getting off the Titanic alive than being a developer who makes it to the end of this project.

Riverdance

One of the projects I’m working on is in QA right now and things have been going a little rough. Our poor QA lead is close to the edge and maybe he has gone right over…
I was at my desk, on the phone when he came by and just starting asking me and the woman who sits next to me if we Riverdanced? We sort of looked at each other and said what?! He continues walking down the aisle. The next thing I see is him going up and down the aisle Riverdancing.. passing my cube back and forth.. It was the funniest thing I think I’d ever seen at work. Then he just went back to his desk and wasn’t heard from again for the rest of the day.

Oh the humiliation

Today I replied to an email sent to me by a a guy I work with. I admit, I was nitpicking what someone he had said. I wrote: I hate to be anal, but.. blah blah blah. Well, apparently I forgot the word “be” in the above sentence because he responded:
You hate to anal? That’s interesting info!

I’m still trying to come up with a witty retort, but words escape me.