We have the Hank police!

Sometimes, you just hear things and think no f*ing way. Sure every company monitors emails and IM's or at least logs them. You know some harassment case comes up, fight over intellectual property, blah-blah-blah. The thing is, this normally get stuck on a bunch of disks, tapes or CD's and shipped off to Iron Mountain... just in case.

So I don't believe this, but apparently Henry has somebody up in Tracy or Modesto or some other hole in the central valley. Guess what they do? All they do is read other people's email and IM's the whole day. What are they looking for?

Well, my guess when I was talking to the Ops guys was anything security related, you know we have credit cards a shit like that in the database. Perhaps protecting our IP.

No. Ops dude says that all he looks for is references to Henry and whether anybody is talking shit about him, his women or his executive team. Henry gets a daily report. If you appear you are out of the door that day. Its some kind of totall weird I'm-not-a-communitsit-I-love-free-trade-but-talk-shit-and-you-are-in-the-gulag type of thing.

I love Henry, but that shit is totally f*ked up. It can't possibly be true.

This weeks food and drink
Beer : 6 bottles (up one from last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequila (up 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x pizza, 4 x Una Mass)
Weight : 169 lbs

Awesome, lets all get electric staplers!

I totally get why I can't order Eclipse. Can-I-Have-A-Latte-Sir sent me over to the IT and Ops guys. I think he wanted to have a fun and watch them beat me down. I'm sure he's bi-polar or something else weird.

So the long and short of it, I get dressed down for asking to spend money to improve my productivity. Not only that, DJ the VP of Site Ops at the company meeting then gave this long horsewhipping about spending money. How we need to stop using Microsoft Office and buy Electric Staplers on Ebay. I was confused until somebody said it was a joke. It was something about how one of those costs the same of Microsoft Office and why would anybody want either. So, I dig it. I never got Microsoft Office, I got OpenOffice (which is cool) but all I wanted for Christmas was IntelliJ.

I got so busted in the company meeting on a different front. Could not help myself, but got caught casting an eye over "her". I think Henry has me down as a marked man. I avoided talking to him at the beer bash afterwards.

This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (up three from last week)
Shots : 0 x Bourbon (down 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (4 x pizza, 1 x Una Mass)
Weight : 168 lbs

Eclipse is totally bogus!

I try so hard, every hour of every day of every week of every month. Startups can be tough, something like counting your pennies or something.

But, Eclipse is totally bogus. I mean, I get the whole open source, its free, just use it "as is". But dude, its like my time is totally not free. Where's the refund on my hours when I spend 30 minutes figuring out that I don't get that feature or the feature works different if I change my perspective.

I've heard Henry's rally call and it totally makes sense. Don't spend money we don't need to, we have to preserve cash in order that Henry can wine and dine the movers and shakers in New York and Charlotte, NC. But Eclipse? I've got to say, I'm tempted to get out my credit card and just buy IntelliJ myself. It makes my blood boil each time I see the friggin' oh-so-1997 splash screen.... grrrrr. I think I need to go to the gym just to cool off. And just how friggin' bogus is that?

This weeks food and drink
Beer : 3 bottles (down 2 from last week)
Shots : 2 x Tequilla (down 2 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (1 x pizza, 1 x Indian, 3 x Una Mass)
Weight : 166 lbs

My boss sucks (again)!

Can-I-Have-A-Latte-Sir really got on my nerves this week. I've been working on a complex design, so have been building prototypes just to make sure I do it right. Then he comes by and says what I have done it a pile of shit and how I'm completely worthless. You know, it really gets me down. I have total respect for him, the rest of his team love him, but I really think he has an inflated ego or just has poor self-esteem. I was trying to use components right out of the open-source box, then BAM. He makes we totally re-write things to "preserve our IP". This is totally bogus, but I did it anyway.

I love this company and will do everything to make it successful, but boy, they make it tough for somebody as smart as me to be successful!

This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (same as last week)
Shots : 4 x Bourbon (down 4 from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x pizza)
Weight : 166 lbs

Where have the bagels gone!

At first I thought that I was just unlucky. You know those creative and marketing types. Dressed in the too cool 80's game t-shirts and army pants, they are first to the poppy seed bagels when they are not spending the morning making their third double iced latte. You have to be totally committed to get a poppy seed bagel around here. I mean, like, get there before 10.30am on "Bagel Thursdays".

Last week I just about managed to get the last one by beating down "legs" from Finance, but this week... the horror of it all.

I get there at 9.45am. I'm totally going to get a poppy seed bagel this time. I'm so ahead of the game here. I get to the kitchen, first shock is Noah's (otherwise known as bread-with-a-hole-disappointment-its-not-a-bagel). Second shock, they have ordered some kind of artisan shit, with all sorts of crazy stuff in them. Wow! This is so uncool. Hank Commerce is changing before my eyes.

Big rumors is that our VPE and Henry have been out shopping. Some people are talking companies, other are talking a new management team. I hear from the old timers that we get a new management team every 18 months, so this could be my first big change!

This weeks food and drink
Beer : 5 bottles (3 up from last week)
Shots : 8 x Bourbon (6 up from last week)
Dinner : 5 nights (5 x pizza)
Weight : 165 lbs