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Mad ramblings whenever I feel like it….

Browsing in Work

Ozone, one of my Twitter mates just asked me if where I work is really like this video - and the answer is yes.

So yup, that’s my worklife… Except that we grew out of grey colours after the first few buildings, and cubicles in Ireland are usually a bit bigger, but shared. I’m one of the lucky ones, I have a double cube all to myself!

Do you identify with that video? If so, you’ll probably laugh at some of these:

  1. blamestorming: A group process where participants analyze a failed project and look for scapegoats other than themselves.
  2. Death by Tweakage: When a product or project fails due to unnecessary tinkering or too many last-minute revisions.
  3. BMWs: Bitchers, Moaners and Whiners.
  4. clockroaches: Employees who spend most of their day watching the clock — instead of doing their jobs
  5. plutoed: To be unceremoniously dumped or relegated to a lower position without an adequate reason or explanation.
  6. prairie dogging: A modern office phenomenon. Occurs when workers simultaneously pop their heads up out of their cubicles to see what’s going on.
  7. carbon-based error: Error caused by a human, not a computer (which we assume would be a silicon-based error).
  8. adminisphere: The upper levels of management where big, impractical, and counterproductive decisions are made.
  9. deja poo: The feeling that you’ve stepped in this bull before.
  10. bobbleheading: The mass nod of agreement by participants in a meeting to comments made by the boss even though most have no idea what he/she just said.
  11. ringtone rage: The violent response by cube mates after hearing your annoying cell phone ringtone for the 15th time.

Normally I don’t mention who I work for, as all opinions on the blog are my own and not my employers. But when the vid below and associated press releases started circulating around the blogosphere, I just had to post about them…

The "Quad Core" chopper, created by Orange County Choppers for Intel.

See Josh Bancroft’s blog and the Intel Software blog for more information (and bigger pictures)….

Certainly to be filed under the ‘IWOOT’ (I Want One Of Those) category - drool…