One view of the beginning of the end of that whole dot-com thingamajig.
May 02, 2001
Ah, well, the bubble had to burst sooner or later. The company let go 100 people today, 10 of them from this office. That sounds small...until you consider that we have about 50 people -=at=- this office.
Sorry. Make that “about 40” now.
There are times when I really like contract work. I can ignore office politics; I get more take-home pay; the benefits at this recruitment firm are rather competitive; and I live with my head on the chopping block, so having a contract terminated isn’t the traumatic affair that losing one’s regular/permanent employment is. I’ve become rather blase about the entire thing. It’s pretty normal now.
Still, it sucks. H.’s birthday was two days ago. How nasty is that? Hi, you’ve just had another birthday (which H. made something of a big deal out of), now you’re fired. Have a nice day.
The weather’;s nice today, but I’ll bet that it’s wasted on H. and the other nine people who just got axed.
Keywords: | work | dot-com burst |
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Governments trying to stop spam is like...governments trying to be efficient.
Apr 30, 2001
Spam. Mass-market advert blitz email shuttled directly into your mailbox. I hate it. You hate it. We all hate it.
Okay, except for maybe that one weirdo in Whoville who also, coincidentally, has a complete set of every catalogue ever sent out by Lillian Vernon™.
Would you believe that the US government is once again trying to do something about it? While that’s very admirable (actually they’re just putting on a show to pacify their grumpiest constituents), I think it will work about as well as gun control laws do at keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals. A completely new approach is called for here.
Keywords: | spam | laws | futility |
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The name is...what?!??
Apr 24, 2001
In the latest foofaraw with the incident between the Americans and the Chinese — the plane collision, the demand for an apology, that whole kerfuffle — it has been alleged that the Chinese pilot was hotdogging, and turned too close to the American craft — thus causing the collision and his own death.
It’s grimly amusing, then, that his name was Wang Wei (pronounced Wong Way).
Keywords: | language | international incidents | humor |
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