I have finally accomplished something productive at work!
Yesterday I tracked down a bug that a first-semester coder should have caught, and quickly fixed it. That is, I spent 4 hours hunting it and 20 minutes fixing it.
For those familiar with coding, it was a character array over-run in a system reset service command.
For those not familiar with coding, it was like driving a bus full of screaming children through a drive-through ice cream shop manned by a college drop-out who can't write, and expecting him to remember 42 orders at once.
For those not familiar with ice cream shops, it was like eating too much cheesecake.
For those not familiar with eating too much cheesecake, may God have mercy on your soul.
Today's more exciting task was equivalent to teaching a child to say "Yes Ma'am" to older women, instead of screaming "WENCH!"
With any luck, tomorrow's task will have an equally diverting parallel.
My question for you, dear reader, is this. What social experience would you liken your otherwise technical/dry/impersonal job tasks to? Do they involve cheesecake? Why or why not?
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Posted by Moore at June 11, 2008 02:33 PM