The first rule of Work Club is...

There is a reason I don't talk about work very much here. I wish I could; I occasionally have experiences I'd like to remember in detail later on. And I probably could write about non-work stuff here during works hours. My company couldn't care less that I'd write here, as far as I can tell. But in the end, what I do wouldn't be too interesting for any else but me (and only then a few years later, when the fresh, higher-texture memories have popped the old ones off the stack).

And writing about work stuff can come back to haunt you later. I learned that lesson once, and once is enough.

Hell, I don't even write about non-work stuff anymore because I'm such a pussy I haven't even hit this site from work. Not even once. I'm still probationary (until the middle of March), and assume that all outbound Net access is logged. I work for a log analysis company. I'd log Net traffic for new hires, so I assume they would too. So when get home at 7pm, the last thing I want to do is recall some funny web site I saw -- which I likely wouldn't have seen in the first place (viz.: my unwillingness to browse non-work related websites, my general paranoia about being new, my desire to get lots done to impress the new boss, etc.).

Anyway, I've been hugely busy lately. I got hired for and put on a fairly high-profile project, one I'm solely responsible for, and so I've been wanting to get it done before it was needed. As it happens, I got it put into production just today. We'll see if it runs successfully tonight. If so, I'm going to be getting it done a lot earlier than it was needed, and can talk to the other engineers and find out what else I can do to help them.

But no detailed work talk. No good can come of it.

Comments for: The first rule of Work Club is...

...Unless you happen to see some footage of someone you know getting a little spankin!

Posted by E at February 14, 2005 8:24 AM

E: you are a pesky monkey.

Posted by Tess at February 14, 2005 1:34 PM

ah, good times. I should go back and read the '01 musings. prolly some good shit there. you know, part of me misses '00 quite a bit. we did some good work then. too bad '01 sucked dick as badly as it did, at least so far as 'work' went.

Posted by t at February 16, 2005 9:58 PM

What t said. And who wants to read, for fun, about work? "Dear Diary: Got a new box of paperclips today." More BBQ postings, I say.

Posted by T. at February 18, 2005 3:34 AM

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