Marged
2041
Sorry boys, not a chance!
Apparently at reunion a week earlier, the same crowd went skinnydipping and an inebriated boyfriend was sitting on a nearby bench with a camera and there was lots of photographic evidence produced. This time we made everyone’s significant others take a hike.
Dude, you’re freaking me out.
But yes, I’m going to RAD.
I’m glad to hear it wasn’t my old place of work that I left a while ago(seeing how small this industry is).
Scrax
2044
So since we’re sharing and all, what place is that? =)
Went to the Dallas Farmer’s Market today. Fun walk even though it was warm.
AW YEAH! I can personally vouch for the fact that balut’s girlf^H^H^H^Hfiance is a really awesome girl, and that they make a great couple AND THAT I AM NOT IN THE LEAST SURPRISED. (I so called it)
This is pretty much it for me, except for the boxers thing, since we have a roommate. After three days of bachelor living, I am worn out, hungover and my sleep schedule is all messed up. And I have to relearn how to make dinner, since making food for 3 is a bit much for me to eat.
Same here. My partner takes a 2-week trip to visit her father every summer, and I tend not to do well on my own. My tradition is to see all those mediocre comedies she won’t see with me, so that kills some weekend time. I’m also hoping a buddy of mine whose wife is leaving town is gonna come up and spend the weekend, so that’ll be nice. But all in all, I do better with adult supervision.
Hooray! Guessed it!
I’m not stalking you or anything, they’ve just been ramping up (well, “ramping up” being relative to the fact that they are a small company) on the high level talent a bit recently and you seem like a fairly obvious fit there.
Won the Indiana State revolver title, beating a significant Master that came up from Tennessee, and also shot my first clean (no misses) match. Yay me!
H.
That is pretty cool. Congrats H.!!!
I’m getting married in Hawaii on Sunday!
…and also just realized that my Friday night flight out from Tokyo to Hawaii arrives Friday morning and not on Saturday morning. Time to book another night at the hotel…
Airtight Games.
When I left almost a month ago they were on manditory 7 day, 10 hour work weeks and that’s after I’d been crunching ~65+ hour weeks since mid-Dec with a couple 100’s for CES and some other stuff.
I walked out of that job on a week’s notice when I found my current gig out of the industry and couldn’t be happier. 60% bump in pay, actually have weekends and they allow working from home regularly. Plus it’s at a company that I’d always really liked the products they made(HTC).
It’s kinda been enlightening being out of the game industry and seeing companies treat people right. I’ve seen many marriages and relationships destroyed by some of the past projects I’ve worked on. It still blows my mind that companies think they can just walk all over people’s lives and get away with it. I understand a week or two of crunch here and there but by and large my experience with the game industry has been a mismanaged clusterfuck.
Nope, sorry. I was working this match as well, and was just too busy to video.
H.
It’s because people let them get away with it. Most in the Industry are too young and inexperienced to know better.
Also they have that “passion” otherwise Mike Capps wouldn’t hire them (sorry, I had to).
I’ve never been in an hhgregg department store but one opened a few months ago nearby. We went to look at LCD TVs for my mother in law. Didn’t really plan on buying anything but “she heard” about some great deal that of course didn’t materialize.
The salesman was one of the worst I have seen. Didn’t know the products, kept leaving us to go in the back to check on stock and try to get a better sales price, as if it was a used car lot. I finally told him we weren’t interested and started to corral the family toward the door, and he kept yapping his really weak sales tactics while our backs were turned toward him. He looked so pathetic I almost wanted to just give him 20 bucks. Business must be pretty bad.
A few months ago I was working with some of the software testers from our QA group and saw that they were putting in some appallingly huge amounts of manual effort to set up our rather complex product into convoluted edge case configurations in order to execute some test cases. It was working out to more than an hour of manual configuration labor per test case executed in one regression suite. Horrified I ran off and spent a couple of days writing some test tools for them that could capture system state, store it as a XML file, and then later load the XML and restore the system to that state. This let them very easily set up their weird configurations in a repeatable and reliable manner for their test cases. They thanked me mightily as I’d just saved them a ton of time and went off about their business.
A week later I was doing a new feature product demo for our biggest client and I was using my new test tool to rapidly shift the demo system config so I could show them different features and scenarios. They were only lukewarm on the new features but seemed quite interested in the test tool as they too spent huge gobs of time integration testing and validating the product before they’d go to production with it. I gave them my copy and told them to consider it a demo. It wasn’t a formal product my company offered, after all, it was just a set of scripts I’d whipped up in a couple of days.
What I didn’t know until later was that the clients wandered off with the demo and showed it to their testers who loved it. The testers (mistakenly) assumed it was a tool that they bought and would be using on all future releases for testing. So these testers laid out firm schedules for the next three quarters of integration testing assuming they would have the speed and productivity gains from my test tool.
A week ago the clients inquired of me as to where to get the newest version of this tool, the one compatible with the newest releases of my company’s product. I quickly involved the head of our sales dept and we conferred and offered them some outlandish price for a license. This morning, they accepted without counteroffer or any haggling on the price. Then they told us the story of how their testers had grown reliant on it and needed the tool badly to avoid blowing up three quarters worth of testlab scheduling.
So a simple tool I designed, developed, tested, and marketed to the client all on my own initiative resulted in a surprisingly large amount of revenue. I can’t cite specifics, but it was enough revenue to purchase any imported luxury car one might be interested in.
For a day of conference calls and emails and writing up a quote, our head of sales is getting a commission worth multiple thousands of dollars. For my part I’m getting $100 and a certificate of appreciation.
That seems a tad bit unfair to me, so I’ve decided to be bitter and surly today.
