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Misc Monday and ranting
Jul. 29th, 2002 03:51 pmThe best news is that it has cooled off considerably. It's actually very comfortable outside and in the house. Whew. Maybe we're done with the heat. At least here in Seattle, you know that come Labor Day, you are absolutely done with the heat. In the South, I remember September as being so much more uncomfortable because it was as hot as August but you were sooooo tired of the heat by then. And there were years when October wasn't much better.
I discovered a couple of major (well, not all that major) errors on our external website today. Fixed 'em before anyone else (at least year) noticed. It took a couple of hours to get them all fixed and now they are done and I know how they break and not to do that again.
Perky... One of the guys here at work today was telling me that he ran into a woman we both used to work with (at another company). He couldn't think of her name and described her as 'short and perky with funky eyeglasses and she was a PM, I think'. We finally came up with the name and I howled. I would have described the same woman as 'really smart and sharp with not great hair and blue fingernails and one of the original employees - developer.'
I had already failed to connect her to his description but he said he probably would have gotten her from mine - although he said he didn't know there was anything wrong with her hair and he didn't know she had blue fingernails.
I said that the main thing about his description that threw me was perky. I consider perky to be pretty derogative and I know the woman in question would knee cap him if she heard him call her perky. He was shocked. He then went right to the web and looked up the definition of perky and couldn't find a single insulting or derogatory reference. But, he's a good engineer so he followed that up with a Google of perky and soon discovered what I was talking about.
But the really funny part is that we do have 2 women who work in this office who are truly perky - and I don't mean that in a nice way. While Matt and I were discussing perky, one of them walked by and very innocently he asked her if she would be insulted to be called perky. She looked at him through her batted eyelashes and squealed 'oh no! I'd be thrilled' (hear very high voice and much sincerity).
I thought it made my point rather well, actually and so did Matt.
I was wrong, I just got an email from the 3rd perky employee - she's actually a contractor and doesn't work in this office but out of her home in Texas. Her email said she couldn't find a logo I had requested but she found the contents of the article and she'd keep hunting for the logo. The contents of the article had the URL to the original web page which had the logo right on top. I think she doesn't understand URL's or web addresses in general. But she's very perky.
Deliver me.
I discovered a couple of major (well, not all that major) errors on our external website today. Fixed 'em before anyone else (at least year) noticed. It took a couple of hours to get them all fixed and now they are done and I know how they break and not to do that again.
Perky... One of the guys here at work today was telling me that he ran into a woman we both used to work with (at another company). He couldn't think of her name and described her as 'short and perky with funky eyeglasses and she was a PM, I think'. We finally came up with the name and I howled. I would have described the same woman as 'really smart and sharp with not great hair and blue fingernails and one of the original employees - developer.'
I had already failed to connect her to his description but he said he probably would have gotten her from mine - although he said he didn't know there was anything wrong with her hair and he didn't know she had blue fingernails.
I said that the main thing about his description that threw me was perky. I consider perky to be pretty derogative and I know the woman in question would knee cap him if she heard him call her perky. He was shocked. He then went right to the web and looked up the definition of perky and couldn't find a single insulting or derogatory reference. But, he's a good engineer so he followed that up with a Google of perky and soon discovered what I was talking about.
But the really funny part is that we do have 2 women who work in this office who are truly perky - and I don't mean that in a nice way. While Matt and I were discussing perky, one of them walked by and very innocently he asked her if she would be insulted to be called perky. She looked at him through her batted eyelashes and squealed 'oh no! I'd be thrilled' (hear very high voice and much sincerity).
I thought it made my point rather well, actually and so did Matt.
I was wrong, I just got an email from the 3rd perky employee - she's actually a contractor and doesn't work in this office but out of her home in Texas. Her email said she couldn't find a logo I had requested but she found the contents of the article and she'd keep hunting for the logo. The contents of the article had the URL to the original web page which had the logo right on top. I think she doesn't understand URL's or web addresses in general. But she's very perky.
Deliver me.
