Laurie Sefton

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“Best performing Dow Jones stock index, YTD: Brewing. So, beer really *is* recession-proof!”

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“@glenc You think Hallmark makes a card for that?”

21 hours ago - Link

“@chuq Oh, that's *great* placement.”

21 hours ago - Link

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“Searching for "Tommy Lasorda" on Google produces a "you're a virus, aren't you?" error message from Google. Giants fans write that code?”

23 hours ago - Link

“I figure that those $90/125 seats come with a promise that Tommy Lasorda will *not* follow you home.”

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“Hands up anyone who was aware of the "Silver Slugger" award before the previous post. Thought so.....”

November 13 at 3:19 pm - Link

“Carlos Zambrano won the Louisvile Slugger "Silver Slugger", given to the best hitting pitcher in the National League.”

November 13 at 3:17 pm - Link

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“And the title of the email about enforced PTO? "Seizing the Opportunity" Okay, so who is seizing *what* here?”

November 13 at 12:28 pm - Link

“I'm waiting for the first to lose 6 days of PTO because they had hard deadlines, get laid off after ship and told they owe those days”

November 13 at 12:23 pm - Link

“From execs--we'll have 3 days PTO deducted in Nov and Jan each even if we don't use it.”

November 13 at 12:21 pm - Link

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“New Jersey Nets collect resumes from unemployed fans, and will distribute among Nets advertisers: http://is.gd/7m3s”

November 13 at 9:32 am - Link

“"How bad is the economy?" Dept: Boston Red Sox *didn't* raise ticket prices for the first time in a number of seasons.”

November 13 at 9:25 am - Link

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“I'm wondering if going to Spring Training is going to fall off a lot of vacation schedules in 2009.”

November 12 at 4:19 pm - Link

“Spring training ticket info starting to appear. Two new stadiums: Goodyear for Cleveland, and Glendale for Dodgers.”

November 12 at 4:18 pm - Link

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“Seriously glad that the yutzes giving economic advice on WGN Radio don't do this for a living.”

November 12 at 1:47 pm - Link

“KHL says 5 of 49 players tested have heart problems. Bad genetics or bad testing? http://is.gd/7bjn”

November 12 at 1:16 pm - Link

“Sweet Lou National League Manager of the Year: http://is.gd/7b9r”

November 12 at 1:03 pm - Link

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“@davekellett partial cut: Scoring?”

November 11 at 5:25 pm - Link

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“Company to shut down US offices week of Thanksgiving, ROW shut down between Christmas and New Years, makes sure nada gets done either week.”

November 11 at 11:02 am - Link

Glen Campbell liked this

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“CEO says we have to save money, and the hot water in the building is suddenly gone. Hopefully not related.”

November 11 at 10:57 am - Link

Stupid Blogger (aka Tina) and Glen Campbell liked this

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“Wow, Keiretsu is actually being brought up as a strategy? I thought that term was at least 10 years out of date....”

November 11 at 10:11 am - Link

“At a too early meeting, from prod mgr to vendor : "What do you mean, you knew you had a massive bug in your code?"”

November 11 at 9:55 am - Link

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“Result of "network upgrade"--no one in bldg can get to web sites at other internal sites, and no one can get in, either. Nice job!”

November 10 at 10:09 am - Link

“Helpdesk told Sales as they already know of the problem, they're going to close the help request with "resolved". Fix the problem? Sorry!”

November 10 at 10:01 am - Link

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“@vicster it's as much a failure on the part of Corp-no prep, no due diligence. Heck, no RFC doc sent to vendors!”

November 6 at 5:09 pm - Link

“When the consultant asks if this is the tool you *really* need/want, it's time to step back and think about things.”

November 6 at 4:18 pm - Link

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“@Lileks My flu shot didn't hurt! Of course, they gave me a tetanus booster at the same time, so comparatively speaking....”

November 6 at 2:34 pm - Link

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“@vicster Somehow, the PMs didn't associate "stop using excel to track projects" with "use new Project Mgmt tool to track projects"”

November 6 at 1:25 pm - Link

“Just had a PM say "what do you mean we have to use the project management tool for project management?!?"”

November 6 at 1:16 pm - Link

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“re:new corporate time-tracking tool. Too bad I'm a Technical Program Manager, and I don't *do* any of these. No other choices available.”

November 6 at 10:44 am - Link

“New corporate tool that tracks time--it's 17 screens deep, and by screen 3 it's differentiating between coding, bug-fixing, and updating.”

November 6 at 10:42 am - Link

“@vlb Perhaps that's to a guest network or a secured internal network?”

November 6 at 10:38 am - Link

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“Just had our daily "The new tool doesn't do that" moment in the training class.”

November 5 at 3:47 pm - Link

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“Ultra-condensation of Yahoo exec team's memo to the troops: "rosebud...."”

November 5 at 10:56 am - Link

“I want to work in a building where my phone works!!! HW testers here are constantly blasting on non-shielded equipment.”

November 5 at 10:30 am - Link

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“Mitch Daniels projected as winner of governor's race in Indiana. Not a surprise.”

November 4 at 5:33 pm - Link

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“Note to Dr: if you want me to get my TDAP vaccine that badly, don't make me wait another 30 min to get it”

November 3 at 5:10 pm - Link

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“The problem with PTO vs vacation/sick time: corp cuts the total days off by 1/3, and people come in when they are sick to "save" their days.”

November 3 at 11:46 am - Link

“Whole office sounds like a TB ward. Problem--office has sounded like this for weeks. Are we swapping viruses with other offices?”

November 3 at 11:44 am - Link

“Twinkies to do "100 calorie pack". Um, yeah: http://is.gd/6dFH”

November 3 at 11:06 am - Link

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“@MitchWagner And how long have you had this interest in looking like Harry Caray?”

November 2 at 2:49 pm - Link

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“New comics.com web site stinks of "We get a big bonus if we launch by deadline".”

November 2 at 12:55 pm - Link

Mattie Kenny and Glen Campbell liked this

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“Mariners and Athletics first two teams to send out email about spring training ticket packages. I'm not surprised.”

October 31 at 6:04 pm - Link

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“Director sent "need this by EOD" msg 10 min before PMs were to be at all-day offsite launch party. Wins today's award for no people skills.”

October 31 at 12:58 pm - Link

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“About to tell developer and qa engineer to take it to the parking lot.”

October 28 at 3:40 pm - Link

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“Which organization has the worst exec team--Yahoo, or the San Francisco 49'ers? At least Jerry Yang doesn't *own* Yahoo.”

October 27 at 7:02 am - Link

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“@glenc boudin blanc? Taylor's Sausages in Oakland.”

October 25 at 4:24 pm - Link

Seriously? Wow, I'll have to trek up there some day.... - Glen Campbell

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“@vicster Pat Buchanan makes old Albertan Socreds run for cover.”

October 22 at 10:11 pm - Link

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