See, as the popularity of MMORPG has risen, I'd found myself ridiculing those who were playing. My seemingly innocent jests regarding those passionate Warcraft folks was based on the fact I had no clue what this MMORPG thing was about, so I fell back on the easiest defense to ignorance... ridicule.
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"What, exactly, do you do?" After my usual thirty minutes of scrubbing and answering email, I did a quick check of tech news... taking a quick pulse of the planet... and then it's off to my first meeting. I'll explain why in great detail in my next piece, but first, I want more content.
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Mechanics hate this idea and they're constantly running around redefining process to make sure that, somehow, my Tony conversation occurs according to some master plan, but that's not happening... people are messy. Why am I not freaking out about 11 hour work days?
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The short answer is, "No". The longer answer is, "The team is moving far too fast for you to miss the various hallway conversations which randomly point us in different directions." It's team art. I'm ready to learn and that's today's question, "How do you, as a remote employee, stay in the loop?"
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Some of my earliest memories of hanging with the Dad were visits to the local hardware story, Orchard Supply Hardware. When you first look at it, you don't think, "Golly, which discussion group should I search?", you see everything that folks are talking about right this second.
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You are frustrated because you're busting your ass, but each time you walk by your boss's offices he's got his feet kicked up on the table, coffee in one hand, the other hand jumping hither'n'fro, and he's talking to some guy you don't know. Here's the deal: Your manager's job is not your job.
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They know when the layoff is coming, they know how to talk to senior management, but they don't know how to talk to you because you're actively, passionately doing something they're clueless about and they believe they have to maintain the appearance they know what they're doing.
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Two days later and the WWDC hangover is just about gone. I'd like to say the hangover was primarily booze-related, but it was a stress hangover. Like last year, I'll be gathering a pile of notable panelists from differing backgrounds to have it out on stage for everyone else's entertainment.
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