Posts Tagged “wage slavery”

13 Feb: Train Of The Damned

[I’ll prob­a­bly end up deliv­er­ing this onstage either tomor­row or next week.]
It’s 9:28 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Slaving away for machines
Which do our think­ing for us
Which is what this is all about…
Evolution…
It’s 9:32 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Soon to be board­ing
A motly crew of the dam­aged
Is crowd­ing me in the wait­ing room
What if I stay perfectly […]

14 Nov: Whee

A few months ago, I was sup­posed to get some help on my job. Specifically, some­one to work on the .NET side of things, which would free me up to do the job I was actu­ally hired to do: PHP devel­op­ment. He wasn’t my first choice, but he was sec­ond, in large part because of […]

25 Oct: Micromanaged Zombies

I come into the office early this morn­ing, in the hopes of get­ting a head start on the back­log I’ve got:

Finish refac­tor of My First PHP Project to take advan­tage of what I’ve learned since I wrote it, be doc­u­mented, and gen­er­ally just stop suck­ing.
Add needed fea­tures, like an XML-RPC inter­face.
Switch to sub­ver­sion for MFPP.
Put sub­ver­sion on […]

17 Jun: Re: Class?

Comments are busted at Ms. Aniston’s blog (it com­plains about a miss­ing captcha, except there’s nowhere on the page to enter it), so I’ll throw my answer to her ques­tion here:
One pos­si­ble method of determing class is to use sta­tion in the hier­ar­chy as a met­ric. If you have a boss, and you have people […]

16 Jun: Hell Motherfucking Yeah…

…or:
     That’s some nice quote­whorin’, Lou.
Watching non-programmers try­ing to run soft­ware com­pa­nies is like watch­ing some­one who doesn’t know how to surf try­ing to surf.
“It’s ok! I have great advi­sors stand­ing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again.Joel on Software, My First BillG Review