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Subject:RE: Are You Annoying or Not? quiz From:"Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:34:00 -0600
> Lisa Wright wrote:
> >
> > My engineers like to toy with me this way:
> >
> > "I think it's broken. The application gave me an error when I clicked
> > Save."
> >
> > "Yes."
> >
> > They seem to find this especially amusing right before I have a training
> > class! Push code out, ask Lisa to test, agree solemnly that there seems
> > to be a problem.
>
> Translated, they like and respect you. Otherwise they wouldn't bother.
>
> Peter
If they're hoaxing you with special builds with error messages meant
just for you, I'd say that was definitely worth some egoboo points.
Not quite as many egoboo points as having a photo of you wearing
nothing but a bath towel hidden in an Easter Egg, though....
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e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III
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