• XML Hater (unregistered)

    What's a 7 letter word for a process of checking software before deploying.... hmmmmm

    first?

  • (cs)

    There should have been an option "Print a hard copy, put it on a wooden table,..."

  • HP1755 (unregistered)

    At first I thought this was about my company when you mentioned the crossword. We had that as a "fun" activity in a recent mandatory training session.

  • CynicalTyler (unregistered)

    What's a five letter word beginning with 'f' that is 'a common way to demonstrate that you're a jackass'.

    Oh yeah 'first'. ;)

    Seriously though. Need more technical detail here. At least make the story a little juicier and say that all the crossword submissions showed up as FileNotFound.

  • (cs) in reply to HP1755

    Reminds me of a recent Office episode about racism. Mike had everyone put a 3.5" card on their foreheads, each with an ethnicity (Jew, Black, Jamaican, etc) and they were supposed to treat each other like the ethnicity. And yes

    Yeah...

  • (cs)

    Sounds like they sorely need to actually try this "PROCESSIMPROVEMENT" that they're talking about.

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered)

    Oh dear. Let me guess: it was a substitute for actual ISO 9001 training? I'm seeing more and more companies do that -- create fun (aka "stupid") little games on the premise of making training fun, when in fact what they're doing is avoiding having people charge to the training budget. While they are indeed cheaper (and arguably more fun, though this is often debatable) than actual training, they are much less useful.

    Of course, the blessing is that it means you don't have to sit through exactly the same ISO 9001 lecture you sat through last year. But the flip side is that the company really isn't making sure you know what ISO 9001 is or how it's implemented, which could come back to haunt them at the audit. At the very least, it suggests they're not really getting any benefit out of implementing the standard; when training is reduced to knowing the answers to a few stock questions, it kind of suggests that while ISO 9001 may be fully implemented at your company, it probably has very little actual relationship to the daily work, making the whole exercise rather pointless.

  • nobody (unregistered)

    Forget rpoofreading your memo, QI... it's ENTRIES, not ENTRY'S.

    Somehow I think that the ISO process at this company is probably doomed from the start...

  • (cs) in reply to nobody
    nobody:
    Forget rpoofreading your memo, QI... it's ENTRIES, not ENTRY'S.

    Is it REALLY!? The article didn't reference that mistake IN ANY WAY!

  • 0x15e (unregistered)

    I would've completely strangled someone by the third time I read "entry's." I'm just like that. It's fortunate no one was in my office just now.

  • Patrick (unregistered)
    If you have questions, please contact one of the three CI consultants: ----------, ----------, or ----------.

    Maybe this guy is one of the consultants.

    CAPTCHA: waffles - yummy!

  • nobody (unregistered) in reply to zip

    Look up, the joke is prolly going over your hed.

  • <insert cool name here> (unregistered) in reply to mdk
    mdk:
    There should have been an option "Print a hard copy, put it on a wooden table,..."

    HAHA. I acutally expected that option to be available :P

  • snoofle (unregistered) in reply to <insert cool name here>

    Perhaps they are working in this environment?

  • (cs) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Perhaps they are working in this environment?
    Sorry about the first post - our systems automatically flush the cache (I think it's a security thing to keep viruses from spreading - don't ask), and I keep getting auto-signed off...truly worse than failure...
  • (cs)

    Im sure they're entry's we're great.

    Grammar machine explodes

  • (cs)

    I would be tempted to fill the crossword with profanity and fax it in anonymously.

  • brian (unregistered) in reply to JamesKilton
    JamesKilton:
    Reminds me of a recent Office episode about racism. Mike had everyone put a 3.5" card on their foreheads, each with an ethnicity (Jew, Black, Jamaican, etc) and they were supposed to treat each other like the ethnicity. And yes

    Yeah...

    By recent do you mean 2 years ago?

  • Xworder (unregistered) in reply to XML Hater

    It is fun, though, to think of people yelling "What's a three letter word that starts with 'B' and is something we're supposed to think outside of?" between cubicles.

    Hmmm... Bed, bin (as in recycle), BBQ, Bic (as in pen), bod (astral projection?), bid, BMP, ... There are so many possibilities that I couldn't fit them in a box!

    People hate it when you find words that fit the grid but weren't what they wanted you to fill in. ;-)

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered)

    I'd just send this in

  • (cs) in reply to nobody
    nobody:
    Forget rpoofreading

    Apparently that's a common problem. ;)

  • trianglman (unregistered)

    Everyone knows that the best way to test a product is through the users. It makes for faster deployments too. How else are you supposed to keep up with your quota of bug fixes per month...

  • peter (unregistered)

    I think I know the names of the "three CI consultants" - Bob, Bob, and Bob.

  • Mark (unregistered)

    I get to wear Hawaiian shirts to work almost every day. What's wrong with that? :^)

  • maht (unregistered) in reply to nobody

    QI... it's ENTRIES, not ENTRY'S.

    Is each of the entry's spelling like that ?

  • Scooby (unregistered)

    Damm they're behind the times ... couldn't have at least been a CI soduku?

  • SomeCoder (unregistered) in reply to JamesKilton
    JamesKilton:
    Reminds me of a recent Office episode about racism. Mike had everyone put a 3.5" card on their foreheads, each with an ethnicity (Jew, Black, Jamaican, etc) and they were supposed to treat each other like the ethnicity. And yes

    Yeah...

    My company actually did this.... and not as a joke. They seriously had us do this with the belief it would help against prejudice and such.

    Yes, it was just as retarded as in the show.

  • al (unregistered)
    Keeping employee morale up is a hard thing to do, so businesses do their best to keep spirits up. Maybe a company picnic, maybe you get to wear a Hawaiian shirt to work one day (thanks, soulless employer, I've always wanted to look like a total boob in a Hawaiian shirt), or perhaps a game of friendly competition.

    In the interests of one-upsmanship, my last employer gave out hawaiian t-shirts to all employees to wear to a company picnic. I guess they wanted our morale to be really high.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    I get to wear Hawaiian shirts to work almost every day. What's wrong with that? :^)

    Nothing... if you work in Hawaii.

  • XML Hater (unregistered) in reply to CynicalTyler
    CynicalTyler:
    What's a five letter word beginning with 'f' that is 'a common way to demonstrate that you're a jackass'.

    Oh yeah 'first'. ;)

    Seriously though. Need more technical detail here. At least make the story a little juicier and say that all the crossword submissions showed up as FileNotFound.

    At least I read the article before posting (this time)... :-)

  • (cs)

    I wonder if anyone bought the CI team some Linguo Robots....

    Lisa: If you misuse language, he'll correct you! Homer: Well, lets put him to the test! Me love beer! Linguo: I love beer! Homer: Hey! He loves beer! Here little fellah! Linguo: ERROR! Homer: I'm sorry, I thought he was a party robot.
  • bobbo (unregistered) in reply to zip
    zip:
    nobody:
    Forget rpoofreading your memo, QI... it's ENTRIES, not ENTRY'S.

    Is it REALLY!? The article didn't reference that mistake IN ANY WAY!

    Hooray for scan-reading! I just hope that 'rpoofreading' was deliberate.

    I'm fairly new around here, but already I find myself irked by the following posting habits:

    1. 'First' or 'Fist'
    2. 'CAPTCHA: idiocy'
    3. People not reading stuff
  • (cs) in reply to bobbo
    bobbo:
    zip:
    nobody:
    Forget rpoofreading your memo, QI... it's ENTRIES, not ENTRY'S.

    Is it REALLY!? The article didn't reference that mistake IN ANY WAY!

    Hooray for scan-reading! I just hope that 'rpoofreading' was deliberate.

    I'm fairly new around here, but already I find myself irked by the following posting habits:

    1. 'First' or 'Fist'
    2. 'CAPTCHA: idiocy'
    3. People not reading stuff

    Get ready to hate wooden tables, too.

  • (cs)

    It reminds me of the old joke -- "the extra 'k' stands for quality."

  • AnonymousCoward (unregistered)

    Just pray that your organization doesn't make you go through the insanity that is FISH.

  • rien (unregistered) in reply to zip
    zip:
    nobody:
    Forget rpoofreading your memo, QI... it's ENTRIES, not ENTRY'S.

    Is it REALLY!? The article didn't reference that mistake IN ANY WAY!

    what ? no reference ??? this article does not comply to ISO then ! it needs a bit of PROCESSIMPROVEMENT...

    capcha: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (just kidding... fortunately)

  • (cs) in reply to AnonymousCoward
    AnonymousCoward:
    Just pray that your organization doesn't make you go through the insanity that is FISH.

    Do you mean this? FISH!

    If so, that's the most retarded thing I've heard. Here's a thought, maybe employees will have fun if your company isn't run like a parody of "Office Space", hmm?

    Addendum (2007-04-12 18:29): Oh, you're kidding me. I can't actually edit this and take out the html tags I included?

  • (cs) in reply to Volmarias
    Volmarias:
    AnonymousCoward:
    Just pray that your organization doesn't make you go through the insanity that is FISH.

    Do you mean this? FISH!

    If so, that's the most retarded thing I've heard. Here's a thought, maybe employees will have fun if your company isn't run like a parody of "Office Space", hmm?

    Addendum (2007-04-12 18:29): Oh, you're kidding me. I can't actually edit this and take out the html tags I included?

    If it makes you feel any better, I use Linkification, so the link worked fine for me.

    (You'll want to use BBCode next time.)

  • (cs) in reply to cconroy
    cconroy:
    Mark:
    I get to wear Hawaiian shirts to work almost every day. What's wrong with that? :^)

    Nothing... if you work in Hawaii.

    Or California or Arizona, or anywhere else you'd hear gnarly used. Hey, so do I. =p

  • (cs)

    mmm, entrees. My supervisor sometimes wears Hawaiian shirts to work. But we're pretty casual here, not being Enterprisey, being more related to scientific and industrial research... We're so casual that I... ought to get back to work

  • AnonymousCoward (unregistered) in reply to Volmarias

    Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. A previous employer held a FISH! seminar and then pounded us over the head with the philosophies, launching many initiatives aimed at improving morale. I already hated my job and quit three weeks later.

  • chan (unregistered)

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  • kun (unregistered) in reply to SomeCoder
    SomeCoder:
    JamesKilton:
    Reminds me of a recent Office episode about racism. Mike had everyone put a 3.5" card on their foreheads, each with an ethnicity (Jew, Black, Jamaican, etc) and they were supposed to treat each other like the ethnicity. And yes

    Yeah...

    My company actually did this.... and not as a joke. They seriously had us do this with the belief it would help against prejudice and such.

    Yes, it was just as retarded as in the show.

    Details or it didn't happen.

  • Jones (unregistered)

    Method 4: Make sure that your trash can isn't anywhere near to your computer, fill in the crossword puzzle again, and then try resending it.

  • dkf (unregistered) in reply to HP1755
    HP1755:
    At first I thought this was about my company when you mentioned the crossword. We had that as a "fun" activity in a recent mandatory training session.
    Round here, they'd go for a wordsearch instead, as even a simple crossword is "too challenging"...
  • (cs) in reply to dkf

    A little off topic, but does anyone know what the name of kind of puzzle is where you are given a cross-word-like grid and a list of words that go in the grid but no clues to where they go? I used to like those.

  • (cs) in reply to Jake Vinson
    Jake Vinson:
    bobbo:

    Hooray for scan-reading! I just hope that 'rpoofreading' was deliberate.

    I'm fairly new around here, but already I find myself irked by the following posting habits:

    1. 'First' or 'Fist'
    2. 'CAPTCHA: idiocy'
    3. People not reading stuff

    Get ready to hate wooden tables, too.

    And posts starting with "The real WTF..." as well.

    Actually you won't get a captcha if you're signed on.

  • (cs)

    A very large company I worked for in 1988 had a huge campaign to get employee suggestions on how to improve productivity, cut costs, and so on. One of the most useful tools they passed out as part of this was... a deck of cards. (It went with the "You're the Magic!" theme.) Perhaps they thought it would be easier to catch people playing solitaire if the managers could hear the cards being shuffled?

  • moe (unregistered) in reply to chan
    chan:
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    i love wheel of fortune ... the bottom-left word is captcha!! the bottom-right word is ... dreadlocks ?

    so, can i have a C ?

  • Stan (unregistered)

    Nice. My company had a huge quality push a decade ago and published a calendar with inspiring phrases for each month. June had the wrong number of days. Massive recall.

    Captcha is Vern, know what I mean?

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