• (cs) in reply to Koppernicus
    Koppernicus:
    I will attend a Lunch n Learn only if I am allowed to eat the presenter afterwards. That way I'll know it will be important, and not just another pretentious suck up wasting my time.

    Learning is part of my job, and I do it on job time. Eating is my time, thank you very much.

    Just out of interest:

    How much do you weigh, exactly?

  • less fairy (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Sorry, I don't like pizza
    What is wrong with you?!?
  • less fairy (unregistered) in reply to Roger Dodger
    Roger Dodger:
    To whom it may concern:

    The phrase is "deep seated".

    Obviously, your company practices are simply different. Apparently they do quite a bit of deep-seeding.

  • (cs) in reply to less fairy
    less fairy:
    Roger Dodger:
    To whom it may concern:

    The phrase is "deep seated".

    Obviously, your company practices are simply different. Apparently they do quite a bit of deep-seeding.
    It's taxonomically impossible to be "less fairy," although I'll grant you it's possible to be more, or less, pink. Check it out on the intertubes.

  • billswift (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Also, I hate people who think it's a good idea to hold meetings during lunch. Lunch is a break when I eat my food, I don't want to work during it. In fact, aren't there labor laws about requiring breaks (from work)?

    At least in some states. When I worked at Walmart, we weren't even supposed to answer questions about work from managers when we were clocked out for lunch. On the other hand, I thought most developers were salaried, in which case it wouldn't apply to them.

  • less fairy (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    less fairy:
    It's taxonomically impossible to be "less fairy,"
    So, you're a binary kind of person, eh?
  • AndyL (unregistered) in reply to Voodoo Coder
    Voodoo Coder:
    It's also optional, so if you'd rather spend that time doing something else, you don't even have to ask to be excused from it.

    But be prepared to be bad-mouthed on the Internet by complete strangers.

  • (cs)

    The last employer that tried to get me to do something work related in my lunch break discovered that neat stuff from the office started disappearing.

    Steal my time, and i will steal your property.

  • Max (unregistered) in reply to BK

    I would have easily attended a Learn and Lunch session.

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to someguy

    Hey now, what's wrong with a base class that EVERYTHING inherits from?

    Nothing, as long as that class is Object...

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    I thought maybe the "never take these books" sign might have been a cunning exercise in reverse psychology in order to encourage developers to take the books and actually read them. Along the lines of the "DO NOT SEND" SMS package.

    Also, I hate people who think it's a good idea to hold meetings during lunch. Lunch is a break when I eat my food, I don't want to work during it. In fact, aren't there labor laws about requiring breaks (from work)?

    In most (if not all) places in the US, it only applies under the age of 18.

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