OOF to the door...

Out of Office anecdote

I used to do that very thing, but I took it a step further: When I first hired on full-time, I'd put a "be right back" sticker on my door when I went to the bathroom.

Ah yes, in those heady times, I thought as a junior, java-ignorant programmer working in a group of hardcore Java developers, that I'd better let everyone know every SECOND just where I was.

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  1. I think HC has heard this one, but I once asked a mailing list whether there was a version of their product that fixed a particular bug which was KILLING our product.

    I received one answer, in Polish, containing a string of digits that I HOPED and PRAYED was a version number.

    I ran it through BabelFish and got:

    "I am out of the office until 31.12.04..."

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