Oct 11 11:36:08 what a delightful all-hands meeting that was! god damn you never know what kinda exciting things are gonna happen up in the magical land of dunwoody Oct 11 11:37:56 HOLY FUCK I'M GLAD I WOKE UP EARLY TO FIGHT TRAFFIC TO BE THERE Oct 11 11:39:40 I love how they shipped and set up the prototype office furniture to all our locations, not for feedback, but to taunt us Oct 11 11:39:51 this is the shit you get, better get used to it! Oct 11 11:41:16 "I don't know that it was ever our vision to transform the media industry" fuck I could have fallen out of my chair Oct 11 11:41:26 lololol Oct 11 11:41:52 well i've got time to kill today apparently before a FOUR FUCKING OCLOCK INTERVIEW Oct 11 11:42:17 I had a follow up about whether our new mission statement included some of the nice bits from our old one but i figured since the dude hadn't even bothered to be aware that we had such things it'd be time wasted Oct 11 11:42:32 we are interviewing, or are you angry enough that you're interviewing elsewhere? :) Oct 11 11:42:49 no, greg scheduled a 4pm panel for today Oct 11 11:42:58 i bitched about it to my poor wife for like two hours last night Oct 11 11:43:51 * sduncan is just grouchy today Oct 11 11:43:54 late liquid lunch -> interview hilarity Oct 11 11:44:07 i like where your head is at datagrok Oct 11 11:45:35 apparently it's only 30 minutes...so sidebar? Oct 11 11:46:45 oh are we doing this thing? yeah sounds good, tater tots for lunch Oct 11 11:47:02 lol, no i was saying afterwards Oct 11 11:47:09 oh haha sure Oct 11 11:47:15 but don't let me stop you Oct 11 11:55:25 Has anyone here ever seen postgres use wildly different scanning methods for the same query on a piece of data? Oct 11 12:34:16 sduncan: datagrok whaaa happened? Oct 11 12:34:21 is that literally a quote? Oct 11 12:34:25 about the media industry? Oct 11 12:37:00 vilmibm: you recall that the "vision statement" for cmgd is "to transform the media industry." Vince coined it back in the day Oct 11 12:37:12 and it may be silly but I like it Oct 11 12:38:10 well we all went out to corporate today to be informed by the upper ups that they had a 2-day-long upper-up schmoozing party where they probably used fucking post its and sticky circles to develop a new vision statement and new mission statement Oct 11 12:38:31 for the new "cmg technology" which is old cmgd + some other things like what used to be cmg IT Oct 11 12:39:15 so they lay this new vision statement on us like "propel blah blah blah cmg for our customers delight and something else blah" Oct 11 12:39:40 and I raise my and and was like "so... are we no longer trying to transform the media industry?" Oct 11 12:39:58 "I don't know that we ever were trying to transform the media industry" was the reply Oct 11 12:40:00 er Oct 11 12:40:04 part of the reply Oct 11 12:40:18 the rest was a corporatey chewing-on-words that I've already forgotten Oct 11 12:41:02 kinda seemed like he was completely unaware that CMGd already had a vision and mission statement Oct 11 12:43:06 panel interview this afternoon got cancelled \o/ Oct 11 12:43:19 so whatevs I don't really give a shit what they do. but their talk of inspiration and innovation are anathema to their actions. I wish they'd split us up into two groups like 'people who respond well to corporate bull shitting" and "people who prefer transparency and plain language" Oct 11 12:45:20 then they could tell me "yeah we're bleeding too much money to care about these lofty goals anymore, and we really don't give a shit about innovation unless it's from an MBA who communicates entirely through the medium of Post-It Brand Notes, like our darlings at IDEO do. but we're keeping the lab so you don't need to start job hunting just yet" Oct 11 12:48:08 and I'd be like, all right, we know where we stand, catch you later bro Oct 11 12:49:07 i think a damn email i wouldn't read would have been fine for this morning Oct 11 12:49:40 yeah why not "free breakfast with a side of bullshit" even