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This is some stuff from some ancient IRC logs.  OK, ancient meaning late 1999.

<rone> ==========================================================
<rone> CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE WIRED VENTURES
<rone> ==========================================================
<rone> Sorry for the spam, but does anyone happen to know somebody who has suffered
<rone> voice strain injuries as a result of using voice recognition software?

<rone> Welcome to bianca, the alternative online community.
<rone> Calling ourselves biancateers, (as in mouseketeers), we roam the San
<rone>      Francisco Bay Area looking for down and depressed souls

I'm sure some of you will wonder at the first bit, so i will come clean and say that yes, i worked at Wired Digital/Hotbot (a Lycos™ company!) for a horrible and tedious 3 weeks.  It was a terrible time spent as a contractor, working for some clueless Canadian kid at an enterprise overrun with what i call "neo-Bohemian trendoid hipsters", the worst sort of plastic San Franciscan you encounter littering the SoMa region.  And, well, what would you expect from Wired?  And their Hotbot farm was a clutch of NT boxes in some Exodus cage that were rebooted with a stick poked through the cage enclosure.  It was awful.  They fired me because they said that i "projected a negative attitude"; i can hear some of you guffawing already, but i assure you that i am on my best behavior in any situation until i feel comfortable enough to let the bear out.  That usually means sticking around past the 90-day probationary period.  3 weeks... pff.  I shudder to think what those sissies would've thought of the regular ol' me.  I hope they rot in hell.  Not that i'm still bitter.

Pollyanna-Man TO THE RESCUE!

Date: 2005-09-16 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haineux.livejournal.com
Why waste your precious bitterness essences on those losers? They did you a great favor by punting you.

Or would you rather still be getting up from your chair every 5 minutes to poke sticks at NT servers?

Date: 2005-09-16 04:11 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (bowler)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
Oh, no doubt. It's like getting dumped over e-mail by some psycho chick who you know wasn't ever going to be any good for you... you're glad, but you still can't believe she had the crassness to dump you over e-mail.

Not that this, uh, has ever happened to me, either.

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