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[jinian]

A discussion of the new Euro notes in the office. Watermarks are mentioned, as well as other security features.

Sean: I heard that some guys in China were making copies of Windows 2000 with the holograms and everything.
Kylee, perfectly reasonably: Oh, good for them.

General laughter.

I sometimes forget that I'm not always in an environment in which anti-Microsoft is taken as a given. I get teased for that sometimes.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's company-wide meetings on how to word that, how to sell new
people on the idea that We're Not So Bad?

:)

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Yes. Given that I'm LJing through work servers, though, I think I shouldn't say any more.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Well, not company-wide meetings. But the Sales/Marketing folk have a not inconsiderable volume of (mis-)information to give out.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I never got to go to the company-wide meetings where they gave out handfulls of pills and wore goat-hair leggings, since I was only a lowly blue-badge. But working at M$oft has definite advantages; unlimited Mt. Dew access is an uncontestable perk. And they're pretty decent to their employees, much better than some of the hellholes I've survived. :P

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

I'm not an employee, I'm a prole contractor; my badge is a hideous orange. Luckily it looks like I'm in one of the groups where they don't treat us like complete pariahs. And they put the drugs in the free pop, I'm pretty sure.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

If you ever need to pull an all-nighter, get a couple of packets of the little pink pain pills in the blue and white packets from a medicine cupboard, and wash down like six of them with a couple of Mt. Dews. Dear Smegging Ghott. That's why M$oft has legions of fanatical programmer-slaves - they give you free crack!!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, sweet, sweet crack. It's too bad that they don't have the flavoured seltzer in the glass bottles anymore - how am I supposed to freebase now?