You work in a corporate environment don't you. You had to fill out a "comment re...

edw519 · on June 16, 2008

You work in a corporate environment don't you. You had to fill out a "comment request form" in triplicate just to post the above comment

You don't work in a corporate environment, do you?

If you're working for bigco, swearing is probably not going to go down well with your boss, or co-workers

Since few bigcos I've ever worked at ever do code reviews, how would they even know?

After spending many years in corporate environments, it's easy to spot those who haven't when they post comments about corporate environments.

axod · on June 16, 2008

My last job was in a corporate cubedom for 4 years. Not a massive company, but a few 100s of employees. We held weekly code reviews at one point. Also bosses do have a habit of suddenly believing that if they help code the project might run quicker, so they ask for svn access etc, then break everything :)

edw519 · on June 16, 2008

So you have worked in a corporate environment. My mistake.

But tell me, when did you ever have to fill out a "comment request form" in triplicate?

axod · on June 16, 2008

Now I can't work out if you're being sarcastic or not.

edw519 · on June 16, 2008

Touche.

I've worked in many corporate environments, some where things were perfectly logical and others that aspired to be as good as Dilbert.

But I never had to fill out anything in triplicate. I guess I should have realized the sarcastic flag was up. Sorry.

axod · on June 16, 2008

We had so much Sarbanes-Oxley bs anything seemed possible. "Oh you can't use an IM client that isn't approved by us, as it's against S-OX". (Approved by us meant that they paid some inferior crappy IM company to install their client on all company computers. Then they paid a fee per user) Nothing like corporate waste :)