The Thank You Cookie

At the end of the fiscal quarter (and no, I’m not saying anything publicly until Alfred Chuang says something officially), my group got… cookies?

Fortunately, we get money, not food, as part of our official compensation. Cookies are just the icing on the cake, so to speak.

I don’t want to reveal too many of our secret end-of-quarter meetings. Suffice it to say, there were people playing air guitar and some really bad singing of the “BEAhemian Rhapsody” I mean William Hung-bad. But after that, we all trekked out to Sterling to race go-karts at AllSports Grand Prix for the remainder of the day, where I fantasized about being Michael Schumacher or Helios Castroneves.

That said, I got penalized on my second lap for, ahem, driving a bit aggressively and “not maintaining control of my car”. Looking at the lap times, I beg to differ.

And to top it all off, our CEO is “warning” Wall Street that our Q4 earnings may be higher than expected.

Life is good.

2 February 2006 | BEA Systems | Comments