…then the “suggestions” people make might sound like this. And nothing of value would ever get accomplished.
(assuming, of course, that a business meeting accomplishes anything — but that’s a rant for another day…)
Interestingly enough, there’s a cool posting on slashdot.org about what it is like to work behind the scenes there. Here’s an excerpt:
If you can imagine working in the office of a school for gifted, troubled, and criminally insane children, inside an international airport, you can get a taste of what it is like to do support for Slashdot. I’ve worked here around 5 years now and have seen some crazy things.
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As everyone knows, people are precisely 500% more rude and angry online than they are in real life. Something about not having to see the tears or dodge the fist of the person you are swearing at brings out the worst in some people. We decided it would be fun to go through some of the more ‘interesting’ mails we’ve got through the years as part of our 10 year anniversary.