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| Cubes Everywhere |
MrGrumpy arrived at the cube farm as usual at 7am, he had a plan for day, he needed to write some code from scratch, something he does not do that often anymore. It all started quite well, he was making some decent progress, he was making the most of the isolation the cube offers. But that did restrict the amount of coffee he was drinking, only one cup all morning, MrGrumpy really needs to drink a little more coffee. One of MrGrumpy's customer did manage to throw a spanner in his progress, after an unexpected conference call, MrGrumpy switched over to sorting out some sample code which should show his customer how easy the problem they had was to fix, if only they would think or even try doing things for themselves, maybe they would finish their project in record time. It does make MrGrumpy quite grumpy when customers expect to be able to take several man years of work and use it in a totally different way, all without trying to understand how or what the code does. What they are generally trying to do, is not hard, but what they should really do is take the blocks we provide and build their solution around them, that way the would understand how and why it works. After a couple of hours distraction MrGrumpy was able to get back to the project he started in the morning, it was not long before he realised it was almost 7pm, he had not even managed to get another cup of coffee or lunch, so after eating at the office headed home for a well deserved beer (or two).
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| Coffee is better than the UK office (but this is not difficult) |
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