Back to Being Bossed
Back to the grind. We announced that Deepleap was dying on monday, and Tuesday morning I had my first day of work. For someone else.
It's sort of like getting brought back into prison, not because it's a horrible job or because I dont like being here, but because it feels institutional. I get up at the same time every day, I do the same things in the morning, I drive the same route to work, I say the same things when I enter the office.... You see? It's all very, for lack of a better word, stable and that's still a bit odd to me.
I wake up at 7:45am.
The new job is very offical and very Startup. I have a phone on my folding banquet table desk, around 3:30pm you can hear the tap tap of a ping pong game in the other room, and lunch is delivered everyday. Some of the walls are lined-- literally-- with diagrams of the site, the product, any number of other things. They (we) have more space than they know what to do with, so it lays empty, remaining a simple and clear symbol of funding.
A little first second day email:
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:12:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: bryan boyer <bryan@deepleap.com>
To: ben brown <benbrown@deepleap.com>
Subject: Re: linkdragon
dude. win2000 is just scary, scary, scary.
I am using homesite! eww!
and icq! woah!
and ICQ fights with photoshop so that when I want to use the eyedropper or one of my nifty nifty keyboard shortcuts suddenly there's a fucking icq window telling me that control is the wrong key and I should be rightclicking if I want to get user info, HOW CAN I BE SO DUMB? ICQ wants to know, you see, how I can be so dumb.
also: lotus notes is a fucking castle of software. a veritable mountain of fortified code. Huge and impenetrable, this is one little bitch.
plus plus: I have to be at work at 9:00 in the MORNING! jesus.
and: pienoon soon.
-bryan
bryan boyer - Cleaning Up The Mess - http://www.deepleap.com
http://www.bryanboyer.com - personal whatnots.
I work right next to a window. We've been freed, Douglas. I put my cell phone on silent when I'm in the office. I stare at walls, not people, in the elevator. I am a good citizen of Corporate America.
9:57am Update
Owen is right, I will stop now.
--Posted 08/25/00 04:29AM