A nice little chore for this weekend

[flexagon]

With the company's new fiscal year, the $500/year they give us for personal spending on geek equipment is restored. For the first time, we are being allowed to use that $500 toward office chairs--and oh, how sweet the thought of a cheap, really good chair! So it's time to go shopping.

I think I'll be deciding between the Aeron B and the newer Mirra.

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Nope... work isn't worthy of my spiffy chair...

[webrat.livejournal.com]

What.. and maybe get fired one day and suddenly there's a discussion of where the chair originally came from as you're wheeling it out the door? No way. When I get fired, I want to travel light as possible, hell, I keep a pair of cheap headphones at work that I don't care about. I have a .bat script already to go to quickly un-install everything that's mine, etc.

:)

Can you tell I work in a hostile environment?

I need to be better at stuff like that

[flexagon]

The ownership-of-chair thing will be no problem here. Things purchased under this $500-refund program belong to the employee outright, plus this company has never bought anyone a chair that nice and never will. :)

I am actually terrible at separating work and personal stuff, and have tons of emails balled up in an Outlook .psd file that I'd really hate to lose. Since I think I'll be able to choose my time of leaving, I should have time to deal with stuff like that, redirect my MIT alum account, and so forth. But I'm totally aware that I'm leaving myself open to nasty data loss in the case of getting fired.

At least I'm finally administering my website from home.

Re: I need to be better at stuff like that

[webrat.livejournal.com]

*nods*.. I check my email from home at work too, but I leave the "Leave on server" option checked. Yes, this means I have to wade through the same junkmail twice a day, but thunderboid (http://www.mozilla.org/) (bottom left) is usually pretty good about canning them before I see them.

There's only a handful of programs on my machine now that I wouldn't want work to get, but.. *shrugs* I'm ready.

Personally I wish it didn't have to be this way. I'm fiercely loyal to a company to the end, but only if it's worth being loyal too. I was loyal to MetalSite for 3 years before I realized that it was a sinking ship and I needed to start swimming or drown with the rats.

.bat scripts

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I had one of those at my last job. Quit. Ran the script. Decided to stay. Regretted I had to get all the stuff back from the outside world, but did it. Then quit for real and had to run it again. :-)