Comments on: That ever elusive fun factor http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2007/04/04/that-ever-elusive-fun-factor/ One more roll of the dice... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:24:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: D.G. Hall http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2007/04/04/that-ever-elusive-fun-factor/#comment-881523 D.G. Hall Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:27:03 +0000 http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2007/04/04/that-ever-elusive-fun-factor/#comment-881523 <blockquote>I’m still trying to figure out how I keep dodging the “redeployment� bullet. It’s not as if I devote any energy at all to making friends and influencing people. Instead I’m argumentative, I poke holes in every sanguine presentation I see, and I warn against the worst rather than cheerleading the optimists.</blockquote> Hell, Jack...back in the day, when I was a Senior Systems Engineer, that was pretty much my job description. Argumentative, irascible, and nine times out of ten, <em>right</em> about what the answer was. That was software engineering, of course. Nothing like what you do on a day-to-day basis. Still, I don't see anything wrong with your approach. Hang in there. - D

I’m still trying to figure out how I keep dodging the “redeployment� bullet. It’s not as if I devote any energy at all to making friends and influencing people. Instead I’m argumentative, I poke holes in every sanguine presentation I see, and I warn against the worst rather than cheerleading the optimists.

Hell, Jack…back in the day, when I was a Senior Systems Engineer, that was pretty much my job description. Argumentative, irascible, and nine times out of ten, right about what the answer was.

That was software engineering, of course. Nothing like what you do on a day-to-day basis. Still, I don’t see anything wrong with your approach.

Hang in there.

- D

]]> By: Barb http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2007/04/04/that-ever-elusive-fun-factor/#comment-881515 Barb Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:00:55 +0000 http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2007/04/04/that-ever-elusive-fun-factor/#comment-881515 Totally agree with you - My friends at work are a huge part of the pleasure I take in my job. Obviously, where I work has other perks .... but if the group I worked with were not fun-loving and interesting people, it would not get me up and out of bed in the morning like it does now. Is a change in the wind? Totally agree with you - My friends at work are a huge part of the pleasure I take in my job. Obviously, where I work has other perks …. but if the group I worked with were not fun-loving and interesting people, it would not get me up and out of bed in the morning like it does now.
Is a change in the wind?

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