ironymaiden | You don’t gotta say you love Pulp Fiction / I already know

yesterday was the last Monday standup of my old org. in the before times most of three floors of my office would pile into a big open area and turn on the camera and mike for the (much smaller) team in New York and we would all see each other and exchange info for 15 minutes. it was always informative but with a lighthearted spirit. one of the added features when we went remote was a QA lead (who owns hundreds of masks) who would show up as a different superhero/alien/monster every week. with the merger and the increased size of the org it was determined by The New Management that rather than expand and adapt the meeting to include everyone from the other company the meeting would come to an end.

i already miss it.

a colleague who has long taken the role of MC for demos, trivia events, etc* played us out:

You’re the life of the party
But the party is finally over
I think I’m gonna lose my shit**
I’m gonna lose my composure

(the song is otherwise about other things; definitely one i would have played on my college radio show if it had existed at the time.)

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i have other things i meant to write about, but apparently this is what i'm chewing on.

* i think the only event he's run since the merger was the intern demos. this is a sadness
** we were pretty foul-mouthed, which was supported by our dearly departed EVP; i think saying fuck at work isn't really going to be a thing anymore