We had a minor crisis at work. I work on the Oracle HRMS system for a utility. After applying a patch and upgrade we could not transfer the time from the time card system over to the Payroll system. People like to get paid so we were more than a little motivated to get it fixed.
We gathered together as a team to work on the problem which took more than a few hours to fix. People were getting somewhat tense. Programmers as a group are on the OCD side and when we get stressed it tends to bring out this side even more.
Somebody wanted to double check something a different way. He apologized for being anal, but he said he needed to do this.
I remarked that, “Sometimes anal is good.”
The room all of sudden got real quite.
I realized what I had just said.
American audience, eh?
They were all thinking “I always thought so, too”
I can top it. A few years back at the company’s in-house, sit-down Xmax luncheon, I made a snafu. For dessert, both a male friend co-worker and I had both gotten the lemon icebox pie. I really only like the filling and crust, not the merguine topping. Upon hearing the male friend co-worker state that he only wanted the merguine, I shout over the two people separating us: ‘I’LL EAT YOUR BOTTOM, IF YOU’LL EAT MY TOP!!!!!’ Quietness-Giggles-Laughger erupts!!!!!!!!! To top it off (no pun intended), the male co-worker is gay!!!!!!!!
I’m shocked. I did not realize there were any gay folks at Saks.
YOU WERE RIGHT. THERE ARE SOME GOOD ONES.