Work

Just when you think — again — that you’ve misjudged someone, they remind you that you were right all along. Or maybe my sense of humour is too different from theirs. (…)

Waking up is not so hard to do after all.
This morning I had to wake up at 5:30 am (we had to leave for a faraway meeting). (…)

A lot of the new employees (in the group I work in) have been young guys. And a lot of them have been the friends of a young guy who’s been working there for a while. (…)

Last Friday I went out with a couple of colleagues, “for a pint.” We were walking to the subway station when the other asked me to come along and I had to make sure, “You’re asking me? (…)

I signed a new employment contract today. (…)

You’d better protect yourself — by locking your computer when you leave the keyboard for even a second. (…)

The other day (Nov 10th) while I was away from my computer for a while, I saw my boss sit there and do something. (…)

This post is the first in my new category, Smile of the Day, but I’ll probably add more posts to it as I go through the archives. (…)

Last night I had a Moment. It was a moment when I realised that what I do at work is really really fantastic (or should I say fah-bulous).
I’m not really talking about the technical stuff. (…)

I work in localisation among other areas of translation and I know it’s very tempting to re-use texts that one might think are “the same”. (…)