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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Corporate Megathread: I sigh as I unfold a printout of my posts
 
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sudonim
Oct 6, 2005

Cheesus posted:

Ok, when you're programming, any interruptions are bad. Having to switch your mental gears away from what you're working on is very hard.
I think this is more person-to-person thing than a general programmer thing. I'm doing a software gig right now (actual grown-up software like C++), but I've always had an easy time switching gears so little questions don't bother me. Worst case it's

:haw: Hey, I've got a question.
:) OK, I'm in the middle of something, is it a big issue?
:haw: Well, *blah blah problems*
:) That sounds pretty complicated, I'll stop by your desk once I'm done here.
:haw::respek::)

This doesn't work no matter how good you are at switching tasks if the person is a time-thieving rear end in a top hat though. Then I just start getting more and more rude until I put headphones on and they leave. My biggest problems are an intern whose parents never him taught him to act right and who thinks it's a good idea to shoot illegal immigrants :psyduck: and all our design specifications being made by committees that don't understand technology.

*edit: grammar*

sudonim fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Apr 21, 2010

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