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DM me, but please keep the floss

June 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In my role I get the occasional DM piece from an image bank, a recruitment agency, creative school or an award show. Sometimes (and not often enough, hint hint) there is a nice surprise connected with it, likeĀ Soap Creative’s Meeting Game or tasty coco beans by freelancer Mauricio Perez.

But this one really flattened me (in the wrong kind of way).

DM floss

DM floss

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Attention Surry Hills: Street Cricket is becoming massive…

February 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A few Fridays ago we felt the stress of work getting to us. And instead of heading straight for the pub we found “OfficeCricket” and its rough cousin “StreetCricket” to be great tension relief.

Here is Mike dressed in Baggy Gold showing off to the rest of Holler, fine skill and posture indeed.

A few moments later quiet little Bellevue Street served as the real battleground. Mike’s batting and bowling started to shine. Firstly, knocking it for six onto a neighbour’s balcony and secondly, making Ian look very English by bowling him out straight away.

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Old job / new job: Resign in style and accept with grace

September 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I was amused and inspired by Flickr’s co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s resignation letter. Sure, when you are all cashed-up and ready to venture into something new, it is easy to take the mickey out of the business you are still in. But apparently Mr. Butterfield has managed to pull off this style for quite a while. I would work with guys like him any time. One might occasionally have to watch out for rabid ramblings in important meetings but that definitely beats playing BuzzwordBingo.

Photo by Squeaky Wheel

Photo by Squeaky Wheel

Have a read here (via valleywag) and if you are in the mood for switching jobs, why not take a leaf out of Stew’s book? If you are geekily inclined then why not write it in PHP as one commentator suggested:

$me = new Employee();
$me->setStatus(Employee::$resign);
throw EmployeeException(“f*** you, f*** you, you’re cool, f*** you… I’m outta here”);

And if you have recently joined, why not give a belated acceptance speech? To be performed in full costume near the watercooler/server room/game console. That should set your new colleague’s expectations right.

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