it's all about me. ME!

[jrtom]

(or, rather, meme. I always get those confused.)

Stolen from red_frog:

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really we know too much about each other.

I want you to tell me something you think I should know about myself. Something that should be true, but probably isn't.

Comment away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people think should be true about you.

Go ahead. I dare you. Make your day.

Comments

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I had to do it for a while. It'll be good for you--teach you the value of antiacids and deep breathing. (Whatever anyone else ever tells you, they're wrong: those people really are aliens. Or we are.)

My other idea was to suggest that you and Megan had switched identities and were in fact each other, only in very clever disguises.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I've already quit a job because I refused to put Blatant Lies in the documentation I was writing; technically this was by request of the CEO, but it was clearly for reasons of marketing. (The last straw: Feature X was on the list of features that we wanted to have for our about-to-be-released product, but our main hardware engineer had never managed to implement it, and we all knew that it wouldn't be done soon, if ever. Nevertheless I was told to put it in the documentation. On top of the incorrect specs that we were already publishing, this was too much; eventually I refused, and gave my notice--and told them exactly why.)

I keep telling people that either Megan or I is pregnant, and in about 2.5 months we're going to find out who...and people keep interpreting it as an allegory, or something. :)

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I never understand why people think that that's a good idea. I mean, it's easily verified. All it does is make life difficult for people like me who have to answer why, even though a particular KB article says something, it is in fact not true.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

In this case I think that it was fairly straightforward: our CEO believed that whether the feature was there or not, making the claim that it was would increase our sales. Also, he wasn't the one that was going to have to answer the phone when people asked why they couldn't do X; I was.

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

See, this is why they're aliens. I look at that and think, "Yeah, but if the feature isn't there and people talk to each other and find out that it's a LIE"--as they will--"then that's going to hurt sales.

Then again, this would be why you're no longer working for them.