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Just got out of the worst meetings I've ever been in. I've never seen a test manager rip someone the way one did today. It would have been bad enough one on one, but this was publically, in front of other testers, project managers, developers, and localizers, even people outside of this immediate department.

Can you say "Way out of line," boys and girls? I knew you could.

On top of that, there were a few things raised in the meeting that just got beaten into the ground, as if there wasn't consensus to begin with.

Can you say "Overkill," boys and girls? I knew you could.

Not a good thing coming from a manager who expects all his people to commit to staying through the end of the product thirty months off. Fuck you very much too, eh?

Oh, yeah, and no one brought donuts or bagels to the meeting, so in addition to being forced to witness the public flagellation of a colleague, we didn't have prime snackage either.

Monkey Grinder

This fits too well not to pass on. I usually try to refrain from extended song quotes, but i'm making an exception for this one from Chagall Guevera (revolutionary art, get it?):

The collar goes tight,
The fat man's crankin'
And the monkey's reeled in.
Don't he look a little blue?

The fool's sure is shortenin' that monkey's lifespan
This one ain't your ordinary hurdy-gurdy man
All you higher primates sweatin' to keep the company strong,
Have you heard the song of the monkey grinder?

Ain't it the truth, though? Dance to the man playing the tune, or pay the piper.