Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

Well, here is how it started. My boss, lets call him JD, went on vacation for a week. At the same time we’re just recovering from April 1st mentality around the office. During the week, someone who will remain nameless, came up with the idea of sealing up the bosses office. Not only sealing it off but then also painting the newly sealed off door to look like the surrounding doorway to give it a little extra ‘wow’ factor.

As you can see from the picture we got a little lazy in our implementation of sealing the bosses office. We did in fact seal the door, but were too busy actually working to really devote the time + energy to paint. So we just opted to bring up a shipping container quarter filled with packing peanuts, sealed the door, and made it look like we completely filled the room so much so that it was leaking out. I believe you can see the peanut sprinkle down at the bottom, and peanut line at the top margin of the door frame in the top picture.

What was even better was it was requested to send a project summary of what we’ve been doing, and expect to have done in the next few weeks by email yesterday, which was the day before he got back. So all of us on our project lists put ‘filling bosses office with packing peanuts’ on our to-do with expectation to have it done today. I think that was a great team effort to have that done in one day don’t you think?

So today the boss came in from his vacation to find, like many others who’ve passed it in the last week, that his door was completely sealed off and overflowing with packing peanuts. To make matters better for us we got the COO to send an email to him asking why $500.00 worth of shipping materials was allocated to our department with need for explanation from him. Yes indeed we are a crazy bunch in programming, but at least we know how to seal the deal.

Oh, no, we’re not all fired…. yet. And as a precaution i taped an letter of admission on the door care of our friend CK. You can see his figure in the print-out hanging on the door.