It's been pointed out to me that I was missing a couple of items here...
1) The problem tickets are terse series of commands. In seven years here this is the first I've seen that included any sort of commentary like this. That seemed odd. Maybe they're trying to be all warm and fuzzy, and I missed the memo.
2) Apparently I'm one of few people who thinks that the word 'sufficient' has a negative connotation. Think of it this way - if it showed up on your job review, would you be happy? My internalized definition is quite close to that last thesaurus.com entry: mediocrity (average).
3) I'm used to wearing a tshirt with an Apple Developer Conference logo on it on wash day and having a random person say "Oh, so you're one of those Mac bigots, huh?" (Seriously - a guy struck up a conversation at a party once like that... and another at a non-techie group gathering at a coffee house. Those are just within the last four months.) People assume I'm an idiot... the fact that I'm finishing up a PhD in computer science shocks them. It's very tiring. And yes, I get a lot of it in the dept as well, mostly from clueless undergrads whose l33t skills stop at getting Quake up and running on a LAN.
Take these three together, and it just irked me. Certainly nothing major, certainly nothing to restart a platform war over, for god's sake. Just something to gripe about.
Besides, this is my journal. I get to bitch about what I want to bitch about. :)
Re: Sufficient, from m-w.com
1) The problem tickets are terse series of commands. In seven years here this is the first I've seen that included any sort of commentary like this. That seemed odd. Maybe they're trying to be all warm and fuzzy, and I missed the memo.
2) Apparently I'm one of few people who thinks that the word 'sufficient' has a negative connotation. Think of it this way - if it showed up on your job review, would you be happy? My internalized definition is quite close to that last thesaurus.com entry: mediocrity (average).
3) I'm used to wearing a tshirt with an Apple Developer Conference logo on it on wash day and having a random person say "Oh, so you're one of those Mac bigots, huh?" (Seriously - a guy struck up a conversation at a party once like that... and another at a non-techie group gathering at a coffee house. Those are just within the last four months.) People assume I'm an idiot... the fact that I'm finishing up a PhD in computer science shocks them. It's very tiring. And yes, I get a lot of it in the dept as well, mostly from clueless undergrads whose l33t skills stop at getting Quake up and running on a LAN.
Take these three together, and it just irked me. Certainly nothing major, certainly nothing to restart a platform war over, for god's sake. Just something to gripe about.
Besides, this is my journal. I get to bitch about what I want to bitch about. :)