[rodh257]

While the ideas for projects is a good one, do you ever get sick of hearing peoples complaints in social situations? Nothing is more annoying than when you are having a few Friday beers and all people want to do is tell you how crap their computer is expecting you to promise them a new one by Monday.

[ora600]

Oh, that was my favorite thing about working at HP. The conversations!

"Where do you work?"

"HP"

"Oh, I have a problem with my printer/laptop"

"Actually, I work on superdome specific optimizations for the HPUX compiler."

"So why does printer ink cost so much?"

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