[ornornor]

I worked at a place where they watched the im dot color to decide whether people were working or not, including expecting you to answer voice calls on the first three rings every time. This place was brain dead. I had to teach people not to call me or not to expect me to pick up, and I built a USB hardware mouse emulator that would move th cursor a couple px left and right while perfectly enumerating as the company’s standard issue mouse.

This place was hands down the worst place I’ve worked at. Nothing was ever getting done, everyone was running with their hair on fire constantly, it was hell. But managers paid a lot of attention to the color of the IM dot instead of, you know, fixing actual problems.

Fuck this place. I don’t miss it. I hope it gets run into the ground by the multiple layers of incompetents at the helm. But it’s unlikely, their customers are in a regulated, captive market.