Last day hijinks
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What sort of things have you done on your last day on a job?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Finishing up a job some years back, a manager came over with an urgent task about two hours before I was due to leave. My response, "No, and if you are not happy, then fire me!"
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What sort of things have you done on your last day on a job?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Nothing, quite boring actually. And it just happens that this Thursday will be my last day at my current job due to retrenchment. I'm going to work for another company, in the same building, just across the hall, so I'll be seeing my ex-colleagues daily. Still have lots to do to (documentation, etc). I think I've done enough pranks while I've been here though :)
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...after storming through the front gates in something with gun racks, using the boss' car as firing practice, sweet talking the lady in HR to give you access to the staff files "just in case", bribing the IT staff for a "backup" account and password that happens to have root access, possibly stealing the boss' secretary away for a farewell how-ya-doin', then tearing the boss a new one in front of staff and colleagues. Anything less and we disown you.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Well, when we agreed via a shouting match that the company would eventually go down in flames because the boss was an ego-maniacal control freak with a tenuous grasp on reality, they did call the cops to escort me out. Is that good enough? :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
What sort of things have you done on your last day on a job?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I was once given the usual send off, leaving card, small gift, bit of a nice speech, everyone stood around wanting to get back to work. Then I announced that I was actually stopping. When I did leave some time later I didn't get any of that again.
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Well, when we agreed via a shouting match that the company would eventually go down in flames because the boss was an ego-maniacal control freak with a tenuous grasp on reality, they did call the cops to escort me out. Is that good enough? :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Only if they were heavily armed.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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why? you firing someone? Bryce
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Nah mate - just reminiscing about the jobs in years past I hated.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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What sort of things have you done on your last day on a job?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Nothing..... *yet* .... Roll on next Tuesday :)
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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What sort of things have you done on your last day on a job?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I've posted about this before, but I'll repeat for those that missed it. At my old job the dress code was less than lax, as were the working hours. So I developed a system, the later I arrived, the dressier my clothes. It worked to distract the managers and make them think that possibly an interview ran late. "Surely if he had time to not dress like shit, then running late wasn't because of irresponsibility." After 10, dress shirt and dress pants, after 11, suit and tie. My last day, I showed up at 3pm in a black velvet tux with bowtie.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson
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Only if they were heavily armed.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
The cops here are always heavily armed. Typically each officer has a service weapon with three magazines (typically a 9mm that holds 16-rounds per magazine), a backup service weapon with two magazines (with 12 rounds per magazine, a semi-auto shotgun (6-8 rounds loaded with 4-6 in a girdle on the butt stock), and an M-16 with a standard combat patrol load out of 210 rounds (seven 30-round mags). (It pays to know your enemy.)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
The cops here are always heavily armed. Typically each officer has a service weapon with three magazines (typically a 9mm that holds 16-rounds per magazine), a backup service weapon with two magazines (with 12 rounds per magazine, a semi-auto shotgun (6-8 rounds loaded with 4-6 in a girdle on the butt stock), and an M-16 with a standard combat patrol load out of 210 rounds (seven 30-round mags). (It pays to know your enemy.)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997That will do nicely.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP