Away Messages

I've become known at work not for the quality of my work, nor for my personality, but for my Gtalk away messages. It started, as so many traditions do, as a joke. I put a lot of people on my Gtalk list and realized they didn't know who I was, so I had to put up an away message stating I was a newhire. Then, I realized that was boring, so I got the "jeenius" idea to put up movie quotes and replace one word with the name of my company.

That was around 9 months ago.

Every single work day, unless I can't get access to the intarwebs, I post a new quote. People are kind of amazed, wonder where I get them from. It's really just whatever the first movie is that comes to mind when I hit www.imdb.com. Not that hard, and apparently it brings a lot of people fifteen seconds of joy every day. That's a lot more than I was able to give my last girlfriend, but I digress.

There are a few people that complain, but they're outnumbered by the silent majority, whom I follow. If nothing else, it's also a way to ensure tha tI haven't been fired, and my job is safe for another day. Kind of a code, or a secret message. Which is amusing, because T.F. remarked to me the other day when I made an offhand comment that he'd been wondering for the better part of a year what it meant. He just didn't want to appear stupid for asking.