Friday, August 20, 2004

Departures

arsi writes about his work pal, Mikey, who is abandoning him to an office full of humorless engineers. I know what he'll be going through; I kind of suffered the same thing when my friend Kevin left West a couple of years back. Kevin and I collaborated on some of the funniest corporate memos this place has seen. We also wrote some pretty good code together. I don't think a day goes by when I don't look over at his old cube, right across from mine, hoping to see him there.

Fortunately, this is a ginormous place, and finding what Anne Shirley would call "kindred spirits" isn't all that hard; I still have friends (even if they can't Photoshop worth a rat's ass). arsi's likely to have a tougher time of it. He's got my sympathy.