Indeed, and no Coke either, which makes visits awkward as there's nothing from a programmers' drinks machine to offer them. (And programmers are badly placed to supply polygyny, so there are no appropriate hospitality options.)
On the bright side, when they collapsed they flooded Salt Lake City with so many spare programmers that it was worth opening an office there just to recruit them, which led to me going there for "technical interchange", meaning lots of hanging around the ski resort from the 2002 winter olympics. Yay for pointless business trips.
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Date: 2008-08-06 11:05 am (UTC)On the bright side, when they collapsed they flooded Salt Lake City with so many spare programmers that it was worth opening an office there just to recruit them, which led to me going there for "technical interchange", meaning lots of hanging around the ski resort from the 2002 winter olympics. Yay for pointless business trips.