rewards
so work's been in a kind of nutso phase recently. nothing unusual there. i have a task: find a work-around for a problem. um, shouldn't i just fix the problem? no, make a work-around. highest priority or you're fired. oh-kay. so i crawled back under my rock and fixed the problem. a few hours later, a co-worker joked he was stalking me while i was trying to get the controller chick to take me out for ice cream. she didn't. then he followed me back to my office. guess he wasn't kidding. then he heaped a mountain of praise on me that made termination a trivial thing. he asked, why is the client suddenly running so much faster?