I just saw this tweet…
…and it reminded me of a story I’ve retold under the right circumstances for years, but never written down.
So a few years ago, I was a Lead Developer at Harte-Hanks Response Management, working on the IBM account. We were in the final stages of a huge project with a Monday morning deadline (well, internal deadline of Monday morning to show it to our IBM account team, Monday afternoon showing to the client).
I had worked 16 hours on Friday, 16 on Saturday, and was planning on an all-nighter Sunday. Other members of the team were pulling long hours, too, as their schedules and families would allow.
Sunday evening about 5:30, our manager, Mike Ortegon (one of the best managers I’ve ever had, and still at Harte-Hanks, by the way), showed up with Pizza Hut pizza for the whole team – everyone of course knows that geeks will work for pizza in a pinch.
Mike: “I figured y’all were hungry, so I got Meat Lover’s. I hope no one here’s a vegetarian.”
Scott Bellware (@bellware): “Actually I am…”
Mike: “Oh damn…”
Scott B.: “…except when I’m really hungry.”
Image credit: Matt McGee
I’ve given up on being vegetarian. The software development lifestyle doesn’t jive with it. Hard enough just to remain healthy.
Haha I can so picture that… Scott didn’t you feed us pizza at conjunctured once? You guys didn’t even have any water to drink! ;P
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