Comments on: [personal] The intersection between public persona and work life

By: Brad R. Torgersen

Brad R. Torgersen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:54:55 +0000

Sad. Every office always has to have at least one back-stabbing fuckwad.

Petty indeed.

Mr. Lake, it is perhaps possible this person is a (failed) aspirant?

Nobody hates an emerging pro writer more than a bitter, failed aspirant.

Just my take.

By: rick valdes

rick valdes — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:44:37 +0000

Your writing will someday reward you so much that any day job is rendered irrelevant and counter productive. I suspect you’re almost there. The leap from the lion’s head, or in this case the cubicle will be the final step to freedom.

Look forward to seeing you at Rustycon

By: Mark Siegal

Mark Siegal — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:31:04 +0000

Oy vey. I don’t even get why they thought this would undermine you. I could see (but obviously not condone) doing this with, say, lurid Facebook photos or complaints about your workplace. But that post was so innocuous. Maybe they got bored of lurking, of waiting in vain for you to slip up and post some real ammo.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:14:33 +0000

The pettiness of some people’s concept of work politics never ceases to amaze me. I’ve met plenty who would feel that was a perfectly good action to try and advance. Most of them didn’t survive long.

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By: tetar

tetar — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:55:46 +0000

Breathtakingly petty of them, and they chose such an absurd point of attack, too. Your post twitting them is on target and their misfire can only have scorched them. As a fellow cancer survivor, I can only encourage open communication about such matters, so more people can be informed and heartened, and maybe even inspired to do something about it in their own lives.

Workplaces seem such dank, squalid places at times but remember, most of your co-workers are not that way at all.

By: Deirdre Saoirse Moen

Deirdre Saoirse Moen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:39:37 +0000

Honestly, I wish enough more people talked about the process of vasectomy (and, earlier, cancer) so that it was better coped with. Some of the comments were hilarious.

May the petty person be unearthed in the way least flattering to him or her.

By: Lee Battersby

Lee Battersby — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:20:30 +0000

If you do find out who did it, I recommend sneaking into their office/cubicle when they’re not there and draping the bits the doctor removed over their chair. Anonymously, of course

By: R. Schuyler Devin (rsdevin)

R. Schuyler Devin (rsdevin) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:05:39 +0000

I get so tired of back-stabbers, malicious pettiness, and gossip. Great post and excellent written confrontation directed to this anonymous, pot-stirring, yellow-bellied bastard.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:37:17 +0000

The pettiness of people never ceases to amaze and depress me. I’m glad that you have good bosses.