What You Get When You Work Here…

March 9, 2006 on 6:43 pm | In Funnyish, Insider View by Jeff | 14 Comments

…is, as often as not, a whole lot of abuse.

Take, for example, our fearless Tech Support team leader, Ralph.

Every month all of the team leaders go out to lunch and goof off talk about important company stuff, leaving the rest of us poor plebs in our respective offices to work. Lately, though, the queue has been pretty well managed (thanks to all of our stunningly efficient new hires who toil away as the old guard takes a nap supervises). You know what they say about idle hands being the devil’s tools, right? Well, despite the fact that Ralph is a pretty nice guy, some brave souls in our Brea location took it upon themselves to make some, erm, changes to the front of Ralph’s office.

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I, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with it.

This isn’t the first time such weirdness has been afoot. I made the mistake of taking a two week vacation once only to find that the six foot tall shelving unit in my office had been flipped over. Another prank involved an unsolicited modification to the blinds in my office window. I caused a bit of annoyance in my would-be torturers by not bothering to touch my blinds for several days (unbeknownst to me, if I had they would have all come off and fallen to the ground). Then, of course, there’s the time that Brett forged a fake $500 ticket and affixed it to my car’s windshield – I was grabbing my keys to go raise hell at the court house before I was told it was a fake.

If you ever get a chance to work here – well, I won’t lie – DreamHost is a ton of fun to work for. However, be prepared to fall victim to all sorts of wacky hijinks.

BTW: For those of you who have followed the exploits of our friend Ted, there is a new development. Ted now has what we like to call “empathy caps” – little orange caps that go on either end in order to “soften the blow” for lesser offenses. Of course, we leave those off for those who really should know better, like Javier.

Ted says hi!

14 Responses to “What You Get When You Work Here…”

  1. David:moua Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 8:10 pm

    Poor dreamhost employee :)

    Go on Ted, for every glitch they deserve your punishment >:-)

    [David:moua]

  2. o dear Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 12:21 am

    dudes, you really need to preview your blog updates in IE..

    hint, don’t post pics wider than the #content width.

  3. phoenix Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:01 am

    pfft-stab IE, get Firefox!

    (ducks and runs before that flame war begins)

    I have to admit though, as soon as I saw that I thought to myself “where’s Ted?!” I figured he’d be playing a role in the near future.

    Man you guys rock; that looks like an AWESOME place to work. Especially if those boxes had gear and soda in them. Hell, I’d be out to Target to buy a minifridge and then back to unpack all that stuff. SCORE!

  4. michael Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:51 am

    Oh yeah, they were full. Empty boxes would be too easy to move!

  5. Jeff C. Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 12:39 pm

    > Oh yeah, they were full. Empty boxes would be too
    > easy to move!

    Empty or not, picking up boxes is still somewhat hazardous in our company (inside joke). :>

    But, yeah, they were full – not a problem for the strong, capable employees at DreamHost. It’s amazing what sitting in front of a computer typing for 8+ hours a day can do one’s physique.

  6. Jon Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    Unacceptable!

  7. David Smith Says:
    March 12th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

    Correct me if I am wrong but I do believe Ted needs a bigger stick. :)

  8. Kelly Says:
    March 13th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

    Ted -is- the stick. Or black galvanized steal pipe as the case may be. In choosing Ted we carefully weighed and swung each of the various sizes that Home Depot offered. We found 18″ of black galvanized “Quality Control” had the best heft-to-swing ratio.

    While I maintain I know nothing of who instigated or aided in the block-stacking that went on, I do know how much 4 12-packs of soda and 2 Dell 2001FP monitor’s weigh when stacked vertically.

  9. Pete Says:
    March 13th, 2006 at 9:48 pm

    Speaking of knowing the vertical stack weight of soda and monitors, I’d like to know what’s been on Kelly’s mind lately that would make him misspell “steel” as “steal.”

  10. David Smith Says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 1:57 am

    Ted is the stick, don’t I feel like a right twit. :P

  11. Lynn Says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    hey guys,

    If I ever come back to the US to live can I come work for you??? It looks like fun whatever you say!
    A happy Dreamhost Customer…

  12. Andy Says:
    March 16th, 2006 at 7:44 am

    Nice bonus to have? A stack of computers/servers, tons of unhealthy soft drinks, and what seems like two nice sets of speaker… what more can an employee ask for? =]

  13. David Harrison Says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    > I do know how much 4 12-packs of soda and 2 Dell 2001FP monitor’s weigh when stacked vertically.

    If that was all dumped outside my door, the whole lot would totally be coming home with me. :D

    Those monitors are niiiiice, I know this because I have one, so awesome for games, so awesome for code.

  14. Slav Zat Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 1:58 am

    Especially if those boxes had gear and soda in them. Hell, I’d be out to Target to buy a minifridge and then back to unpack all that stuff. SCORE!

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