January 15th, 2013

If there were some sort of award for alternative commuting, we would’ve been eligible

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A few projects ago, I worked on a team whose members came to work by a wide variety of modes. If there were some sort of award for alternative commuting, we would’ve been eligible.

  • Two bicyclists.
  • One runner.
  • One motorcyclist.
  • Two full-time telecommuters.
  • One part-time telecommuter.
  • One traditional car commuter. (Freak.)

One of the full-time telecommuters was based in Spain, which was handy because he was available to deal with issues that cropped up while everybody in Redmond was sleeping.

Perhaps to compensate for all the gasoline being saved by his employees, our manager drove an oversized pick-up truck to work.

Category
Old New Thing
Topics
Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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