Sun Microsystems intra-departmental water fights: a non-HR-safe tradition: We only did it once because no work got done for about a month, he said. SunLabs built a mannequin piss statue, a 20-foot catapult to shoot water balloons, and a plexiglass minicar to keep ex-director Wayne Rosen dry. It also hired a helicopter and a water truck and broadcasted from the roof. Were sleeping with your spouses, youll never win... The video shows a troop of women in combat fatigues emerging from the building with water gun packs on their backs and black grease smeared under their eyes. The group includes Liz Kniss, Suns outreach person and former mayor of Palo Alto, and Michele Huff, SunLabs legal counsel. Northcutt types in Zander (SunSofts former leader) and finds all the frames with him in it. The all-womens brigade gave Zander [quite a bath], Northcutt explains. (Other SunLabs research revelations? Normally attractive people look pretty heinous on a still frame.) SunLabs won. They outnumbered us, but we out-technologized them, Northcutt says. Tactics and style over brute force! shouts a random pony tailed engineer, his arms raised in a victory cheer. The SunLabs approach impresses my liberal arts major mentality. It drives home the point that engineering can have a real effect on peoples lives, maybe more than ideas.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:57:40 +0000
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