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Wonder Walls

Oct
2008
03

posted by on City of Newcastle, eBay

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When visiting my cubicle for the first time, people say one of two things: “Wow. It’s so…colorful…over here”, or “Do you work for eBay?” This is because my cubicle is plastered with just about every piece of event material I’ve created during the year, and a LOT of family photos. Family that includes many, many, [...]

posted by on eBay, Video

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As I understand it, doctors and soldiers develop a sense of ‘black comedy’ as a response to the pressures of death all around them. I think something similar happens to everyone who works in a call center for any good length of time. In the case of eBay Customer Service, you literally have the ENTIRE [...]

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Catching up on a week’s worth of all my informative but non-essential blog reader items (i.e. the non-dooce-wwdn-erin-stacey-kristy-gapingvoid-ninja type items), I came across the following video of my dear friend, Uncle Griff, promoting that whole Bike to Work Day thingie that happened, what, like a month ago? I don’t know. I don’t bike. I use [...]

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I love Fake Steve Jobs. I really do. I think the swift sharp blade of his pen is something to envy, but sometimes? He gets a little monotonous. Today I was considering deleting him from my feed, thinking, ah, Steve, I just don’t care about Linux. or Woz. Or SDK. I don’t even care about [...]

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And I may just have to eat my words about execs being boring. There are some really good blogs on that list, and some serious resumes. The eBay Blog Wiki launched February 13 and was created by Shri Mahesh. I don’t know who he is. In fact, the only name I even vaguely recognize is [...]