Rock with eyes award
Back in my customer service days, we had a trophy the office manager had made up of an old sports trophy, a nice red triangular rock, and googly eyes from the craft store. It was a silly award, given for good ideas in later or mockingly to mind-numbingly clueless customers, vendors, or ourselves …
I’ve been going through my papers for year-end, and came across a notebook I kept in my corporate days, listing the bug reports and software improvements I’d recommended over the previous year. I was aiming for one a week for a year but didn’t quite make my goal. I wonder if they took up any of the suggestions, or if any were in the pipeline and are now out there (even if I didn’t come up with it first).
And it’s funny; that’s why I started in this business – not liking some of the bugs and usability annoyances of software. Wanting to do something about it, and getting there by suggesting fixes and writing down what needed to be worked around, teaching my co-workers back in the day to use *NIX based software on terminals and in emulation environments.
Happy New Year, happy bug and feature hunting!