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I'm the kind of person that believes its critical to find little ways to enjoy yourself at work. The kind of things that don't hurt anyone, but instead bring you great joy. But despite my best intention these almost always come back to haunt me.
For example, when I was first starting up at Bungie, I set up an automatic email signature.
I decided that in between my first and last name I would add lyrics of a song as a hidden message in a font so small that it was invisible to the naked eye.
It was something no one ever saw, but these silly hidden lyrics still gave me a little joy every time I wrote a mail.
I had them in my signature for a little over a year, until I finally realized that if you used the outlook app on your phone it normalized my signature and SET ALL THE FONT TO THE SAME SIZE.
I realized this not when some kind coworker warned me, but instead when the founder of Bungie sent me a mail saying. "Uhh, I'm not sure what this means...do you still want to meet?"
This was strange because what I thought I sent him was, "Sounds good Jason
Joe Blackburn"
Joe Blackburn"
but what he read on his phone was..
Sounds good Jason. Joe WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WAS AT HOME CRYING ALL ALONE ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR, 'CAUSE HE'S HUNGRY AND THE ONLY WAY TO FEED HIM IS TO SLEEP WITH A MAN FOR A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY, AND HIS DADDY'S GONE Blackburn
Sounds good Jason. Joe WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WAS AT HOME CRYING ALL ALONE ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR, 'CAUSE HE'S HUNGRY AND THE ONLY WAY TO FEED HIM IS TO SLEEP WITH A MAN FOR A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY, AND HIS DADDY'S GONE Blackburn
Anyway I write my signature manually every time now.
