Jandel Scientific Software
Jandel Scientific was my first employer out of college. I first started there as a temporary tester in the Quality Assurance Department, testing SigmaStat v1.0 for Windows. I then started working on SigmaPlot v1.02 for Windows. Eventually, a position opened in the Technical Support Department which I took.

I worked there for a total of three years, including one year in the Quality Assurance Department. During my last year, we merged with SPSS, a statistical software company located in Chicago. There was a lot of interesting email and stories that accumulated over that time, and thought I'd share some of it here. It was a lot of fun working there, and I had the opportunity to work with some great people - I really miss it, as we had a company culture that was quite unique.

Note: I did remove the names of people, companies and universities as appropriate to protect the guilty.

SigmaPlot 3.0 ships

First law of marketing: Sex Sells

Shocking revelations

When did we add this feature to SigmaPlot?

Passwords

What was that server password again?

SigmaStat Tests

Every Statistician's least favorite question: "What test should I use?"

Volleyball

Our very talented volleyball team "strikes" again...

Volleyball Top 10

Our volleyball team's recruitment tactic

Jandel Europe Top 10

SigmaPlot Product Manager goes to our office in Germany

Connor hard drives

Connor passes the buck...

Pinnacle's QA

Or more accurately, lack of QA, as Glen discovered one day...

New QA Engineer

Why rabbits make bad quality assurance engineers

Rev's hacking

What Rev was really up to late at work...

Alarm troubles

Glen sets off the alarm while sitting on the toilet...

Loaded HR questions

Questions that you don't answer honestly

Mohan

Immortalized, though he only worked with us for two months

QA is now a brewery

Erik's surprise when returning to the office...

The last harrah

Jandel's final day

Joe's final email

Joe Osborn's final email as President