Wow, so I know some people that work in the Austin offices. I haven't heard back from one of them. It is kind of freaky, to think that could happen to me in my current office. It makes me think that my car being stolen could have been a pissed off taxpayer. Right now we are all just talking about it. Nothing is happening in Dallas. I remember hearing when I first arrived at this office that the guy who did the OKC Federal Building staked out the one I am in right now, but he couldn't park his car close enough so he picked OKC.

It is also weird that the guy who did this is some kind of disenfranchised Software Engineer who got audited. Do I feel sorry for him? No way. He is a nutjob. I have worked with some nutjobs in the past. The engineering kind can be a social misfit because their primary interaction is with a computer and not people. I read his manifesto. He talked about the history of developers over the years. Yes, we did have some major setbacks like the .Com bust, but the reality is we are more compensated than a majority of people in the US. I understand that the upper middle class supports a majority of America through our taxes, but it is much better to work with the system than against it.

Coming from a software engineer at the IRS I can tell you that this guy is not a representative of any engineer. He had some kind of skewed point of view that is validated by his own circumstances. Through each turn in his life he experienced events that led to his feeling that they are out to get him. His paranoia and snapping after getting audited tied everything together into evil. I think I will now take a step back and make sure I don't take my job too seriously. Life is good. I shall enjoy it while I can.