Deposed
I went into Chicago for my Oracle deposition today. It was a lot longer than I thought it would be, but it wasn’t terrible. It was in a regular meeting room, with two lawyers from each side, a court stenographer and a videographer. There were a lot of questions, and I answered everything as truthfully as I could (sometimes I just didn’t remember the details).
I had never seen a stenography machine before. This is the weird typewriter that a court reporter uses to type in everything that is said during the proceedings. The stenographer asked me to spell a couple of things, like “Endeca” and “PERL”. That can’t be an easy job.
The whole thing was an interesting experience. I don’t think that I would want to be deposed every week, but it wasn’t awful. I wasn’t really nervous until the cross-examining, since I was worried that they would aggressively try to trip me up. The lawyer said that I was the “least combative” witness that he had ever deposed. I guess that means that I was my usual chipper self.
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