Today my job mostly involved a lot of clickity-clicking up and down the office halls in high heels, full of Righteous Indignation. Also it required a lot of being brave, tracking down important people and saying important things that make sense, and trying to change stuff to make it better. All this I did and more, using technical manager vocabulary like “improvement opportunity” and ”client satisfaction” in the same sentence. I find the necessity for this kind of semantic pedantry so annoying that it breaks my English major heart in ways that only Grisham or Crichton could match. “Business-lingo for Dummies” might do the trick, too. I mean why can’t we just say “you suck” and “they’re pissed”?
But really, with or without the kind of vocabulary that comes out of a twenty dollar yellow preschool primer, some of the guys I work with would have a hard time making a decision even with a hot poker held to their iris.
So as of four pm I have been seriously contemplating one of the following options for tomorrow:
- Going out on my lunch hour and coming back with dreadlocks and a full face tattoo.
- Bringing in a special treat in the form of hash-laced brownies (No, I haven’t gone completely mad- I don’t intend to actually bake. I live 2 hrs from Amsterdam where I can get store-bought. God bless Amsterdam.)
- Pulling down my pants and pooing directly onto my keyboard.
- All of the above.
August 28th, 2008 at
I say you do whatever the little blue claymen say to…
Should I tell you about the website, steepandcheap??
http://www.steepandcheap.com
Enjoy
August 29th, 2008 at
are you ready for me to come back? do you miss me so much?
it’s okay if you do.
i really like your blog. i find it way more entertaining than mine…
is paolo going to make one now too?
BLOG WARS! (the new star wars)
September 23rd, 2008 at
Blogs are for people who don’t do enough sport.