Misc

Isn’t it great when you work as a programmer/systems integrator and client employees feel the best use of your times is debugging their desktop problems? After all, it’s not like you have anything better to do!

Still the contracting mantra applies: they’re paying me the same rate, whatever work I do.

From the Jargon Gone Mad file: You’re an employee of Kinkos. You get an email containing the following phrase:

GOOD people are [our most important asset], because those good people repeatedly touch our customers and create positive experiences for them

Is that Kinkos, or Kink-os? You’d never guess they were in the photocopying and printing business, would you?

Whenever I hear phrases like, “touch our customers” my mind slips “inappropriately” in there, so maybe it’s just me, of course.