Off to a bad start…
Sign #1 this is going to be a bad week, an email from Cliff:
Please welcome Joe Jargon as our new Messiah. Joe brings 5 billion years of experience in [our field] as a layman, architect, sanitary engineer, foreman, and billing clerk. Over the past five years, as a consultant for Buzzword Partners, Joe has been a Executive Whisperer. Joe has been working with [co-founder] to develop a plan for building flying invisible unicorns and hiring his friends from other companies. Welcome, Joe!
Joe Jargon will continue to work with his other client until year’s end — four days a month of travel plus fifteen minutes of him yelling into a cell phone each morning.
Sign #2 this is going to be a bad weeK:
June 25: CIO: “Your new laptop will be here Friday!”
June 30: Captain Sarcastic: “Can I have my laptop now?”
IT lackey: “I just need to configure it. I won’t be able to do this until [insert name of other, delayed project here]”July 11: Captain Sarcastic: “Hey, I have an international trip coming up the week of the 21st. Will you be able to deliver the laptop?”
IT lackey: “Sure, no problem!”July 18: IT lackey: “Your new laptop is not going to be ready next week. We have a lemon DVD drive so we are going to have to send it back and get another one. This is a first.”
July 19: Captain Sarcastic: “What kind of time frame? Can I just have it without the DVD, then we put it in when the part comes in?”
(Today) July 21: IT lackey: “At this point we are having to ship the laptop one back. I’ll speak with [CIO], and see what Dell says about time frame for them to send a replacement.”
Fuck, it’s only Monday.
