yes, i'm back from camping

[rone]

I got this via a contact on LinkedIn:

Company: Wowkast
Job Title: Front & Back-End Web Developers - Consumer Web Startup
Description: Wowkast is seeking talented individuals with a range of front and back end expertise. We are on the hunt for developers that view software development as a craft as much as it is a science. [...]

About Us:
Wowkast is building a new multimedia-empowered way to communicate.

Assuming they needed a sysadmin, we'd have to start salary negotiations at US$150k just to get past the embarrassment of working for a company called Wowkast.  Holy shit what a wretched turd of a name that is.  And, sweet fucking jesus, "a new multimedia-empowered way to communicate"?  It's official: the Bubble is back.  We're fucking doomed.

Comments

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's the new thing: increasingly stupid startup company names?

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

"I just started at Wowkast."
"That's nothing! I'm starting at DickShout next week."
"I had to turn down the offer from NoodleBoyToy."
"I can top you all - DogBalls is making me wait for a background check."

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I worked for Dogballs until Stained Pork gave me an offer I couldn't refuse.

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

By the way, I've been meaning to ask -- did anything come of that feeler you got from Fetid Wank Storm?

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

Well, it was just a lead-in to another job through Holy Cow Now, but I was tired of supporting their capitalist ways.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

"All the good ones were taken."

[gallifreyan.livejournal.com]

Dude.

You worked for Macromedia.

Now you have shame?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, working for six years at an established company with a name that doesn't suck. I mean, six years, that's like your last five jobs combined.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

'MacroMedia' is early-90s buzzword salad, and was roundly mocked back in the day. It was slightly better than their previous name, 'MacroMind', but mostly because it mitigated the new age trappings.

Financial success validates sucky names. Say it often enough and it sounds less silly. Witness DreamWeaver, Flash (originally FutureSplash Animator), Google, Yahoo!, Apple, Microsoft or Hummer.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure about financial success, exactly, as much as just hanging around long enough that the word becomes acceptable (much like semantic drift), which, sure, depends on some financial success.

Yahoo! still looks stupid, though.

[kawgirl.livejournal.com]

seeking talented individuals with a range of front and back end expertise...

If I had just seen this part, I'd think they were looking for porn stars.

[reddragdiva]

Much of the practical side of sysadminning is very similar.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

But the recovery period's shorter for purveyors of the erotic arts, as we all know.

[kawgirl.livejournal.com]

You mean SysAdmins don't have fluffers?

[mskala.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it.

[internebbish.livejournal.com]

I'll break out the tulip bulbs. Didn't hear them use my other favorite dotbomb term, "Marketing space." Oh well, hope springs eternal.

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

Dude, "marketing space" is nothing compared to "Interactive AJAX-enabled community-driven folksonomy beta"! Bubble 2.0 makes Legacy Bubble look mild-mannered.

I'm still offering my boot up the arse of anyone who can say "folksonomy" with a straight face.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I'm still offering my boot up the arse of anyone who can say "folksonomy" with a straight face.

Try the nearest library school. You'll get a workout.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Time to invest heavily and then punt as soon as it looks shaky?

More Lofty Talk

[rotojeff.livejournal.com]

that view software development as a craft as much as it is a science.

Anybody who embellishes in the job description like that is just asking for similarly embellished resumes.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Any company that actually mentions "front and back end expertise" is basically promising SURPRISE BUTTSECKS!

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

HahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA