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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2007-09-17 05:26 pm
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I saw a Silicon Valley flyer on Facebook for The IT Flower.  I showed it to my boss and cosysadmins.  The derision in our office was off the scale.  I would really like to see the negative form of the flower, where the axes go off into How Work Doesn't Get Done and Types of Work Avoidance.

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[identity profile] catbear.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
STAB STAB STAB STAB

[identity profile] tskirvin.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
...

I am in awe at the badness. (Or maybe that's pain.)
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[personal profile] xtingu 2007-09-18 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
no no no no no no no no no no!

[identity profile] racerxmachina.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not IT here, but, um, the last time someone tried to sell me on some "flower" metaphor bullshit, it was in the 5th grade, next to my science teacher's poorly drawn chalkboard image of a uterus.

[identity profile] pootrootbeer.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 02:23 am (UTC)(link)

This guy's even more successful at intentionally-bad empty corporate media parody than Tim and Eric, unless he's serious about this, in which case STAB STAB STAB STAB
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[personal profile] jwgh 2007-09-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't the graphic show it growing out of a big pile of fertilizer?

[identity profile] erikred.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I sort of took that as writ.

[identity profile] ambyr.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
If your points graph into a beautiful flower. . .it's probably because someone is manipulating the data.
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[identity profile] xlerb.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
...AAAGH DEAR JESUS WTF.

Thankfully I wasted only 20s or so of my life on that, having muted the sound and made strategic use of the slider control thing.

[identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Let's see-- types of Work Avoidance ranges from "Totally goofing off" to "Goldbricking" and How Work Doesn't Get Done ranges from "Impenetrable Bureaucracy (i.e. obstructed by others)" to "Singular Incompetence."

but... but...

[identity profile] drieuxster.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)

If it is your job to form the useless meetings, then isn't one's own Singular Incompetence that the Impenetrable Bureaucracy has achieved, well Entropy Of A Black Hole!!!

So try to understand that there is an alternative to 'never take a meeting with idiots' and that is to be the person who gets paid to be RatBert...
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[identity profile] heliumbreath.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Cosy admins? Are you hiring?
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