Mon, Sep. 17th, 2007, 05:26 pm
buzzword bingo

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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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 12:32 am (UTC)
[info]catbear

STAB STAB STAB STAB

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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 12:42 am (UTC)
[info]tskirvin

...

I am in awe at the badness. (Or maybe that's pain.)
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 01:31 am (UTC)
[info]xtingu

no no no no no no no no no no!
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 02:15 am (UTC)
[info]racerxmachina

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.
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 02:23 am (UTC)
[info]pootrootbeer


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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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 02:56 am (UTC)
[info]jwgh

Shouldn't the graphic show it growing out of a big pile of fertilizer?
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 03:24 am (UTC)
[info]erikred

Yeah, I sort of took that as writ.
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 03:34 am (UTC)
[info]ambyr

If your points graph into a beautiful flower. . .it's probably because someone is manipulating the data.
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 03:52 am (UTC)
[info]jdev

...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.
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 07:02 am (UTC)
[info]sunburn

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."
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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 08:45 pm (UTC)
[info]drieuxster: but... but...


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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Tue, Sep. 18th, 2007 12:21 pm (UTC)
[info]heliumbreath

Cosy admins? Are you hiring?
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