Lounsbury: Example No. 35 of Criminal Idiocy (expanded)

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February 01, 2005

Example No. 35 of Criminal Idiocy (expanded)

Again on the personal, an illustration of why this organization deserves to go belly up. Their procedures on executing anything are so criminally stupid as to be stunning.

This time, upgrading internal server to a new security level. Fine.

Except they sent the notification (the one and only notification) after they did so. Everyone over here lost all access to the network, etc. etc. etc. Boom, just like that. Lucky for them, I understood after a few moments what had happened (given the [error] message [on trying to connect]) and divined how to get us back up. Me. Not IT, me.

Drooling half-witted baboons. I work with drooling half witted baboons.

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Further, their stupidity is going to make my head explode. One of the big idiots visited recently and an article appeared in the press. I translated it for them. Now, the arty was pretty positive, and it was in the generalist press, so I thought, hey, good press is good. Above all since we suck. What do I get back: request to retranslate the article because it doesn't say something they think it should say. What the fuck do they fucking think, I have a magic wand to edit the arty? It was motherfucking published, it says what it says. Instead of whinging, thank me. I'm not a motherfucking translator, I did it as a mohterfucking favor, although lord the fuck knows why I would do these incompetent cretins any favors at all. Second, they complain that the branding was properly positioned. ..... Again, what am I, the magic foreign press fucking fairy? I sent off a note saying I am usually quite happy when they get our bloody names right, complaining about "positioning" seems a bit rich.

Were I "The Overseas Marketing Department" I might feel responsible for these things, but since I am not, I don't. Above all as I wince in trying to get our services out the door, rather feeling as if all items should come with the caveat: "Yes, We Suck, and Home Office will change deliverables according to some inscrutable moronic whim of their own, and thus leave you with crap, and then they will ask me to make the case that 'our model is different'" - although why the bloody castrated fuck the client should care about our 'model' rather than the deliverable entirely fucking escapes me, and how they think I could actually stand with a straight face before the gullible morons who have had the bad luck to work with us to date and say, "Yes, the deliverable sucked and this is not really what you signed up for, but hey, our model is different."

Different from what? I would say different from competent, well run firms. We very much prefer to play off of some entirely undeserved reputation obtained I think through political corruption or something similar, perhaps bribery, and stumble around in our newest sucker markets delivering crap.

And I thought building new business would be challenging and interesting use of my talents here. Rather, it leads me to occasional bouts of near suicidal depression at how entirely stupid I was for signing up with these incompetent bumbling deranged fucking baboons, for whom to become magical talking baboons would be such an advance forward that I almost can not imagine ..... The solace is my local director feels the same way. The only thing we have in common, besides not really liking eachother, is our utter contempt for these drooling sub-moron baboon filth. It does make for interesting lunch convos. Between sniping at each other, we can sincerely commiserate over how decieved we are. At least I know it's not just me. Mass resignation is right out though.

February 01, 2005

Example No. 35 of Criminal Idiocy (expanded)

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