Sales department: We think marketing should only focus on activities that bring in leads immediately.
Me: But we should also do branding exercises designed to promote our company’s identity. Some time in the future that might bring in leads too.
Sales department: (Spits on me)
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I.T. department: It looks like a problem with the mySQL database.
Me: Shouldn’t you have made sure it was a viable franchise before doing a sequel?
I.T. department: (Spits on me)
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Finance department: Hooray! We’re done with the 2003 numbers.
Me: Here’s a late invoice from our 2003 search engine optimization project.
Finance department: (Spits on me)
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All departments: We have highly specialized skills that help us carry the company forward. What do you do?
Me: We hire vendors to do all our work for us. And sometimes we sit around and think of stuff that’s cool and then we send out a press release about it.
Everyone: (Spits on me)
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Still, at the end of the day, I get to go home with T-shirts that have our company logo.
and spit on them?
Sounds to me like you need to talk to your HR department about their hiring practices. Someone is hiring way too many camels and llamas around there.
I’m pretty sure I have the honor of being the least-specialized generalist employee of my entire organization. No one knows why I’m here, but they know they have to return my phone calls.
drat, casey got to the llamas joke first. well, at least you have the t-shirts. are they in cool colors and stuff?
perhaps, in your culture, spitting is meant as a form of respect? or maybe they just feel you could use a shower?
*spits on you*
EV and I are in the same boat. I know where everything is, and how to get around all the systems. Those are my marketable skills.
Sounds like a Gallagher concert or a Jenna movie
Well, my corporation doesn’t even have a logo, let alone marketing - take that! Oh, we have a letterhead, it’s got some arrows that are supposed to represent trees. It also features a house (pentagon w/window). When the ED indicated that our letterhead page needed to represent the equal housing logo, someone added a second little ‘stick figure house’ to the same letterhead. How’s THAT for marketing? There’s also a karaoke-style bouncing ball from ‘house a’ to the dotted ‘i’ in our name. I guess it’s supposed to be mountains. I’m pretty sure that the whole thing was ‘designed’ in Word.
At least nobody spits on me.
Ok, now I am more convinced than ever that we must work at the same place. Come by my cube… I sit upstairs on the southeast corner by the windows. Mine is the one with the noose dangling from the ceiling
If a company’s logo doesn’t somehow incorporate a pirate, I ain’ workin’ thar.
Arrrr!!
Heh.
I was planning to put something awesomely witty under the ‘heh’, but alas, it did not come into fruition.
*spits on y..
..No, that’s it.
You know, I’ve worked at this company for almost three years, and I *still* don’t have a t-shirt that has the company logo. Maybe I should become a copy writer.