Crazy 'bout a Sharpie-Dressed Man
May. 7th, 2004 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterSo, a couple weeks back, not long after we'd gotten the news we were going to be laid off, there was this big pep rally type thing, mainly for the sales side who gets to stay on, and everybody—including we poor customer service peons—got these T-shirts with a picture of a surfer riding a wave and the motto "Takin' it Vertical! Supercharged in 2Q!" (That's the thing about working here...you'll never run out of T-shirts.)
Anyway, so we, who are being laid off, are given these cheerful T-shirts about how kewl this quarter is going to be. (A week or so earlier, I got my "one year anniversary" lapel pin, along with a form-letter note about how they looked forward to celebrating future anniversaries with me. Everything takes on a tinge of irony when you're being laid off.) It occurred to me that the slogan on the shirt was fundamentally incorrect...but this was simple enough to remedy with the aid of a Sharpie marker. I simply drew a line through "SUPER" and wrote in underneath it "DIS," and suddenly the shirt was accurate again. (I suppose I could also have crossed out "VERTICAL" and written in "TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE," but there really wasn't enough space for that.)
I then wore the shirt to work, and everyone in my bay thought it was hilarious, and my cow-orkers all said that they should do that to their own shirts. My supervisor said it was the funniest thing he'd seen all week, and immediately had to call his wife to tell her about it. Even the manager got a good chuckle out of it, though he felt obligated to point out that we were actually getting discharged at the end of the 2Q, not during it.
Anyway, at the moment I'm sitting in Ziggie's South with the tail end of breakfast next to my laptop, typing away on this entry and getting ready to go in to work. Not much more to say at this point, so I guess I won't say much more.
Anyway, so we, who are being laid off, are given these cheerful T-shirts about how kewl this quarter is going to be. (A week or so earlier, I got my "one year anniversary" lapel pin, along with a form-letter note about how they looked forward to celebrating future anniversaries with me. Everything takes on a tinge of irony when you're being laid off.) It occurred to me that the slogan on the shirt was fundamentally incorrect...but this was simple enough to remedy with the aid of a Sharpie marker. I simply drew a line through "SUPER" and wrote in underneath it "DIS," and suddenly the shirt was accurate again. (I suppose I could also have crossed out "VERTICAL" and written in "TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE," but there really wasn't enough space for that.)
I then wore the shirt to work, and everyone in my bay thought it was hilarious, and my cow-orkers all said that they should do that to their own shirts. My supervisor said it was the funniest thing he'd seen all week, and immediately had to call his wife to tell her about it. Even the manager got a good chuckle out of it, though he felt obligated to point out that we were actually getting discharged at the end of the 2Q, not during it.
Anyway, at the moment I'm sitting in Ziggie's South with the tail end of breakfast next to my laptop, typing away on this entry and getting ready to go in to work. Not much more to say at this point, so I guess I won't say much more.