Sadly Appropriate.

E.T.C.E.T.: Electronic Transforming Construct Engineered for Troubleshooting



[this for a guy who just took a phone call telling someone how to change their font size. . .

"I want it to be eleven, and the little box says it's eleven, and when it prints, it looks wrong."

"Okay, let's make it 12 [ctrl-a, dropdown box to 12 *yawn* (yes, i know i could have told him ctrl-], but that would have confused him)]."

"hey, that's what it's supposed to look like. you want to drive over and kick me in the ass?"

"No, tony, i'll wait until you come by the office."

Dear Amazon:

Fuck the cookie cutter cover letter. . .

[thanks to masque__ for the shove]

In a world of hyper-nuanced specialists, isn't it nice to know you can find one person who's pretty good at a wide range of things, and, no matter what the task, can communicate quickly, clearly, and with the right attitude to whomever they're working with? In days gone by, the Jack of All Trades was a valued member of society - able to throw in with most any of the specialists to get a particular task done in a timely manner.

While this role isn't gone altogether, it's seldom a part of any Org Chart. Finding out that the copier repair guy dabbles in Photoshop, or the Administrative Assistant is a wizard when it comes to resurrecting a crashed workstation is the modern workplace's iteration.

I am that guy. Jack of All Trades, master of none that anyone pays a living wage for. ;-)