Thursday, January 24, 2008

Snarkety Snark-Snark

I despise 'sales-speak'. Despise. When I saw this handy, pointed reminder on our alerts dashboard at work, I promptly sent it on to fellow pushers-back-against-the-dark, with my comments (because how would the world rotate without my comments?):

$[insert very large number here].00 is our goal! Bring it home with purpose!

What the flip?
As if making a ton of money has a higher meaning. Morons.


Later in the day I received this piece of art:

It came with a tempting offer of gaining 20 bucks if I used it as my screensaver for a week--a figurative one-finger salute for all to see but only the clever to parse. After a brief internal struggle, I demurred. It was a struggle, though, believe me.


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