A group of engineers led by a couple of foreigners came barging into my lab today looking for a computer notebook. The duo - one a white guy who has an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Spacey and the other a middle aged Mexican - are supposed to be somekind of ‘important experts’ from the States, you see… here to support the newly launched notebook model in Company X. They herded the group into the lab with a deep sense of urgency without saying a word to anyone and straight away congregated in front of my bench, totally disregarding my presence (I was reading some comics). Then one of them pointed out to some of my computer parts and started to bullshit to the group…

“This is it. It was dismantled by bla bla bla and we’re suppose to bla bla bla [insert a bunch of nonsensical corporate jargons]”

Now, this may sound perfectly normal for someone who doesn’t know what’s going on here. The thing is, the specimen that they’re looking at was a completely different product and was TOTALLY NOT what they’re looking for. The 2 of them were obviously making a big boner and didn’t even know about it. The ironic sense of the whole thing was, they are suppose to be the ‘experts’ for the project, and they are here to make things easier and shit. But how come they couldn’t even recognize the product that they’re suppose to know well like the back of their hands? Making an unforgiving mistake like this is akin to having a gynaecologist recognizing your pubic hair as the fallopian tube… A bunch of fucking posers and douchebags, that’s what they are.

I intended to counter their rudeness and arrogance by hollering at them, but decided to play nice in the end, after weighting in the troubles I’m gonna get for doing that… so I politely asked Mister Kevin Spacey and George fucking Lopez this instead -

“May I help you, gentlemen?”

One of them replied, in a faked courtesy,
“Oh, I’m sorry. We’re here to look at the recent issue of [insert nonsensical description of some shit only he knows]”

“Well, I have no idea what you’re talking about, but you can look for your stuff at the trolley over there [points]. Somebody left them there a couple days ago. The thing you’re looking here is mine, and a totally different product.”

Oops. Embarassed, the 2 douchebags then went over to the trolley to get their stuff and left the lab not long after that. I reckoned that if they’re ostriches, they would have buried their hollow heads into a hole somewhere. But sadly, they aren’t. Instead, they are real people claiming themselves to be ‘managers’ that are revered by many and are extremely overpaid in wages for their ‘not so technical’ expertise. Hell. From what I see, it seems more like they’re being paid to be pricks than anything else… part of the inexplicable things that happen in the corporate world… (maybe that’s what it takes to be successful - acting like pricks and being stupid…)