You can't make this stuff up.
You've just got to love today's subversive guerilla humourists: Liberal Arts Mafia (check out their self-made Propaganda and prepare to pee your pants laughing), i-Mockery, The Corporation, Valley of the Geeks. That last has a special place in my heart:
- They use the term “geek” properly — ie, a computer wonk. All other uses are just, well, WRONG.
- Their selection of banner ads is amusing.
- It's really amusing because I've worked at some of those companies.
Like this one below:
That company really was...er...particular about how it enforced things. Every single product name had to be clearly trademarked — which often necessitated some pretty extensive text rewrites (and the contributing authors were not happy with it, believe you me...such tortured English!) A new term would be introduced almost weekly; and there were never any written guidelines for the trademarking, so departments would bicker back and forth. Things would get rather vituperative. Once, we pinned down someone from the legal department to ask a question about the latest vexing trademark issue. When we got things clarified, we asked if they could email that to us. We were told that the company didn't want to commit anything to email because there was the potential that it could later be used against us in a deposition.
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