The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Monday, February 28, 2022

The process of starting at a company I've worked at for a decade

[I almost used the word “on-boarding” in the title, but then I realized that's marketspeak and I don't want to use marketspeak as I find the synergism incondusive to the synchronistic harmonizing of perpendicular incentives. Or something like that. I digress … ]

Now that the Corporate Overlords are in full Borg mode (“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”) I just have to laugh at the process. Last Friday, I was sent instructions about signing up to the Corporate Overlords' Gitlab instance in email. The email consisted of “Here's the steps” followed by an image of the list of items to do, where the first item consisted of a few steps, the last of which was:

… and send an email to some-address-

followed by the text “thk.” So I wrote back saying the instructions appeared to be cut off partway through. Today I received a reply. The reply consisted of a Microsoft Word document, which included an image of the list of items to do, where the first item consisted of a few steps, the last of which was:

… and send an email to some-address-

followed by the text “thk.”

That is comedy gold right there.

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