Knights among toner cartridges ( infosec.pub )

(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Fixbeat ,

I swear that I have worked in a place like this, all the way down to the stupid exposed ducts. This must be the corporate prison that our overlords have decided on.

Betch ,
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Could be the cubicle of a 911 dispatcher. Although it looks too clean and it doesn’t have like 3 keyboards and mice instead of a KVM.

stanka ,

I WFH now (thank you covid), but my jobs have been in similarly drab cubes and offices.

The work is dynamic and fast-paced. Having crazy lights and crap on the walls would not improve the work.

ranoss ,

Much rather wake up, eat a coffee cake.

bstix ,

Answering the phone:

“Yes, this is Glenn from very important global company, how may I help you? Okay, thank you for calling. I will need to check that with our local team in Barcelona. Oh, you know Anthony? Terrific guy. I’ll get right back to you on that. If you have any more specific enquiries for our Barcelona team, you can contact them by logging into the web portal. Remember to check your email for the verification of your user registration which you will need to logon to our excellent online support service. Can I help you with anything else today, sir? Have a pleasant day.”

Turning to manager.

“We need to fire Anthony. Yes some dude called Anthony in Barcelona is causing customer contact. How am I supposed to make the daily EBITDA reports on time when my phone is ringing constantly?!”

xmunk ,

Yea, but that picture doesn’t convey the thumping techno your cubeighbor has running constantly because I’ve got ADHD and that shit is serenity for me.

isles ,

My first full-time job, I had the Creative Zen MP3 player, boasting 14 hours of playback and a gigabytes of storage. Looking back, the only way I made it through successfully was that device. And Napster et al. I’m sure. Long live thumping beats! (Thank you for listening to my talk).

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