Friday, January 24, 2014

A typical work exchange


Boss: "I've had an email from China"

Me: "It's spam. We get them regularly"

Boss: "But I was thinking, do we need a Chinese domain name? How important is the Chinese market going to be to us in the future?"

Me: "It will be important. They're changing various laws at the moment in response to events in the west."

Boss: "So do we need a Chinese domain name?"

Me: "I think our priority should be to sort out our UK site for now."

Me thinking "Your priority ought to be sorting out those figures that I need so I can finish the annual report. Why are you pi&&ing about with Chinese spam?"

Boss: "But wouldn't it be more impressive."

Me: "They are being influenced by what goes on in the west. If we had a working website here we could always add a couple of Chinese pages to it in the future."

Me thinking: "Which bit of that didn't you get in the first place... influenced by the west....."

Boss: "So we don't need one."

Me: "Maybe if we had an office in China it would be different."

Boss: silly laugh

Me: "If we ever need something in China we can ask our academic partner if we can hitch some pages onto their site. They have a Chinese office."

Boss: "Oh yes. Good idea.

Me: "And the first thing we could ask them is whether to put it in Mandarin or Cantonese."

Boss: "Interesting. It's good to have your perspective on the importance of overseas domain names."

Me: (Thinking) "Just shut up and go away."
 
 
 
Based on an actual event

4 comments:

snafu said...

I read the Dilbert cartoon regularly, you sure you did not lift it from that? Sounds a lot like life imitating art.

Unknown said...

I think we all need someone at times to speak up and say "that's a stupid idea, go to your room!"

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Hilary Melton-Butcher said...

Hi Anne .. sounds typical procrastination ... and not at all helpful .. do what needs to be done now! Cheers and well done for deflecting him (presumably!) .. have a good weekend - Hilary