The Downsides To Using A CSBMonkey
While my goal is to post one sort of long, thoughtful post a week, there are certainly going to be instances of just brief observations from my workplace, like this one today.
I suspect that every workplace has a manager or upper level administrative staff person that is a technological fantasist. Someone that is very busy all the time doing their job, yet always feeling overwhelmed and under-organized. I call them technological fantasist because they see or hear about new technology in their peripheral senses but are unable to devote any time to actually researching that technology and all of its good and bad points. Nevertheless, they know about it and have heard rumors about it and have already started constructing fantasies about it. The main fantasy is about how finally, FINALLY this time, this technology is going to do it. This technology is going to work perfectly. This technology is going to get their time and their entire body of disorganized work fully organized and flowing smoothly like glass. The exchange might go a little something like this.
Client: “Yeah, right, but I’ve heard about this monkey that can do this a little better. I’m interested in that.”
Technician: “You do know that the monkey chain smokes, right?”
Client: “Oh really? I’m sure they’ll work that out in an upgrade.”
Technician: “The product is CALLED ‘chain smoking blue monkey’. It’s in the name.”