Friday, February 15, 2002
I pull stitches out with my teeth |11:08 AM|
The man my department reports to at Dell used to be portrayed rather poorly. Now that we've got most of this printin' situation hammered out, he isn't looking like such a bad character anymore. He's just fully policy driven. I guess the difference is that now we know there really isn't malice involved. This isn't really an apology, since I don't think he'll ever, ever, hear about this page, but I felt that I had to paint him less as a bad guy.
I was at a computer store a little while ago, and I observed a couple total goddamn losers. One was the guy running the Apple store. He looked about 30, with a sun leathered face that wrinkled like someone had balled up a napkin and then done a piss poor job flattening it out. He was hitting on a girl that couldn't have been more than 18, who obviously wanted to be anywhere else. Both were store employees, the girl was walking a slow loop up and down the aisles of software. Her unsure gait made it clear she couldn't figure out a proper excuse to walk away from the guy, and she kept tracing lines with her finger across the endcaps, obviously hoping to get caught up in the task of cleaning them. The apple guy's body language was trying to be non threatening but instead emitted pure sleaziness, and from what snatches of conversation I happened to hear while I was looking at some memory upgrades made it clear the guy was talking all things Apple and Apple sales. I'm not saying this guy was a loser for being a fan of Apple, but he seemed to think that merely spewing the same stupid technology crapola that he got a hard on for would cause the girl to tear off her clothes and demand to be ravaged "RIGHT HERE!. Near the GARDENING software!". It was educational, in the sense that it pounded home the point "know your audience" and "don't hit on women half your age". I think the partial encounter has stuck with me because I felt the need to go slap the guy around, if only to let the girl escape. (She later pounced on the first customer looking at monitors with a "Hi-do-you-need-any-help?" leaving the apple guy to go rub up against an Imac)
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