My biz has an expession… “Dog and Pony Show”. It is where we stand up in front of people we want to make things for, and they shoot holes in our stuff, we roll with it and make it work out anyway, and if we’ve convinced them we aren’t freakish geeks with zero talent, then maybe, just maybe, they will let us build things for them.
One could be excused for saying “Oh, you’re techno-whores!” We’re not actually. Mostly. We do hard things that other people won’t do. And it is fun.
Today I was given a new name that I think I will run with… “Captain Sarcasm”!
(I will wear that title with pride)
So for the next two days I may be hip deep in dog and pony poo, but when we come up to breathe, I will have some fun things to point out in the engineering world – nothing to do with anything I am working on. Other way cool stuff.
The problem with dog&pony shows is that the Buyers are the ones bringing the fleas to the product.
I was surprised… They were very easy to work with and I do not have to be present tomorrow. This is a good thing because there is much else to keep me from being idle.
All in all I cannot complain. Much. :)
I’ve even had a buyer who insisted upon a certain type of imported flea that was far more aggressive and nearly bled the dogs, ponies, and us dry.
Captain Sarcasm? Geez, ya slacker…you should be at least a major or a colonel by now.
I keep getting busted down for my “issues with authority figures”.
Actually did ask the boss during a company meeting how a guy could get out of the ______ outfit. Luckily he has a lot of patience with my ‘tude.
Wow. That’s a well-trained boss! Mine are usually just the opposite.
My current boss was really the first friend I made in Michigan so he cuts this Oregon boy a bit of slack – you can take a redneck engineer out of the Oregon woods but you can’t take the redneck out of the redneck engineer or something like that.
Captain Sarcasm, leader of the Snark Patrol?
Bring a shovel to sift through the poo. Hopefully there’ll be a pony in there.
Good luck with the show, looking forward to hearing about the cool stuff. Wish I could share…