You also, in Dilbert, hear the occasional joke about attaching yourself to something with a buzzword, like, oh, 'Palm Pilot'. It's accurate. People in the company who I've never seen or talked to come to my cubicle to chat about Palm stuff (apparently we announced that it would be available to customers soon). They don't want to hear about what I'm doing now, which is helping to make sure our real web site works. They're interested in the Palm Pilot stuff.
I must, I think, find more buzzword-laden projects and attach myself to them, remora-like, finding blissful peace in their buzzwordy goodness and the ensuing popularity thereof.
That said, Palm Pilots are neat little widgets. If I keep myself remora'd onto the Palm thingie (well, really, I'm not remora'd - it's almost entirely MY code, now, and the only other guy who was working with it has better things to do. It's mine! All mine! Ahahahaha!!!) maybe they'll let me hang onto this IIIx I managed to get my hands on for 'testing purposes'.
Life is good. Well, for now, at least. When the customers begin breaking the code and complaining, it will be less good. But that's the way things work.
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