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Huh? Corp - "We do stuff"
"We use catchy names for our job titles, like Vision Guidance Leader instead of Consultant. Cool names make us sound smarter and more clever."
"We use catchy names for our job titles, like Vision Guidance Leader instead of Consultant. Cool names make us sound smarter and more clever."
This post was deleted for the following reason: ye olde doublepost
Hey, I remember 1999. Too bad Zeldman doesn't.
I, for one, am not impressed with titles. For those that are, I've come to recognize that being able to mirror one's title into that of another organization, say the client's, is very important to not only establish heirachy and boundries, but also a civil degree of seriousness.
Should you pop into my workplace with a business card denoting you as "Chief Exalted Cyclops for Quasi-human Interactivity", aside from a punch in the balls, you'll never do business with us. That I guarantee.
Put on a collared shirt, maybe a tie if you have to, and call yourself what you are, not what you'd like to be.
posted by jsavimbi at 4:26 PM on April 27, 2005
I, for one, am not impressed with titles. For those that are, I've come to recognize that being able to mirror one's title into that of another organization, say the client's, is very important to not only establish heirachy and boundries, but also a civil degree of seriousness.
Should you pop into my workplace with a business card denoting you as "Chief Exalted Cyclops for Quasi-human Interactivity", aside from a punch in the balls, you'll never do business with us. That I guarantee.
Put on a collared shirt, maybe a tie if you have to, and call yourself what you are, not what you'd like to be.
posted by jsavimbi at 4:26 PM on April 27, 2005
OMFG! That is so hilarious! +1+1+1+1
posted by mrblondemang at 4:27 PM on April 27, 2005
posted by mrblondemang at 4:27 PM on April 27, 2005
Golden.
I hope the people behind Huh? get tasked to implement more creovative satirical web e-solutions. I'd look forward to out-checking some of their deliverables.
posted by nyterrant at 4:28 PM on April 27, 2005
I hope the people behind Huh? get tasked to implement more creovative satirical web e-solutions. I'd look forward to out-checking some of their deliverables.
posted by nyterrant at 4:28 PM on April 27, 2005
Scam I Am
Management consulting is a giant fraud! OK, we knew that. But what Martin Kihn reveals in his entertaining new book is just what miserable lives these know-nothing "experts" lead. [Salon - requires free day pass]
posted by ericb at 5:08 PM on April 27, 2005
Management consulting is a giant fraud! OK, we knew that. But what Martin Kihn reveals in his entertaining new book is just what miserable lives these know-nothing "experts" lead. [Salon - requires free day pass]
posted by ericb at 5:08 PM on April 27, 2005
Because of course, a "Executive Vice-President of Department" would never stoop so low as to meet a "Consultant", but a "Vision Guidance Leader" could fool them into a meeting where they get dirty lower-tier worker germs on them.
The hierarchy mindset of corporate culture leads to the executives being sheltered by several layers of filtering from the everyday workers, the lowest tier. When an executive is comfortable enough communicating with his subordinates' subordinates, he hears the unpleasant truths he needs to. This is frowned upon when either the executive or the middle-manager boss isn't doing their job, because it gets pointed out, and even the smallest emperor is furious when someone says he's naked.
If they give wedgies to anyone entering the building with a tie, I'm selling my firstborn for an internship there.
posted by Saydur at 5:26 PM on April 27, 2005
The hierarchy mindset of corporate culture leads to the executives being sheltered by several layers of filtering from the everyday workers, the lowest tier. When an executive is comfortable enough communicating with his subordinates' subordinates, he hears the unpleasant truths he needs to. This is frowned upon when either the executive or the middle-manager boss isn't doing their job, because it gets pointed out, and even the smallest emperor is furious when someone says he's naked.
If they give wedgies to anyone entering the building with a tie, I'm selling my firstborn for an internship there.
posted by Saydur at 5:26 PM on April 27, 2005
Vision Guidance Leader? Cool, I had no idea this company had its own optometrists. They must be really committed to health care.
posted by rolypolyman at 5:36 PM on April 27, 2005
posted by rolypolyman at 5:36 PM on April 27, 2005
jsavimbi: Hey, I remember 1999. Too bad Zeldman doesn't.
Zeldman? What Zeldman?
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:09 PM on April 27, 2005
Zeldman? What Zeldman?
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:09 PM on April 27, 2005
Yeah, what does this site, or 1999, have to do with Zeldman and whether or not he remembers it? I mean, I get that Huhcorp evokes the "anything goes in business, no matter how trivial or useless, because it's business, and you can't help but fall off a log and go public and get rich" days of 1999, but...
posted by dammitjim at 7:56 PM on April 27, 2005
posted by dammitjim at 7:56 PM on April 27, 2005
I like how they place the google ads such that they provide sincere versions of what this site is mocking.
posted by JZig at 8:11 PM on April 27, 2005
posted by JZig at 8:11 PM on April 27, 2005
2002 not 1999 was when it last appeared on Metafilter. Wayback machine has the same age.
I thought I'd seen it before that, at a job I quit in 2001, but it could be my memory playing tricks.
Still funny though.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 11:43 PM on April 27, 2005
I thought I'd seen it before that, at a job I quit in 2001, but it could be my memory playing tricks.
Still funny though.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 11:43 PM on April 27, 2005
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I think I understand their paradigm.
posted by seanyboy at 4:25 PM on April 27, 2005