I’m a bad person.

At the entrance to the parking lot, where I walk past it every day on the way into work, there is one of those stupid safety banners. This one shows various body appendages going to various industrial smashy things, like gears etc. The tag line is “Never bypass a guard.”

My first inclination every day is to put another banner underneath it that says “Especially not Alice, she’s a bitch.” Alice is the security guard who sits by the door and glowers at you as you swipe your id card in the turnstyle. She’s probably not really a bitch, but she does have the most redundant job in the world.

I work for a company of idiots

First they tell us that intellectual property is our most unexploited resource, and we should make every effort to generate patents on every project we work on. And send out numerous memos telling that we’re not doing enough to get inventions into “Invention Tracker”. And now I find out that they’ve downsized the patent lawyers so there is only one or two people working on taking the stuff out of “Invention Tracker” and turning it into patents.

Smart move, guys. That will show those Japanese who’s the boss.