My Job...

I work for a company here in Minnesota as an account manager. We work with educational publishers to create media and other packaging, and I handle a bunch of divisions that produce Science, technology, and nursing materials. Among other things, my main task is order entry, which sucks worse than anyone could ever know. So I have to find ways to brighten up my day. Little victories. One of my favorite past times is abbreviating. See, we have a limited amount of space in our system to put things like Author name or Title of book into the database, so oftentimes I have to find the best way to get a 35 character title down to 12 spaces. Not easy to do, but it's the most brain activity I get all day. I also have another habit of making my abbreviations as dirty as I possibly can. For instance, today I had the Windows Analysis Toolbox. Pretty simple right, just do your job Dayve and shut the fuck up. Well, I decide it needed to read "ANAL TOOLBOX". I had another one the other day titled Ballistics Assembly Planning for Small Planes. I have no idea what that is, but I thought It'd be a good idea to change it to "BALL ASS SMALL".

I like to think that someone somewhere down the manufacturing line looks at their paperwork and chuckles to themselves.

Perhaps they even get excited to get product from us because the don't know what kind of hilarity I'll pull off next.

I need to get a real job...