March 28, 2005

• Oooops ... I think that post might have proved my point!
• Without a shadow of a doubt, I would be on it. The enormous mutant star goat is heading this way...
• In my old job, I would almost certainly have ended up on the 'B' ark, but now, I think I just may have squeaked into staying on Golgafrincham. I'll try to stay away from public telephones.
• I am so totally on the B ark it isn't funny. Marketers? Personal assistants? Nope, no way I get to stay on Golgafrincham.
• Yes, and no. I'm an office manager, which puts me on the B ship. But! I'm an office manager for a micro-company, where I have to be able to Do It All, so I might be worth keeping around.
• Accounting? Billing? Payables? Receivables? Life Insurance? Sales Commissions? Systems Conversions? Junk Bonds? Most of my so-called working life was so removed from anything genuinely positive... I got my personal wakeup call when the Financial Services company I worked for went belly-up and I, along with all the other lower-level grunts, had to man the phones and tell people receiving annuities they might not get their money. So I went to work for a company that did "environmental engineering", which over the 10 years I was there evolved from supervising cleanups of toxic waste to filling out Environmental Impact Reports for future toxic waste producers. Ending up on Disability probably saved my soul. But considerng that most of my "professional" writing these days is about Television, I don't think I'm off the B-Ark yet.
• I think the primary qualification for the B ark is the obliviousness that the giant goat didn't really exist - in other words, all the not very useful skeptics. So therefore I think it is very unlikely that most Monkeys would be on the B-ark, knowing that Mofi is a den of the skeptical. I think the most likely people to go on the B-ark are those who believe that Mr. Bush is God and Iraq is the new Eden. Please line up here to get your "reward"!! In terms of jobs I don't think students would be put on the B-ark... excepting business students perhaps. In fact, the story of the Golgafrinchans is probably my favourite part of The Hitch Hiker's Guide ... I hope it's in the film.
• *disinfects telephone*
• Are grad students useless? Or just me?
• I was as useless as possible.
• I wasn't useless, just depressed, which had the same effect.
• If you've got an MBA...You're on the B-ark. In the luxury suites, of course...
• Where do the unemployed disabled folk go? Maybe I could get a job as one of the B Ark crew (since no one else wants to hire me)...
• Without document controllers, the documents would run out of control and supplant the native humans.
• Why isn't there a meglomaniac type who figured the only chance of establishing their own personal fiefdom was to stow away on the B Ark?