when I say jump, you reply “how high”
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008We were looking at the change control requests when our German director came in. He saw the application we’re using and made a joke about its name. He said it should be called our CIO’s first name instead.
Of course, all of us smiled but I’m pretty sure the joke is lost to everyone, myself including. Was it a private joke? Who knows.
When he left, the Belgian CIO said “you guys should laugh when he cracks joke”. We laughed then.
Perhaps we laughed for different reasons because I laughed at the absurdity of what he said. Perhaps some people laughed to kiss ass. Perhaps some laughed and wished they were dead.
In any case, I’m not taking it against our CIO. I like the guy. And after a year of working here, that really means a lot coming from me. Normally, if my direct boss(es) are assholes I’d be bolting by now.
Still I’m not sure whether he was serious. The good thing is I don’t interact with the Director aside from hi-hello, so I don’t think I need to find out whether I ought to practise some canned haha hoho.
