This is a color I would never have used in a million years.
Just got off the phone with the carpet guys. We have an appointment on the 14th to have the carpeting installed. Halleleujah, amen. Let’s get this done and over with, already.
What else is going on? I found this article on the Baltimore Business Journal today- these guys were the agency of record for one of my previous employers. I felt bad for them- we charged them with designing a message for us and the upper management that ran our company’s marketing strategy could never come up with a graspable description of what it was we did. We would go into meetings with them and they would present their ideas, and our VP’s and his toadies would wave their arms around and yell that they hadn’t ‘gotten our core message’. And then our VP would get out his little pens and scribble all over the whiteboard, and come up with some form of garbled diagram (that was changing just about every other day) and then fold his arms and smile that smug little “I make more money than you do, and my resume proves that I don’t crap anything but little piles of gold” smile, and then say condecendingly, “OK? Go to it. That’s what we’re paying you for.”
And the poor Cornerstone guys would just look at him, and the circles of sweat under their arms would grow, and you could tell they had absolutely no idea of how to translate this ‘message’ into something visual or explainable (believe me, it was impossible- I tried for a year and a half). I daresay they are psyched they don’t have that account anymore.
On a related note- ha fucking ha. This is funny too– I’m wondering if it’s worth it. And finally, I found this little excerpt from a particular guy who we used to work with-and I’m not making this up-about his new company:
“Prior to such an agreement on interenterprise business processes for forecasting and replenishment, all we had was agreement on data standards. With the increased awareness of the need for realtime process synchronization across enterprise boundaries, we are going to see more such standardization on inter-enterprise processes-whether it is for transportation, logistics, procurement, or financials for multiple enterprises in a multi-tier value chain.”