Thursday, May 18, 2006
Bad to the Bone
The Mestee Readers have spoken...and they're not happy:
Brian,
Your last entry was a bit dissapointing. We, your faithful readers, visit your site to hear from and about you: your profound observations, your karmic happenings, your symmetrical medical history, etc...
Yeti
Not to get too "meta" here, but I'll agree, the Mestee is at its worst when it serves as nothing more than a low-grade news-reporting site. Some, like Yeti, might argue that it is at its best when I tell embarassing tales of personal social misfortune. As a wise man once said: True that, man. True that.
Yesterday, I told my team leader that sometimes I thought we were the Bad News Bears of the client service teams. She looked at me blankly and I knew this wouldn't end well. "What's that?" she asked.
"It's a movie," another team member chimed in. "It's like this baseball team that is really terrible and all of the team members are sort of incompetent and nobody wants to be associated with them."
She turned back to me wondering what I was insinuating.
"Oh, and there coach is a drunken idiot," he added.
"Well, you're not really included in the analogy," I explained, trying to backtrack.
I was really going for the comparison of a rag-tag group of people getting things done, but in an unconventional and sometimes seemingly irresponsible way. I wish I could have thought of that at the time. Instead, I just sat there and pretended that nothing happened.
Was I wrong in assuming that the Bad News Bears is a widely known pop culture reference? I mean, they even had a remake a couple years ago...it can't be that obscure. For now, we'll chalk it up as another unintentional insult.
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Brian,
Your last entry was a bit dissapointing. We, your faithful readers, visit your site to hear from and about you: your profound observations, your karmic happenings, your symmetrical medical history, etc...
Yeti
Not to get too "meta" here, but I'll agree, the Mestee is at its worst when it serves as nothing more than a low-grade news-reporting site. Some, like Yeti, might argue that it is at its best when I tell embarassing tales of personal social misfortune. As a wise man once said: True that, man. True that.
Yesterday, I told my team leader that sometimes I thought we were the Bad News Bears of the client service teams. She looked at me blankly and I knew this wouldn't end well. "What's that?" she asked.
"It's a movie," another team member chimed in. "It's like this baseball team that is really terrible and all of the team members are sort of incompetent and nobody wants to be associated with them."
She turned back to me wondering what I was insinuating.
"Oh, and there coach is a drunken idiot," he added.
"Well, you're not really included in the analogy," I explained, trying to backtrack.
I was really going for the comparison of a rag-tag group of people getting things done, but in an unconventional and sometimes seemingly irresponsible way. I wish I could have thought of that at the time. Instead, I just sat there and pretended that nothing happened.
Was I wrong in assuming that the Bad News Bears is a widely known pop culture reference? I mean, they even had a remake a couple years ago...it can't be that obscure. For now, we'll chalk it up as another unintentional insult.
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