The process of starting at a company I've worked at for a decade

[I almost used the word “on-boarding” in the title, but then I realized that's marketspeak and I don't want to use marketspeak as I find the synergism incondusive to the synchronistic harmonizing of perpendicular incentives. Or something like that. I digress … ]

Now that the Corporate Overlords are in full Borg mode (“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”) I just have to laugh at the process. Last Friday, I was sent instructions about signing up to the Corporate Overlords' Gitlab [1] instance in email. The email consisted of “Here's the steps” followed by an image of the list of items to do, where the first item consisted of a few steps, the last of which was:

… and send an email to some-address-

followed by the text “thk.” So I wrote back saying the instructions appeared to be cut off partway through. Today I received a reply. The reply consisted of a Microsoft Word document, which included an image of the list of items to do, where the first item consisted of a few steps, the last of which was:

… and send an email to some-address-

followed by the text “thk.”

That is comedy gold right there.

[1] http://about.gitlab.com/

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