Everything Old is New Again

Eviiljob is a fairly tech-heavy company.  I cannot actually name Eviljob; once I quit, we might be able to talk on that point, though.  ;-)  For now, just trust me that Eviljob, like Elvis, is everywhere in most, or at least many, technically-based lives.  We (allegedly) hire the best in their field, blah, blah, blah...  Which is why I always am amazed at how completely fucking young and lost many of our techboys are.  Today, I had this happen as I am in Tech Dep't Y to help draw up some new training manuals for them:

Ancodia: Chris, come over here and show me again how demo xx works.

Chris (playing a video game on his iPhone): I'm on break. No!  Oh!  Oh!  

ChrisBoss (about 50 yrs old): I can show you ::pulls up demo xx::

Chris: Oh! Oh! Oh! BWAAAAGGGGHHHH!

(this continues for several minutes)

Ancodia: Are you still on break?

Chris: Oh, man...

Ancodia: Woman.

Chris: Ohhh, man!

Ancodia & ChrisBoss: ...and WOMAN.

Chris: That was the greatest *ever*! I burned him so bad! I'm like, 'take that, whoa!'

ChrisBoss: What're you playing?

Chris: Oh, man...Light Bikes!

Ancodia: ...light bikes?

Chris:  Yeah!  It's on the iPhone, and you're in this motorcycle that makes a wall of light behind you that you can't cross, and you play against another bike, and you try to make the other bike crash into a wall of light, or the wall of the game, and...

Ancodia:  Sounds awesome -- they should make a movie about it.  ::elbowing ChrisBoss:: Maybe Disney, or something.  

ChrisBoss (jokingly): Hey, yeah! That'd be cool!

Chris: I dunno...

Ancodia: Oh, god...Tron.  You're playing Tron.

Chris: No -- Light Bikes!

Ancodia:  No, TRON -- light *cycles*, to be exact.  It's a trillion years old.

Chris:  This is new...it's on the iPhone.  See?  Light *Bikes*!

ChrisBoss: What do they say about being doomed to repeat history?

Ancodia:  This is a knock-off...what're you going to play next, Circle-Guy?  Where the little circle runs around the maze and wocka-wocka eats all the little dots?

Chris: No...I don't have that one...

Ancodia: Kill me now.

ChrisBoss: Photo Finish! (earns a winky point from me)

Ancodia:  I hear the iPhone's PointyThing 3000 is fun.

ChrisBoss: You are way too young to be making these jokes...I think.   

Ancodia: Meh...I thought *he* (at Chris) was too smart to not be *getting* these jokes, and look what that got me. 

ChrisBoss: Truth; maybe *I* should write some iPhone apps, reinvent Asteroids, or something.  Maybe iPhoneroids?

Ancodia:  Hey (in an elderly voice, to Chris)! Can your li'l gadgee there pick up The Q-Link? I hafta meet some'a me droogs in People Connection.

Chris looks confused.  ChrisBoss is in hysterics.  

Sigh.  I am the premier comedienne for the over-fifty crowd, and the unappreciated equivalent of Confuse-A-Cat for the under thirty crowd.  Yep, yep.  Credits!!!

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