Our office manager started a blog to keep our company posted on details of an upcoming office move. Her announcement included the cartoon below, which made me laugh (and reminded me of the cartoon with which I started this blog).
In September 2012 I was in Las Vegas to present on behalf of Castlight Health at the Institute for HealthCare Consumerism‘s Forum West.
Another conference was going on at the same hotel: BedBug Central was holding their BedBug University North American Summit.
Their two-day conference included a huge amount of educational and social content. I grabbed photos of the placards advertising the seven seminars that I think would be most interesting to the layman.
Just goes to show, there’s a trade show for everything.
I spotted this sign on a supply closet in the men’s restroom at my accountant’s building in South San Francisco. A sensible request, poetically presented.
If you don’t have the
key
Please don’t open
the door
With other tools
Thanks
Manager
Last week my company issued a press release quoting me. Itself not necessarily worth reporting on this blog, but some web sites have published it substituting various words. I’m guessing they do this as link bait for SEO, so they show up differently from the sites that simply republish releases verbatim.
But there’s some humor in the “after” compared to the “before”. Like it’s almost a human speaking, but not quite.
Excerpt from the release as issued (full release on BusinessWire here):
“A health care transparency tool is only effective if employees use and gain value from it,” said Ethan Prater, vice president of products, Castlight Health. “Castlight goes beyond great technology and data to help customers like Regis create well-designed programs that engage users and drive cost-conscious health care decisions that benefit employees and employers alike.”
With the same excerpt “substituted” (on a random site here):
“A illness care clarity apparatus is usually efficient if employees use and earn worth from it,” mentioned Ethan Prater, clamp boss of products, Castlight Health. “Castlight goes over great technology and data to help customers similar to Regis emanate well-designed programs that rivet users and expostulate cost-conscious illness care decisions that benefit employees and employers alike.”
There’s an album title in here somewhere. Clamp boss, indeed.
As I get older, this is actually pretty much how I feel…
From The New Yorker (their Cartoon Bank is down, so I can’t link to the bigger/purchase page, but you can find it there if you’re interested).
UPDATE: my friend Tom replies with the cartoon below…
My friend Jason took this photo in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. As he says, it evokes questions on many levels….
Who is supposed to respond to this sign?
And just how many secrets do meat processors have?
