John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

  • Cris
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    502 months ago

    If you didn’t read the article, go read it, that shit is fucking hilarious

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      182 months ago

      Seconding that, holy shit I like him even more now.

      • @SirSamuel
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        152 months ago

        Look folks, i took the advice of the above posters, and I have to say, it’s pretty solid. 5 minutes well spent

  • @[email protected]
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    432 months ago

    This is great.

    What I’ve heard from my endless hours of comedy podcasts is that at corporate gigs like this, sometimes some execs start getting the idea that, because comedy is being performed, that they get to make some jokes too. Once they get up on stage, the worst possible mask off shit just pours forth. I kind of want to know if that happened.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      22 months ago

      When did Morty get a job? Did Rick finally die and let the kid live his life?

  • @[email protected]
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    312 months ago

    “You’re a VP of customer success?” he asked another attendee. “Congratulations on your position that did not exist five years ago!”

    Okay what the fuck is a “VP of customer success” though, that’s a title so made up money laundering has to be involved, no?

    • @[email protected]
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      202 months ago

      “Customer success” has been creeping into biztalk lately. According to Ed Zitron it refers to that subspecies of salescritter that works with SaaS victimscustomers to ensure they keep expanding their buying.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        Basically, yeah. At my last job working in vendor support the “customer success” team was entirely sales-focused. Support (as in “my product isn’t working as expected please help”) was under a different department that would sometimes get badgered by the customer success guys if it seemed like a case was making it harder to upsell, or if the customer’s problem was that they wanted to do something their current purchase didn’t cover.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      The industry called it “field engineering” previously, and “customer support” prior to that; renames happened every time the execs heard how this portion of their business is only a cost center and can easily be done by chat bots (to which the customer success people would say, good luck with that).

    • Steve
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      2 months ago

      It’s like how “marketing” became “UX research/design”

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        Marketing has not become UX research/design, you can’t possibly know what UX design is and say that.

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          12 months ago

          That’s the beauty of it. Business execs don’t have to know what a buzz word means to throw it around like some new toy.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Usually it’s the part of the org that is directly interacting with big, corporate customers. Those customers can and often do directly shape how a product works. It’s like a sales team, but focused on existing customers with big contracts (that might be expanded), rather than acquiring new customers.

      But admittedly, this has just been my experience. I’m sure it’s probably not universally true.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      in a startup model where product directly implements function requests from clients, it’d be the head of deciding which functions, sprints, priorities etc.

      And/or ensuring that clients are handled well enough so they’re not at risk of churn at the q3/q4 turnaround.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      I’m afraid for that, as I fear you would see a lot of laughing people. The emperor knows he is naked, but he still is emperor and he sees the people pretend he has clothes. The people of the court also know the emperor is naked, but he is the emperor and they will go along with his wishes. What are they going to do? Quit?

  • Jonathan Hendry
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    142 months ago

    @o7___o7

    There’s a hospital in France where a horse visits the patients. In the hospital. There was a thing in The Guardian about it a few years back.

  • @ABCDE
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    132 months ago

    Horse hospital what?

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      322 months ago

      Mulaney did a bit about how having trump as president is like having a horse loose in the hospital.

      It doesn’t really work on a second level for the headline though, so there’s no reason for it to be there.

  • @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    The fact that there are 45,000 ‘trailblazers’ here couldn’t devalue the title any more.

    Trailblazing, more like scorched earth policy.

  • Mister Neon
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    122 months ago

    I hope he gets invited to a ServiceNow convention.