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Livestock trajectory
Jun. 22nd, 2010 01:46 pmBefore we invented a location editor to do all of this automatically, one of the more monotonous tasks at work was to trawl through lists of changes that the clients wanted to make to their large hierarchy of publication locations. They started off with names that sounded normal enough, but my suspicions of these names grew fairly rapidly as they started to sneak things in like "Wet Gas Scrubber" and "Water Strippers". After complete disbelief at it, I even allowed in "Gooseberry Booster". But on a look through the biggest location list yet today, I found just between the Happy Valley Block Valve and the Jump Over 6 Junction...
That's it, I refuse to believe that these locations exist - I'm now convinced that there are two people in our client's IT department going "Bet they won't believe this one." "Bet they will!" in direct competition with each other to finally produce a silly enough name for us to write back questioning it.
And if I hadn't been given this explanation, I would have done so - but I still like my own mental image better, that of some sort of porcine secret weapon from Serious Sam.
Happy Valley Pig Launcher
That's it, I refuse to believe that these locations exist - I'm now convinced that there are two people in our client's IT department going "Bet they won't believe this one." "Bet they will!" in direct competition with each other to finally produce a silly enough name for us to write back questioning it.
And if I hadn't been given this explanation, I would have done so - but I still like my own mental image better, that of some sort of porcine secret weapon from Serious Sam.
