Understatement & Modesty Will Rule the Day
So this morning I’m told we need individually written personal descriptors (role, experience, etc) statements for a client pitch. I read some examples that other people with other companies have done and they were so dramatic and overblown that I decided to have some fun. Here is the first draft I sent in:
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! I am the manifestation of all things technological within these walls and well beyond. My peerless powers of IT and Development make lesser man and women tremble in awe. Not only do I know exactly how many bytes can dance on the head of a pin, it is I that make them dance! And when the time of ultimate pownage is upon my projects, they look up in submission and know their lord and master.”
Needless to say, I had to turn in a second, more client-friendly version. 🙂
…”Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
If you’re referring to Shelley, then yes, guilty as charged.
If you’re referring to certain website that I no longer manager, well, that’s probably true too. 🙂
The intention of the reference is left as an exercise for the reader. (Ahem.)
I foresee lacy poet shirts, absinthe, bouts of consumption and ill-fated sailing voyages for all.