Smartassery

The lepers within these gorgeous California mountaintops would be…this rotten venture capital firm.

You see, the creature that calls himself the boss has a certain nauseating reputation within the industry. Case in point: during my attempts to get out of this cage, I have actually had recruiters say: “So, I see you’ve been with Twathead Ventures for three years. How do you manage?! Is Ignoramus as bad as the rumors suggest? Girrrl, details…” Yeah, that bad.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when the scarlet marking was recently reinforced.

We work with many vendors. Among them there’s the requisite IT services company. Over the years they’ve sent our way many many many (emphasis on many) techs. Ignoramus in his customary pickiness and ‘tantrumic’ behavior has refused to deal with some of them on the basis of some stupid reason that I’m sure has involved the IT tech doing very bad things, like having an unaligned shirt button or a queer eyebrow, preferring water to cola, or typing looking at the keyboard.

Finally, he settled on one guy, who I’ll refer to as The Saint, and we were quite happy except for the occasional odd coment from Ignoramus (whose degree in Computer Science from Harvard quite literally proves that a monkey with a fattish bank account and guilty parents can achieve the same feat) regarding shit he royally fucked up and no one could fix (like that time when he compressed his operating system and the computer went to shits). Sigh and carry on.

Anyway, The Saint recently quit his company and decided to go Solo (like Hans). On his last day, his company actually said this to him: “Oh, you know Twathead Ventures? If you want, you can take them. We don’t care about our contract or the $5K a month we get from them. We’d just rather not have them as a client anymore. You know, for the wellbeing of all our employees.”

Can you imagine this? We’re like vomit: pervasive, revolting, and obviously untouchable.

Maybe we should change our name to Pariah Ventures. 

PS: When I say We, I really mean They.

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