Conversations: Real and Imagined
Me: Pluto’s no longer a planet. Poor old Pluto.
BC: …how will this affect Micky Mouse?
Me: We’ll just tell him that Pluto went to live with some relatives in the country, where he gets to chase bunnies all day.
They changed my job title from “technical writer” to “analyst”. Not “technical writing analyst” or “writing analyst” or anything descriptive. It’s just “analyst”. This led to the following fake conversations.
Person: so what do you do?
Me: I’m an analyst.
Person: Ooh, like stock market analyst?
Me: Nnno… I write technical manuals….
Person: Wouldn’t that make you a technical writer?
Me: One would think.
One of the other technical wri.. I mean analysts… had this fake conversation when I said I wanted my job title to be changed to “pirate” instead.
Other writer: Oh, COOL! Then you would get to have conversations like
Person: so what do you do?
Me: I’m a pirate.
Person: Ooh, like Jack Sparrow?
Me: Yes, pretty much exactly like that.
Tags: Actual Conversations, Life
