Last week the agency that placed me at where I worked called me — they wanted to know how the assignment was going, as I’d been there for three months and the company had told them it would be a three to four week work assignment. “What do you do there?”<\/p>\n
I tried to explain. “I generate a spreadsheet from one database. Then I compare that spreadsheet against a second database. If the spreadsheet lists someone that’s not in the second database I go to a third database, find the person, then enter the information from the third database into a new record in the second.”<\/p>\n
“Is this what you’ve been doing for three months?”<\/p>\n
“No,” I said. “The project I started with — that finished at about week five. I’ve spent my time proof-reading training documents and playing data jockey. I seem to have become the resident Excel guru.”<\/p>\n
I must’ve said this with a hint of… something, as they promised me they’d look into what’s going on. As long as I get paid, though, no worries. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
This week I’m working on some Texas databases — lists of doctors and other medical providers in Texas. And this afternoon, I did a double-take.<\/p>\n
There’s a doctor named “Paul Masson.”<\/p>\n
The first thing that went through my head — the Orson Welles commercials. “Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time.” The second thing — the drunken outtakes from the filming of the Orson Welles commercials, particularly the weird primal scream he makes.<\/p>\n
I felt sorry for the doctor named “Foox,” which I read as a rude word with a Liverpudlian twist. Or the doctor named “Dyke” — that poor guy.<\/p>\n
Ah, the things that easily amuse me — doctors’ names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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