Sprocketology - The Cyber Sprocket Blog

I’ve been posting ads for our administrative/office assistant position for a few days now, and have gotten a lot of really good responses. However, someone is continually flagging my posts for deletion - SEVEN TIMES. That’s all great and everything, but Craig’s List is such a stupid system, it gives you no explanation for the removal whatsoever. So, when your post gets taken down, it’s pretty much up to you to figure out what was wrong with it. I have written a total of SEVEN versions of this ad, slowly weeding out every controversial statement in it. Here’s one of the earlier versions - maybe our readership (three people or more!) can offer some insight as to why I’m being targeted…

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Andrew Grubbs has joined the Cyber Sprocket crew. He is a level 45 Bard and his stats are formidable. Andrew will be serving as our business development mastermind, so if you’re doing work with us currently and need some love give him a call. If you’re considering us for your project, Andrew can also tell you how great we are with much eloquence.

Welcome to the gang, Andrew!

Last week Maggie Winkowski, the glue of the Cyber Sprocket team, said her final adieus and moved on to bigger, better things. Maggie will be using her education to the fullest extent onboard a fishing boat near the coast of Alaska during this next adventure in her life. There she’ll fulfill her dream of measuring and identifying fish while experiencing the symptoms of frostbite.

The goodbye party consisted of small arms fire and an ice cream cake from Marble Slab Cold Stone. The perpetrator of the gunshots is being pursued by the Hanahan police. Meanwhile, we all learned a hard lesson about unthawing ice cream cakes before eating them.

Very looong picture after the break…

We tend to do some… strange things around the office on friday afternoons. For instance, today we hit around a plush Yoda doll with an old keyboard, baseball style. We hope you enjoy the photos.

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Liv dropped by the office today with a guest - her sister’s newly minted French bulldog, Stitch. He’s a bundle of sausage-like, snortin’ energy. Lance, whose genus is in the same family tree, managed to communicate with the pig-bunny beast via a series of grunts and barks.