nonsense and badges

was thinking this morning, in the way one tends to think when one has been awake for less time than necessary to allow actual thought to take place, that life should be a little more like scouts.
think about it... everyone would sell delicious cookies... people would do good deeds on occasion... and, most importantly, we'd all get really cool badges to sew onto our clothes for doing things that we probably would have done anyway. we could even collect badges for things we do wrong, for ways in which we arn't particularly functional, and thereby redeem ourselves, if only marginally, with some sense of achievement.
badges i want:
the "set my alarm for pm and missed my appointment" badge.
the "parallel parking in the university parking district" badge.
the "pep-and-ched was my lunch today" badge.
the "cookies were my lunch yesterday" badge.

i'm sure i could go on forever... but then, i'd miss more appointments. and the constant cycle of getting badges and talking about them would wear me to exhaustion.

so instead, i present a few portions of text from the minacs.com website, under "career opportunities".

At Minacs, work is about using your mind and energy to make things happen.

our lean, nimble structure is a competitive advantage for Minacs and self-starters like you.

our work teams are formed around specific clients, projects, and or skill sets.

i think the first one is my favorite... other than sleep, or maybe watching tv, i can't think of, well, anything that isn't about using your mind and energy to make things happen. it's like saying "at minacs, work is about doing stuff". brilliant. i love empty jargon and rhetoric. explains a lot about why i have a blog i can't give up despite the almost non-existant fan base, eh? but at least it's a lean and nimble structure. working on getting it to do cartwheels, but no success yet.

sorry, what? ive just been awarded the "pointless contribution to a small cross-section of humanity" badge? sweet. and i thought i wouldn't accomplish anything today.