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[[File:Argos catalog.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[service catalog]] yesterday. Argos recently got rid of them, interestingly.]]
[[File:Argos catalog.jpg|450px|frameless|center|A [[service catalog]] yesterday. Argos recently got rid of them, interestingly.]]
}}It is strange what the service catalog — a work of utter science fiction dreamed up by a someone who has taken one too many Six-Sigma workshops — omits. It won’t mention “answering stupid questions,” “trying to forlornly to recover documents because [[Microsoft Office]] unexpectedly crashed”, “retyping them once you give up looking for them”, “attending ‘the future of legal’ transformational journey workshops”, “covering one’s own arse”; “trying to ''look'' like one is covering someone else’s arse, to make them go away, while not actually doing so”, “sitting on pointless [[committee|committees]] designed to cover ''everyone’s'' arse” or “attending pointless [[conference calls]] to save the time of one lazy arse who would rather waste twenty hours of other people’s time rather than one of his”. Yet these activities, and ones like them that also won’t be in the service catalog, occupy the lion’s share of a modern professional’s working life.
}}It is strange what the service catalog — a work of utter science fiction dreamed up by a someone who has taken one too many Six-Sigma workshops — omits. It won’t mention “answering stupid questions,” “trying to forlornly to recover documents because [[Microsoft Office]] unexpectedly crashed”, “retyping them once you give up looking for them”, “attending ‘the future of legal’ transformational journey workshops”, “covering one’s own arse”; “trying to ''look'' like one is covering someone else’s arse, to make them go away, while not actually doing so”, “sitting on pointless [[committee|committees]] designed to cover ''everyone’s'' arse” or “attending pointless [[conference calls]] to save the time of one lazy arse who would rather waste twenty hours of other people’s time rather than one of his”. Yet these activities, and ones like them that also won’t be in the service catalog, occupy the lion’s share of a modern professional’s working life.