Now I can't stop picturing the scene in your average Republican Party office, and in particular trying to answer the question, "Who serves their IT needs?"
I keep imagining their offices are full of the following people:
1) Cranky white retirees of both sexes, including all of the lifer RNC employees - none of whom will touch a computer because they think the damn thing'll explode if they go near it;
2) Fired-up evangelical Christians, who know nothing about computers because they were homeschooled by parents who thought the Internet was a tool of Satan;
3) Useless trust-fund-baby Young Republican interns (who are getting paid more than any of the lifer employees, by the way) - some of whom probably could program a computer, but who all consider the work "beneath them," and who only hang out at the party office momentarily, in between trips outside to smoke pot. (This is based on my experiences with Young Republicans at Northwestern - a more useless band of nasty, lazy dilettantes you'd never want to meet.)
So I would imagine the whole burden falls on Jerry, the lifer guy who's only in his 50s and who knows a bit about computers (and who tries to do the whole programming job with his copy of HTML for Dummies spread open on his lap). Then, when Jerry fails, they finally follow his suggestion and hire a couple of Geek Squad-type temps, who get paid next to nothing and whom they abuse constantly (because the temps have piercings and facial hair, and so are probably socialists).
So between Jerry's enthusiastic incompetence and the deliberate sabotage from the mistreated temps, I think I know how the Republicans' websites always seem to end up the way they do.
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Date: 2009-10-14 05:44 pm (UTC)I keep imagining their offices are full of the following people:
1) Cranky white retirees of both sexes, including all of the lifer RNC employees - none of whom will touch a computer because they think the damn thing'll explode if they go near it;
2) Fired-up evangelical Christians, who know nothing about computers because they were homeschooled by parents who thought the Internet was a tool of Satan;
3) Useless trust-fund-baby Young Republican interns (who are getting paid more than any of the lifer employees, by the way) - some of whom probably could program a computer, but who all consider the work "beneath them," and who only hang out at the party office momentarily, in between trips outside to smoke pot. (This is based on my experiences with Young Republicans at Northwestern - a more useless band of nasty, lazy dilettantes you'd never want to meet.)
So I would imagine the whole burden falls on Jerry, the lifer guy who's only in his 50s and who knows a bit about computers (and who tries to do the whole programming job with his copy of HTML for Dummies spread open on his lap). Then, when Jerry fails, they finally follow his suggestion and hire a couple of Geek Squad-type temps, who get paid next to nothing and whom they abuse constantly (because the temps have piercings and facial hair, and so are probably socialists).
So between Jerry's enthusiastic incompetence and the deliberate sabotage from the mistreated temps, I think I know how the Republicans' websites always seem to end up the way they do.