I'm employed by a company by the name of Applied Graphics Technology. AGT-Seattle, in the AGT West division, to be specific, even though our building's in the city of Redmond. Rather silly, once you think about it. I mean, suburb though it may be, Redmond is hardly an unknown entity. Of course, perhaps they don't want people to think that we're a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. Of course, the big M is a major client, one to which my particular department is devoted and we have to be really nice to them lest they take their business elsewhere. (Which would be a mistake on their part, since us kids at AGT-Seattle are so darn competent and fun to be with.) But they don't own us. We're owned instead by Kohlberg & Co., who bought up the whole corporation back in June. So far they have treated us nice.
But I digress. We at AGT-Seattle specialize in color separations. That's a printing term. It means we make dots. We are premier dotmakers, preparing high quality dots for top of the line catalogs, packaging and advertising. Mostly catalogs. But like I said, I'm in the Microsoft department, so I get to do boxes instead. (They've always had me doing something instead of catalogs, even back when we were Color Control, a wholly owned subsidiary of CGF industries. I wonder if that's the secret to our success in the catalog industry?)
Anyway, you may be asking, how did I, a Mac using, anti-establishment, hippie wannabe end up working for a division of a global corporate conglomerate, specializing in advertising for one of the biggest companies this country has seen? Well,:
A) I'm an incredible hypocrite, bought and paid for with a nice salary and cushy benefits.
B) A wife, kids and a mortgage are expensive.
C) The Lord works in mysterious ways.
D) It just kind of worked out that way.
Actually, they all are true, except that I really can't blame God for my shortcomings. He has certainly blessed me with this job, but any moral irregularities are my own doing.
updated 8/2/2003