Marketing don't have a clue as to what they're doing. Which is stupid because although they have one job - ONE JOB - to sell the product, they have no idea what the market's like out there. Market survey. Right. Overpricing one of our recent projects in a below market area was definitely a bad call they should have been able to see coming from miles away. As a result sales haven't been a-booming, purchasers are turned off by the high price tag and upper management is calling for heads to roll.

Maybe we can't blame them. They're not technical people. They're not highly passionate, either. Neither does it instill confidence the Senior Manager, two years away from retirement, clocks out at three everyday. These kind of work ethics make them dispensable. Not us. If an Architect were to resign, you'd notice right away. Things would quickly fall apart, meetings would cancel themselves, even the maintenance staff would go into mourning. If one of the Marketing staff resigned, it would be quickly overshadowed by something more important, say, the tea lady upgrading the awful local coffee blend she normally uses to that cool imported stuff. We were able to budget for this by downgrading her salary, which is why it  now costs us more to buy coffee than pay her monthly - everyone takes one for the team.

That how useless Marketing is. I'd sell the projects myself if I wasn't so busy doing the important stuff that keeps the firm running. They can't even get their advertising right. It's surprising most them actually know how to read. With the quality of the adverts coming out, it doesn't seem like it.

Take one of the Managers, for example. I don't think I've ever seen him lift a finger since he got here. All he does is sit quietly in his corner and fiddle with his keyboard. Someone once saw him playing Barn Buddy. I'd tell you his name but I've forgotten it. 

The partners have too. I heard he wasn't included in the mid-year bonus simply because they forgot he worked here.

There's a vacant position in that department, if anyone's interested.