• Anecdotes 22.02.2009 1 Comment

    I got my “Annual Resident Listing” form from the City of Boston today.  It already lists my correct name, date of birth, gender, and voter registration status.  Then it has, in a column headed “Occupation”

    SFTWRE DVLPR

    I think they were going for Software Developer.  Ironically, if they’d hired me, they wouldn’t have had this little problem with over-eager abbreviating.