I work for idiots!

The company I work for is being split into two parts. They've been working on this for a while. Today they announced that the part of the company that I work in will be getting a new name (the other part is keeping the old name).

Our new name is

"'leidos' — a coined word, clipped from
'ka-leidos-cope,' signifying how the company brings together solutions
from different angles, yielding innovative and effective solutions."

Except that neither in breaking down words into syllables in English, nor in the Greek etymology of "kaleidoscope" does this come even remotely close to being right.

I work for idiots. In other news, the Earth is still smaller than the Sun.

credit where it's due

The road menders did a very good job fixing the mess that WASA had made of our street. They detoured people out onto the mostly unpaved shoulder on the far side of the street while they were working, but everyone could get in and out and no one seems to have accidentally driven into the creek (which is on that side of the street).

Driving out past the work, I could see that appalling mess that the water board people had made. Basically, they tore off the road surface, chopped a big hole through the roadbed, dug a big hole through the ground under it to get to the main, then just filled in the hole with dirt and rubble to the level of the road surface and put some macadam down on top of that. No effort to repair the roadbed, no effort to grade the surface before tarmacking it. I think my nephews know how to repair a road better than that, and they're five!

So, thank you WASA for fixing the water main break, but no thanks for doing such a crap job of clearing up.

And thank you, road menders for clearing up after *them*!

Now waiting to see how the gas tap has been painted over this time...