Alert Pitch staffer Justin Kendall alerted me to a YouTube leaking of Garmin Int'l's Super Bowl ad, which features a Godzilla-like action-hero faceoff with a campy hard rock soundtrack provided by a band led by Steve Grimmett of '80s hair bands Grim Reaper, Lionsheart and Onslaught.
THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SELF-INDULGENT REMINISCING
As I'm sure you know, Garmin is, like, the leading manufacturer of GPS devices and is headquarted in way south Johnson County -- I-35 South and the Paola exit, if I remember correctly. See, when I first moved up here and had no job, I managed to get an interview for a technical writing position out at Garmin. The whole interview process was mortifying. I was so not qualified. Showing up in a badly mismatched sportcoat-slacks outfit befitting a poor, clueless liberal arts major, I was first screened by an HR woman who asked me things like, "what are your three greatest strengths and weaknesses?" and "when was an example of a time you resolved a conflict in a professional environment?" Well, this one time, this bitch I had, Trinity, wouldn't pay me my fitty percent, so I grabs me this pool cue, and...
Once that was over, I was ushered through a Cubicle Forest such as I have never seen, to the office of the head of technical writing. I had brought a portfolio consisting of some lame coursework I'd done in a basic technical writing class I'd taken in college, all neatly presented in the laminated sleeves of a crisp 3-ring binder. I might as well have brought in a pan of sugar cookies with cute frosting decorations and laid them on his desk as evidence of my skills. We danced around the quandry of my being up there despite having no relevant experience before he eventually put me in a conference room with a little old man who told me about how, in addition to being a Garmin employee, he published his own fly fishing newsletter and sang in an Episcopal choir. Or something like that. It was so surreal I felt actually moved by the little man's life story. As I drove the 30 minutes back to Midtown, I thought, well, at least I won't be making this long commute.
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