Hey! Look! It’s a new Cranky Product Manager mug!
It declares to the world “I AM A CRANKY PRODUCT MANAGER.”
You should get yourself one. It’s WICKED AWESOME.
PM leaders, just think of it. Finally, the perfect present for your team of put-upon product managers–those hard-working, in-the-trenches professionals that get no love, no appreciation, no free trips to the Bahamas, and no credit. And, given this economy, they probably get no bonuses or no pay raises this year either.
You gotta do something for them, right? Something to stave off their burnout for at least another year…
Here’s an Elegant Solution(TM): GIVE THEM MUGS!
Just imagine how spiffy you will all look at team meetings, each clutching your very own cranky mug.
The first 50 mugs sold get special pricing of $12.99 for the small, and $14.99 for the large. After that, the prices will go up by $1.50 each.
You can also get a WICKED AWESOME travel mug too. That’s what the real-life CPM is getting.
So BUY NOW. Who says you can’t buy for next Christmas now?
Oh, and if you also want to buy some 7 Types of Engineer mugs, you’ll find them here.
Thanks, and ENJOY.
7:00 am. The Cranky Product Manager awakes. Grabs the Blackberry Curve off the bedside table. Starts deleting spam. Opens the following email from a reader and starts laughing hysterically.
Darling Husband is startled awake and is like “what the???”
Dear Cranky Product Manager,
I have attached a picture of the real Veteran Engineer that works with me. I saw your post, the description of Mike, and bought the mug for him. He, in turn, sent me the proof that corroborates what you have posted beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Please feel free to post on the site.
All the best,
Maggie
Sr. Product Manager
And here the photo, along with Mike’s disclaimers:
- No (party) animals were endangered during the filming of this picture.
- No additional clothing was needed to be purchased by the photo subject in order to take this picture.
You will notice that Mike The Veteran Software Engineer is holding a Veteran Software Engineer mug. The Cranky Product Manager is always a sucker for a good recursion gag. It reminds her of her lamda calculus-filled freshman year at a random institute of technology.
Note that you readers should all take this as a hint to BUY MUGS and give them to engineers.
Thanks Mike and Maggie, for giving the Cranky Product Manager a good chuckle!
