“SwagSwap” — A New Era In Software Engineering Onboarding
I think I’ve found an idea that’d finally allow me to afford to pay the electricity bill.
People of a certain age may remember the BBC TV series (Multi-Coloured) SwapShop, served up on a Saturday morning as a part of their children’s TV offerings from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.
The central premise was that if you had toys you no longer liked or wanted, or perhaps never really wanted in the first place, that you could swap them for something else.
Hopefully, therefore, there would exist someone else who really didn’t like or want what you actually wanted and vice versa. SwapShop existed to facilitate this desired transfer through the medium of television, or rather telephone to be precise, as you called them up to propose or accept the aforementioned swaps¹.
I suppose it’s all a bit like the proverbial saying “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”, though I doubt that would have been a catchy, and inoffensive, enough name for a children’s TV program. Mind you, it was the 1970s.
Recently I wrote about the sheer weight of landfill, sorry, ‘company swag’ that’s being distributed throughout the grand game of software engineering.
If you want to take a peek, brace yourself, and skim down your LinkedIn timeline for…
