Senior UX/UI Web Designer: Professional Joke CJ In One Ear and Out the Other Nashua, New Hampshire October 29, 2020
Informant Data:
CJ was born on December 28, 1976 in Bharuch, India. After completing her undergraduate education at Narmada College in India, she got married and gave birth to a baby daughter. After her daughter turned one year old, she and her husband moved to the States in 2000. After her son was born in 2004, she began taking classes in web design at Nashua Community College and UMASS Lowell, two local colleges. After switching between several different jobs, all in computer science, she has now been working at CAMP Systems, an aircraft management company, as a UX/UI Web Designer for 8 years now.
Contextual Data:
Cultural Context: CAMP Systems is an aircraft management company that works to provide solutions for customers and clients in improving aircraft quality, compliance with regulations, and aircraft maintenance. It is headquartered in Nashua, NH, which is where CJ lives. CJ has specifically been involved in the web design aspect of the job, improving the user experience and the user interface of those who visit the website for personal and professional use.
Social Context: This joke is used by a person when he/she says something, and the person who was supposed to be listening does not carry out the action or task that was dictated by the asker. In other words, the person heard the words, but did not LISTEN. He took the words in by one ear, and straight out the other with no response, as if he never heard it.
Item:
“It seems like you only have ROM in your head.”
Collector’s Notes:
ROM stands for “Read Only Memory.” Colloquially, the person “reads” or “receives” whatever the other person said, but does not act on the instructions given. It is also sometimes said to a significant other or a child, both who tend to be bad at listening.
Tags:
- Jokes
- Verbal folklore
- Verbal humor
- Computer science/IT
Khevna Joshi
Dartmouth College
RUSS 13
Fall 2020