the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

I figured out the nom de plume (nom de travail?) that I can use in place of my company's actual name. I work in the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation!

Not a Douglas Adams fan, eh? No matter, I'll explain.

In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the other four books in the trilogy (sic), some of the least successful and/or most annoying devices are made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, including:

* Marvin the Paranoid Android, whose first words are "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed." Marvin is a GPP prototype (genuine people personality), and he spreads misery like Typhoid Mary, only funny.

* the elevators in the headquarters of the Hitchhiker's Guide, aka "happy vertical people transporters", which can see into the future so they'll be at the floor you are when you want them, and which therefore know the building is about to be highjacked and don't want to take Zaphod up (Have you considered all that 'down' has to offer?).

* the Nutrimatic Drink Synthesizer, which analyses the user's tastes and preferences, then provides a cup of some liquid that is "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." Arthur, who really, really wants his tea, tries to argue with the machine and, when told that the drink was formulated to meet his needs, replies, "Ah, so I'm a masochist on a diet, am I?"

The point is (yes, I have a point), there are frequent references to the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (motto: share and enjoy). Also, the 5 books are available in audio versions, read by Adams himself, which I highly recommend, and over the years I've listened to them so often, I know whole sections by heart (at which times it's good that I don't live with anyone who would be driven mad by my habit of chiming in with the tape; certainly the cats don't care). I have a more audio than visual familiarity with these books.

So, when I started to work here, I found that any mention of "the Marketing Department" would bring an inevitable conclusion to my mind: "of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation". (I have managed not to share this at work yet.) My company has nothing in common with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, being good and successful, but there we are, my brain makes the association and there's just no stopping it. No hard feelings?