Life in the Boy's Dorm: My Career at Sun Microsystems Part 19

Aint We Having Sun Fun Now?

At one event, (in a tent in Milpitas; more on this later), I thought it would be just swell to run a slide-show of all the folks who had been promoted that year...for some reason I felt we had to remind people of the opportunity at Sun in the '80's.  So, Dave Thompson, Howard Friedenberg and Curt Crosby started taking pictures of all of the folks who'd been promoted in the Workstation Division in FY'89 and my singer-composer-husband went into the recording studio to work on a parody I had written of one of the songs from Little Shop of Horrors.

Poor baby, pushed a broom,

Nothing in his life but doom and gloom,

Gotta job at Sun now give him room,

Took of like a rocket, holy cow,

That thing went, bang kaboom!

And he's having Sun Fun Now!

Sun Fun Now,

Aint he having Sun Fun Now

Bet he's having Sun Fun Now,

Sun Fun Now!

As some, "confetti" in the music we had thrown in some random "Sunisms"...if you listen closely you can hear a few executives names in the background...some product names....at one point Oh, Boy! is rhymed with Bill Joy!  Not exactly Cole Porter, but cute. 

Marketing got hold of the recording and my version of "Sun Fun Now" was played at nearly all of the Sun employee events.

Some years later at one company-wide event, in the early '90's, "Sun Fun Now" was blasting as we were leaving our seats at Shoreline Amphitheater...I was, to be honest, kinda proud of my little ditty's staying power. 

Until I heard a software engineer say, "I wish they would find whoever the hell came up that God-damn song, stick their head in a toilet and flush...do we look like we are having Sun Fun Now?"

Ouch.

More soon.