Hey, how'd that Daylight Savings time shift work on your Outlook calendar? I pity building receptionists trying to sort out who booked which conference room first in the system before everything shifted an hour. Myself, I've only lost a few hours of standing around in meeting rooms stating, "I've had this conference room booked for months for my standing meeting." Not that the meetings themselves were all that productive when presenters read their slides instead of talking to those assembled.
Is it time for a dictator? At least dictators can get the trains to run on time.
For those "translucent-skinned" (inside MS blog joke) people who work 18 hours a day, get outside now and take a look at the cherry trees blooming. It may be the last beauty you see for a while as our Average Powers Leader starts moving the chess pieces around for FY08 planning.
Machiavelli is alive and well - it's like working on a thesis. You know you'll feel great when you're done, but it's bloody hard to get to some times when a gin and tonic is calling.
Spring weather also more people heading into the hills in the Pacific Northwest. Number two on the ten essential list is a compass. Was it just me, or was the Career Compass our HR overlords gave to us permanently affixed to point to Pain in the Ass? No wonder so many are heading to the hills.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Glad to have you back. We should get together and commiserate. Office 14 could not be shaping up to be any better...as a service pack...ugh. I hate my life, but need the paycheck. Loathe our leaders.
ReplyDeleteThis goes back to your Machiavellian observations, earlier, but does anyone else see a haunting similarity between Forest Whitaker's portrayal of Idi Amin - surrounded, as he is, by imaginary enemies and attacking, largely imaginary foes - and our own, current, glorious Helmsman, Mr Balmer?
ReplyDeleteI left that film wondering if I, too, had not wasted some of the best years of my own life, being someone else's "Little White (or, indeed, translucent-skinned) Monkey"...