March 20, 1991
Dear Everyone:
Busy, busy, short, short week!
Short week because I’ll be off Friday.
“Jeannie” and I are going to Monterey, she to attend a seminar
and I to hang around the pool and read
Silence of the Lambs.
We saw the movie—Four Star Scary.
Short days because it’s my week to drive the big,
blue brute for my van pool; so I have to leave work at 4:00, which is
seriously cramping my style, which usually consists of
starting work at 4:00.
Up until that time, I’m just dealing with all the day’s
interruptions.
Busy because I’m working on yet another Active
Files Project for ”Public Manipulation” (this makes three now).
This is a “rush” job because some guy from “Hobby” is involved
and he goes back to Texas at the end of next week.
Unfortunately, “Alma” decided that this would be a marvelous
opportunity for our new person, “Ken White”, to get his feet wet on an
Active Files Project by “helping” me.
So “Ken” and I went and measured everything in
sight in the present File Room, which suffers from the usual “file room
syndrome”: When in doubt,
dump it in the file room.
But when I needed to use the raw data (so many filing inches of this,
that and the other), I couldn’t because “Ken” had decided it would be
more useful if he took it away and typed it all into a Macintosh
computer so he could “sort” it.
“Ken” is very fond of this Macintosh, which lives
in a PC Demo room up on the 18th Floor.
Which means every time I need some information, I have to go up
to 18 to find him and it. I
suspect that this is all a part of “Ken’s” campaign to get a Mac on his
desk. I’ve already lost
count of the number of times he’s complained “This could be done so much
faster on the computer”.
Unfortunately for “Ken”, Mac’s and PC’s aren’t
especially compatible (an important word for computers) and “Alma”
doesn’t want to get “mixed breeds” of computers.
Unfortunately for me, “Ken” is determined to prove her wrong.
The other reason we’re so busy this week is that
we’re moving. Remember when
I mentioned that our new manager thinks we should all have our office
over at 225 “Beelzebub” where the rest of Forms and Records Management
is already located? Well,
that’s not where we’re going.
We’re moving to “temporary” quarters on the 30th
Floor of this building at 575 MMM Street.
Which means I’ll be moving 2 doors down and 17 floors up from
where I am now. The Good
News is that we’ll each get our
own office! The Bad News
is that it will only last until CREMCO has our “permanent” quarters
ready in about six months.
(CREMCO is Company Real Estate Management Co and they own all of the
Company buildings. We’re
just tenants. Also, “Six
months” usually means more like “nine months” in CREMCO months.
They always under-guesstimate.)
We’re scheduled to move on Friday.
But, because I’ll be on my way to Monterey on Friday, I’ll have
to box up everything tomorrow which makes this week even shorter.
But hey! Anything to
have an office of my own, even if it’s just for 6-9 months.
“Kevin” says we’ll have to beef up our quarterly
status reports to make us look more productive so we can “justify”
individual offices when we move again.
Love, as always,
Pete
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