April 27, 2005
Dear Everyone:
This week’s Letter is a day early because tomorrow
night is ARMA night.
(Association of Records Managers and Administrators.)
The program will take place at the
This is also the last week that I will be working for BRES (“Boring and Really Expensive Services”.) On Saturday, which happens to be the first of May, all of the folks working in the Information Management function will be transferred into Company Information Technology Company (ITC).
Last week, while I was still recovering from the
flu, I helped put together the handouts for the big “Information
Management Transformation Workshop”.
This consisted largely of waiting for the manager to email me a
document. I printed the
document, filled out the copy center request form (180 copies each) and
walked the job over to Building J, where the copy center is.
This is precisely on the opposite side the big square that is
Company
After numerous trips across and back, we had 180 copies of all of the contents of the handouts. Next came collating and packaging everything into plastic envelopes, then figuring out how to mail the various collections of envelopes to such places as “Grapevine”, California; “Hobby”, Texas; and “Abbeville”, Louisiana, et. al.
Everything went out Thursday and mostly everything was received by Friday, this Monday at the latest. Yesterday was the big “Workshop”. Lots of organization charts. Talk of how the “BRES” culture differs from the “ITC” culture. Every operating company has its own culture. You can get away with things in one company that would get you keelhauled in another one, and vice versa.
Apparently, the BRES people “hug each other a lot”, while the ITC people “work very long hours”. I’ve already heard several people mutter that something will have to be done about that “mentality”. In reality, our jobs, locations, bosses will remain exactly the same as now. With the exception of how the billing is done, not much will change in the short run.
In other news…
Back at the beginning of April, before I came down with the flu and hovered at Death’s Door, I was in “Hobby” for a two-day meeting of my group, Global Records Consulting. One of the things we were each supposed to do was fill out a presentation on ourselves with background information.
And, just for fun, we were told to each come up with “three fun facts about yourself, two truthful and one untruthful.” My three were:
A)
While in college, I was approached by the
CIA
for recruitment purposes.
B)
It took me five years to earn two college
degrees.
C) In the early 1990’s, while working in the Corporate Records Management group, our manager would have me do a tarot card reading for the Corporate Records Management group as a whole, to predict how well they could expect to do in the coming year.
Which two are true and which one is the “untruth”? You decide.
In the meantime…
We are starting to form a Study Group at work to
prepare to take the
CRM exam.
There’s a group of professional records managers.
They formed the
Two of the people in our group are already CRM’s and we are being “encouraged” to qualify and take the exam. On the plus side, the exam is only given twice a year; so there’s time to get ready. Also on the plus side, forming a group to share resources and help each other with the tough stuff. Nevertheless, it’s going to be a lot of work.
Love, as always,
Pete
A)
True.
The CIA met with the head of the
B)
Untrue.
It took me three years to earn two degrees.
C)
True.
Only on Halloween.
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