November 10, 2005
Dear Everyone:
Back in May, when the Information Management (IM) function was taken out of “Boring and Really Expensive Services” (BRES) and moved to the Information Technology Company (ITC), the piece that concerns records retention was moved to a different part of ITC. It went to Information Protection (IP). This make sense because part of IP is knowing when it’s OK to destroy records and when it’s not.
About a month ago, the person who was responsible for the company retention schedule in IM, now in IP, called and left me a voice message asking if I felt comfortable about giving training on records retention to some of the employees who had come from That Other Company that we had just acquired. I called back and got her voice mail and left a message that I felt just fine about retention training, but that she should contact my supervisor.
My supervisor, in turn, apparently advised her to enter it into something called the “Store Front”. This is an application that ITC uses for all requests for IT, or IM, services. If you want a programmer to design a relational database for you, you go into Store Front and fill in the blanks including what percent of a person’s time you think the project will need.
Every week, the supervisors and managers get together and go over the requests in the Store Front, comparing them to a huge spreadsheet that has everyone’s projects and what percentage of time the projects are using and which persons might have some free time coming up. Then they decide how to allocate their “resources”. (“Resources” means people.)
Since the IP person had specifically requested
“someone like ‘A’”, I was assigned to handle the training in
There are some details that I would still like to
get more background on, but other than that, I’m ready.
And I was starting to look into the best way to travel to
El Segundo,
Then last Tuesday, in our Certified Records Manager (CRM) study meeting, another person who also works in IP mentioned that he and his supervisor were wondering why I was asked to do the training when that’s their job. Suddenly the “Hobby” person and I got an email asking what we had scheduled so far and don’t do anything else until I get back to you.
Since then, silence.
Maybe I won’t be going to
In other news…
“Jeannie” and I finally bit the bullet and went to
a movie on Sunday. We had
originally planned to see it on Saturday, but were a little late getting
started. So we decided to
have lunch and go look at
toilets (“Jeannie” needs to replace the ones in her townhouse) and
see the movie at
A large sign said all movies before
Prime stars Meryl Streep as Lisa Metzger, a Jewish therapist. Uma Thurman plays one of her patients, “Rafi” (short for Raphael). Rafi has just gone through a harrowing divorce, with Lisa’s help, when she meets a young man. David is 23, Rafi is 37. Right off the bat they start lying about each other’s age to other people.
Lisa encourages Rafi to enjoy herself. Lisa doesn’t realize that David is her own son. When she does, it knocks her socks off. Most actors have a repertoire of nervous gestures. Streep has an entire orchestra.
This movie could be classified as a romantic comedy because it has a romance and there are many funny parts in it. It’s a bit more than that, since it explores a relationship where the one person who holds all the power is the older woman. It’s not a May-December affair, more like May-September. As such, it’s definitely worth the matinee price.
Love, as always,
Pete
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