December 6, 2007
Dear Everyone:
The Enterprise File Plan (EFP) is very close to being “officially” completed. Now we just have to drive a stake through its heart before it can rise again. I spoke with the team leader this afternoon and she confirmed that my part of the project is completed and she doesn’t know yet what will happen next. So that’s that.
(Incidentally, please don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that you can kill a vampire by simply driving a wooden stake through its heart. Bram Stoker and Buffy the Vampire Slayer notwithstanding, it just doesn’t work. The only thing the wooden stake is good for is pinning the vampire in its grave so it can’t escape. To be sure of killing a vampire, cut off its head and burn the body. Personally, I’d burn the head as well, but separately. You can never be too careful with these things.)
So what am I doing with my time at work?
Well, I’m starting on a project with the “Tiddly” group in
Expatriates.
These are the people who make sure that company employees who are
working outside the
When you start a project, there’s some upfront time when you’re getting an idea how big the project will be and what needs to be done. Then you write a proposal. If the customer likes the proposal, they green light the project and give you a charge code. Up until that time, you charge your time to your own charge code. Once you get the customer’s charge code, you can go back and change the codes on the time you’ve already spent.
Except, you can’t go back across to the previous year. Chances are, this project will not get started until January. Any time I spend this month will have to go uncharged, which means we eat it.
So instead, I’ve been spending time that can’t be charged anyway in cleaning up my cubicle (amazing how cluttered they can get) and cleaning up my email. I’m pretty good about keeping my Inbox clear. When I receive and read an email message, I move it to the appropriate folder. But I’m not so good about Sent Items. In fact, as of this morning, I had over 5300 items in Sent Items.
So I spent the afternoon listening to my MP3 player and moving/deleting messages. By quitting time, I’d cut it down to a mere 4600.
By the way, in case you’re wondering, “MP3” is short for MPEG Part 3. “MPEG” is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group. These are the people who got together and decided on the format to be used to digitize movies, and their soundtracks. If you’ve ever seen the term “JPEG” (often used by digital cameras), it stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, who decided on the format for still photographs in digital form.
These are the things you learn when studying about Managing Electronic Records in preparation for the CRM Exam.
Love, as always,
Pete
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