February 14, 2008
Dear Everyone:
Things have gotten very busy at work the past
couple of weeks. If you
count languishing in four-hour-long meetings as being busy.
A few weeks ago, The Powers That Be decided to form
“Feature Teams” in the manner of the Software Company That Shall Remain
Nameless. So what used to be
called the Information Management Fundamentals Team (IM Fun) is now
called the Governance and Compliance Feature Team (G&C FT – so much
easier to pronounce.)
And because the G&C FT can’t be expected to do all
the work by themselves, they formed about six to eight Sub-Feature
Teams. I found myself on two
of these Sub-Feature Teams:
Document Management and Preservation Order Process (DM/POP); and
Appropriate Use and Best Practices.
The latter didn’t get a cute acronym because in our first
meeting, last week, we discovered that we were already being taken over
by the Compliance and Audit Sub-Feature Team.
The Team Leader, a contractor in
So now I’m in weekly DM/POP meetings and, as of
today, CAAU (they even found a cute graphic of a cartoon cow to include
in all communications) will meet every Monday and Wednesday from 11:00
to 1:00, Pacific Time. In
other words, those of us in
However, this only accounts for 50% of my time,
disregarding the fact that they took all day Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. The other 50%
goes to the “Winks” Department Project.
And that also breaks down into two functions.
Half my time goes to quality checking the Trademarks Applications
and Registration correspondence files indexing.
The other half goes to evaluating a bunch of boxes of records
that the "Sovreignty" group (in “Winks”, not the software Feature Team)
found during some cleanup days which the group feels can be destroyed.
Also, the “Really Boring” group has begun boxing up files that
they think can be destroyed as well.
So I have lots and lots to do these days as long as
I keep my percentages even.
And that certainly beats twiddling my thumbs and cleaning up old emails
like the end of December and most of January.
Plus I get some variety.
I will, however, miss having lunch those two days.
(No, I don’t go hungry.
I bring stuff from home and eat during the meeting.
Since I’m on the phone, no one else sees me eating and I can mute
my phone so they don’t hear me chewing.
But I like to read during my lunch break and I won’t have a
chance those two days. We’ll
see how it goes…)
Love, as always,
Pete
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