April 17, 2008
Dear Everyone:
Last night’s
Homeowners
Association bi-monthly
meeting had a bit more drama than usual.
Consequently, it ran later than usual.
Which means I got to bed later than usual.
And woke up later this morning.
Not that I was worried.
Officially, I start work at 7:30.
Unofficially, I arrive somewhere between 6:45 and 7:15.
And even if I did come in late, I could just stay later to make
up for it. Or use the 45
minutes still left in the bank from last month.
And my first meeting of the day didn’t begin until 9:30.
So I sauntered through my morning routine, slowly
pulling myself together. But
I knew that some of my co-workers would worry if I hadn’t arrived by
7:30. So I went downstairs
to use my BlackBerry to phone one of the earlier birds at the office to
assure her that all was well.
That’s when I saw the appointment from our GIL 3
Governance and Compliance Feature Team leader announcing she’d called a
meeting for 9:30,
Central Daylight Time.
That’s 7:30 out here on the
So I kicked it into high gear and made it in to the
office just in time for the meeting.
It turns out that, literally overnight, the Powers That Be
decided to restructure our Team.
Previously, I was a “resource” for the “Compliance,
Audit and Appropriate Use” sub-team, affectionately referred to as
“CAAU” (pronounced “cow”.)
All team members indicated concurrence by saying, “Moo!”
(I am not making this up.)
That took up considerably more than half the 50% that I’m
committed to the GIL 3 project.
The other half (or less) went to the “Document
Management and Preservation Order Process” sub-team, affectionately
referred to as “DM&POP” (pronounced “dim-pop”.)
Now, suddenly, I’m a “resource” for “Document Control”.
No idea if it has a catchy nickname yet.
The “deliverables” section in the spreadsheet just said, “same as
before”. Since I have no
idea what that means, I’ll wait for someone to tell me what to do.
In the meantime, I’m racing to try and polish off
the Glossary that I’ve been slaving over the past few weeks.
Since at least three or four different people entered glossary
terms, and not all of them were very meticulous about keeping the style
consistent, it has a bit of a patchwork look to it.
Plus I’m adding links to the original glossaries
and helpful headers and cross-reference links.
I’m hoping to finish this before the Powers That Be decide to
take the whole thing away from me and hand it off to someone else.
In other news…
For some time now, we’ve known that we’re going to
be moved from our palatial 8-foot by 8-foot
cubicles in Building E into
more limited quarters in Building G.
The stated reason is so we can be closer, physically, to other
members of the Information Management Division, many of whom are already
in Building G.
The real reason is to squeeze as many people as
possible into as small a space as possible.
The latest ploy is to take a standard, one-person office, 150
square feet, and place two people, with “Sit-to-Stand” desks in opposite
corners.
Now, you could argue that half of 150 square feet
is 75 square feet. And an
8-foot by 8-foot cubicle is only 64 square feet.
So we’re actually getting more space.
But we’re also losing one table and one “storage tower” each and
that’s a lot places to put things.
Not to mention all the boxes under the table.
Programming Note:
The will not be a Letter next week.
I’ll be at the
Thursday will be packing day.
We have to be out of the office by 3:00 pm that afternoon and
can’t come in to our new offices until the following Monday, so I’ll
probably take Friday as my first vacation day this year.
Then, the joy of moving back in to new quarters.
I love moving so much I put it at the top of the list, right next
to getting a root canal.
Love, as always,
Pete
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