Waxing_Gibbous
10-12-2009, 03:50 AM
I have to be. Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays, I have tele-conferences with parties in Houston, London & Singapore. Right now there is a particularly annoying American droning in my ear about "re-matricising the project structure to fully enable resources (me?) to better understand the parameters of process ownership". WTF!?
I think he's trying to say he wants us to re-organise so we know who does what. But he's a Houston office 'Tamagochi" who's been foisted on us by them and I'm beginning to guess why.
The thing is he really, really, doesn't know what he's talking about as WE already know what WE'RE doing (we're six weeks ahead of schedule and on-budget). Its just that HE doesn't know what's going on and rather than watch and learn, so he can put his Boston College MBA to some kind of good use, he's trying to take control and screw it all up by re-organising our day-to-day operations, just so it looks like he's doing something.
I wish he'd shut the hell up so we could all go back to bed or work, or they'd transfer him to somewhere like "Strategy & Planning" where he can think up all the bilge he wants and no-one will pay the least bit of notice.
I have a video link to my AM in Singapore and she's making hanging herself gestures, (amoung others), which is quite funny as she's very pretty and when she makes a face it really cracks me up
I'd much rather be "surfing" the moon which looks spectacular at the moment, but the Dob is outside and I REALLY have to step on this knob NOW and HARD or he's going to bollocks it all up as I can tell that he is just going to grind everyone down until they say yes because they've lost the will to live.
There.
I've interjected and told the room that while there might be some merit in his ideas, at this stage the project is too advanced to bear any "relational disconfluence" (which has just made Yi fall of her chair as this is a term we made up to describe a 100% grain-fed, SOB stirring things up) and maybe in the new year we'll revisit his interesting action items.
By then I won't care 'cuz they'll have made me redundant and I'll be sitting on a fat wad of cash and this bagel-brain can be Yi's problem. She doesn't suffer fools gladly and I can imagine her inviting him to Sinagpore and then getting him flogged because her husband is some kind of big-wig in the police.
God have mercy, he's stopped talking!
Now the Chairman is at it and he's obviously incandescent with rage
because he's supposed to have lunch with Gordon Brown or something and he's using THAT tone of voice. Instead he's wasted an hour listening to this git and the only reason he attended is because this is a huuuuge project and he likes to stay on top of things. We usually keep it brief so he can do whatever it is Chairpeople do in the afternoon. I think he appreciates that.
He's just thanked Yi and I for our patience and for getting up so early(which he's NEVER done before). Yi is so shocked she's feigning a heart attack.
Actually, we've both been at it since 07:00 yesterday but, hey, you take it where you can.
I feel all warm and fuzzy.
So that's me at 03:48.
You?
I think he's trying to say he wants us to re-organise so we know who does what. But he's a Houston office 'Tamagochi" who's been foisted on us by them and I'm beginning to guess why.
The thing is he really, really, doesn't know what he's talking about as WE already know what WE'RE doing (we're six weeks ahead of schedule and on-budget). Its just that HE doesn't know what's going on and rather than watch and learn, so he can put his Boston College MBA to some kind of good use, he's trying to take control and screw it all up by re-organising our day-to-day operations, just so it looks like he's doing something.
I wish he'd shut the hell up so we could all go back to bed or work, or they'd transfer him to somewhere like "Strategy & Planning" where he can think up all the bilge he wants and no-one will pay the least bit of notice.
I have a video link to my AM in Singapore and she's making hanging herself gestures, (amoung others), which is quite funny as she's very pretty and when she makes a face it really cracks me up
I'd much rather be "surfing" the moon which looks spectacular at the moment, but the Dob is outside and I REALLY have to step on this knob NOW and HARD or he's going to bollocks it all up as I can tell that he is just going to grind everyone down until they say yes because they've lost the will to live.
There.
I've interjected and told the room that while there might be some merit in his ideas, at this stage the project is too advanced to bear any "relational disconfluence" (which has just made Yi fall of her chair as this is a term we made up to describe a 100% grain-fed, SOB stirring things up) and maybe in the new year we'll revisit his interesting action items.
By then I won't care 'cuz they'll have made me redundant and I'll be sitting on a fat wad of cash and this bagel-brain can be Yi's problem. She doesn't suffer fools gladly and I can imagine her inviting him to Sinagpore and then getting him flogged because her husband is some kind of big-wig in the police.
God have mercy, he's stopped talking!
Now the Chairman is at it and he's obviously incandescent with rage
because he's supposed to have lunch with Gordon Brown or something and he's using THAT tone of voice. Instead he's wasted an hour listening to this git and the only reason he attended is because this is a huuuuge project and he likes to stay on top of things. We usually keep it brief so he can do whatever it is Chairpeople do in the afternoon. I think he appreciates that.
He's just thanked Yi and I for our patience and for getting up so early(which he's NEVER done before). Yi is so shocked she's feigning a heart attack.
Actually, we've both been at it since 07:00 yesterday but, hey, you take it where you can.
I feel all warm and fuzzy.
So that's me at 03:48.
You?