YAWN! Anyone else up at 3 AM?

Waxing_Gibbous (Peter) · #1 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?

asimov (John) · #2 10-12-2009, 04:25 AM

Yeah, just got home from work. Start at 4PM with an 'open ended finish' which means usually 4AM but this morning it was 2:30AM. I'm tempted to set the scope up for Saturn but I think I'll resist the urge until my days off.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 10-12-2009, 08:00 AM

3am this morning I'd just finished sorting through the evenings data and was readying DSS to stack while I sleep.
LOLOL
Up again at 6am.

Octane (Humayun) · #4 10-12-2009, 08:53 AM

Peter,

That was beautiful to read.

moar!

Regards,
Humayun

AstralTraveller (David) · #5 10-12-2009, 09:44 AM

Thank you. My job suddenly seems so much more acceptable.

DJDD · #6 10-12-2009, 09:48 AM

awesome- made my morning. thanks for posting.

at 3AM, all i was doing was having zombie-attack nightmares...

renormalised (Carl) · #7 10-12-2009, 10:06 AM

3am, well I was asleep, but I would've given anything to see that little comedy

. I'd have told him to shut up, I wouldn't have put up with it.

I find if they can't say what they mean in as little as possible, they don't know what they're doing. "Re-matricising"...does he think you're all plugged into some giant computer

. He'd better watch out, Mr Smith might get him!!!

Ric · #8 10-12-2009, 10:14 AM

You have an interesting job Peter.

I was up at 3.30am this morning to give the cat his breakfast as he had decided that it was a good time.

No point ignoring him as he has developed the art of a whining meow which wears you down after about ten minutes. I suppose it's a good opportunity to check the morning sky.

AstralTraveller (David) · #9 10-12-2009, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ric

You have an interesting job Peter.

I was up at 3.30am this morning to give the cat his breakfast as he had decided that it was a good time.

No point ignoring him as he has developed the art of a whining meow which wears you down after about ten minutes. I suppose it's a good opportunity to check the morning sky.

You must really love your cat. I reckon I'd find out if he can meow under water.

telecasterguru (Frank) · #10 10-12-2009, 10:38 AM

3 am is a figment of someone's imagination.

Frank

renormalised (Carl) · #11 10-12-2009, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by telecasterguru

3 am is a figment of someone's imagination.

Frank

The Matrix

Ric · #12 10-12-2009, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

You must really love your cat. I reckon I'd find out if he can meow under water.

He's a grand old boy at 14.

And still a champion mouser.

erick (Eric) · #13 10-12-2009, 11:48 AM

unless meteor shower or starcamp time!

Waxing_Gibbous (Peter) · #14 10-12-2009, 12:08 PM

Thanks all. The wee hours can be lovely, what with the sky and the wildlife etc.
But most definately not when there's a middle-age Texan binding-on in your ear-'ole.

renormalised (Carl) · #15 10-12-2009, 12:15 PM

Next time he rabbits on like that, ask him does he like hot air ballooning

matt · #16 10-12-2009, 01:48 PM

Yep....

My alarm clock was just going off at 3am.

I'm on the breakfast shift at work at the moment, in the lead-up to my Xmas break. This is the penance for my sins!!!!!

Very funny read, that, Peter. I had a look this morning when you posted but didn't have time to reply.

I am sooooo lucky I don't have to do those sort of conference calls these days. Oh man!

Rainingstar (Lorraine) · #17 10-12-2009, 02:02 PM

I was awake on and off all night yet again - thanks to the neighbours yapping dog. We live in a beautiful rural residential area,at the moment there are 21 houses and 22 dogs. It really takes some of the shine off living the country dream, at least when we lived in the city people seem to keep their dogs quiet at night, not this lot though. We also have a beautiful old cat, he's a Devon Rex and he is nearly 14. He also thinks 4.00 a.m. is getting up time, but we love him anyway.

pgc hunter · #18 10-12-2009, 05:02 PM

No, too damn cloudy as usual to be up at that hour...

Jen · #19 10-12-2009, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

You must really love your cat. I reckon I'd find out if he can meow under water.

yeah that is one spoilt cat

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #20 10-12-2009, 08:25 PM

I usually have to work early in the morning so need my beauty sleep, that is why i am so ugly

I hope to be able to stay a lot longer this saturday at Tammin. Whether my body or mind will be a different story.