(Don't disguise your voice.)ģ) Insist that your e-mail address be or Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.ĥ) Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.Ħ) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it 'IN.'ħ) Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.Ĩ) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. As many variations as there are forwards in your inbox that you have no interest in.ġ) At lunchtime, sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.Ģ) Page yourself over the intercom. Similar to that email from forever ago.but I'm sure there are thousands of variations. Poor guy.Īs always, in accordance with the prophecy. He just quietly left a few minutes ago.I gave him a little wave. I somehow think that in an office with an ever-shrinking number of staff members, it wouldn't go unnoticed. Like, "Hey, Mike, would you mind taking this dry cleaning in and maybe figuring out for me where I should go to buy coffee.maybe do a cost benefit analysis of it?" Or "Would you mind trimming these photos of my family Christmas vacation to 3 inches by 4 inches and pasting them in this scrapbook?" I almost wish I could appropriate him for my own needs. I personally hoard work that is ridiculous for me to do at my level. I recognize that lost look in his eyes. He eagerly goes from office to office with a legal pad and pen asking if we have anything for him to work on. There's no coordination on what he'll be working on, so he constantly has to ask what to do. None of this is of any consequence because every time Mike comes in, he has nothing to do, international development related or otherwise. Anyway, Mike's interests really lie in international development. As it turns out, this isn't the case, though Mike did travel to the Middle East during a study abroad stint. Rumor had it that he had met him on a plane flying back from Egypt. Apparently, he got the job because one of our vice presidents is friends with his dad. I am pretty sure he doesn't even have an interest in what we do. That's okay, I mean, you're talking to a liberal arts grad who was an English major and spent her last year of school explaining that, no, she didn't plan on being an elementary school teacher. From what I can tell, he didn't study anything remotely related to what we do. He just graduated in December from an expensive local university. I'll call him Mike though that isn't his real name. My, how things change.and yet how they stay the same. Though, if you are anything like I was, you have an inflated sense of importance and a misty eyed view of the change you will make on the world. Your life is fraught with a lack of direction and importance.
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