A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Work
So, today I got handed the phone again, metaphorically, forcing me to work out how to actually get work done while in my 9,000,000,000,000-degree house with minimially functional internet. For me, it's not just a waste of time, you see, it's my route into the office's e-mail and trouble ticket servers, making my lack of access problematic to say the least. So I hemmed and I hawed and I tried in vain a couple more times to make things work in Casa de Klecha, but to no avail.
My options: Drive into the office, which is in Rochester Hills. Maybe if I'd started off at 5am, but not at 9 when I'm making these decisions.
Go find a semi-local client with A/C, internet, and a desk to spare. Unlikely, since all of my clients are dentists and tend to have a minimum of desks, much less free ones.
Go to the Sullivan-Schein dental equipment show room in Grand Rapids, where our salespeoples maintain a cubicle, but which also makes me in-house tech support for all of the S-S salespeoples and staff. Nuh-uh.
Get a hotel room. Ehhhh...
Or... call my old place of employment, which also happens to be my current provider of internet connectivity, and see if they have a desk open. Which they do, amazingly enough, and they're even happy to see me. Though, of course, they're not happy to hear that I'm having trouble with their wireless internet connection, but what can you do? At least now they know there's a problem, and maybe they can sort it out with their other clients in my area.
Anyway, so today was a bit on the surreal side, sitting in an office my wife had once occupied, before she was my wife, seeing my old co-workers, my old roommate and golfing buddy, and all kinds of new faces in the places where I remember old faces who seem to have left for greener pastures as well. (Although, when I "left," I was "asked" to "leave" because I didn't seem to be doing much "work." So I'm sure, on some level, the management was happy to see me come back, gainfully employed by someone else.)
The only bummer was when some of my old friends took off with some of the new faces for lunch and didn't invite me. But, well, I was only there for a day and if the DSL (coming on-line Monday, supposedly) and the A/C (next available install time February?) arrive in a timely fashion, this will likely be the last time that I have to ask them for office space.
But still, it was nice to get back and see everyone, and to know they thought it was nice to see me.
My options: Drive into the office, which is in Rochester Hills. Maybe if I'd started off at 5am, but not at 9 when I'm making these decisions.
Go find a semi-local client with A/C, internet, and a desk to spare. Unlikely, since all of my clients are dentists and tend to have a minimum of desks, much less free ones.
Go to the Sullivan-Schein dental equipment show room in Grand Rapids, where our salespeoples maintain a cubicle, but which also makes me in-house tech support for all of the S-S salespeoples and staff. Nuh-uh.
Get a hotel room. Ehhhh...
Or... call my old place of employment, which also happens to be my current provider of internet connectivity, and see if they have a desk open. Which they do, amazingly enough, and they're even happy to see me. Though, of course, they're not happy to hear that I'm having trouble with their wireless internet connection, but what can you do? At least now they know there's a problem, and maybe they can sort it out with their other clients in my area.
Anyway, so today was a bit on the surreal side, sitting in an office my wife had once occupied, before she was my wife, seeing my old co-workers, my old roommate and golfing buddy, and all kinds of new faces in the places where I remember old faces who seem to have left for greener pastures as well. (Although, when I "left," I was "asked" to "leave" because I didn't seem to be doing much "work." So I'm sure, on some level, the management was happy to see me come back, gainfully employed by someone else.)
The only bummer was when some of my old friends took off with some of the new faces for lunch and didn't invite me. But, well, I was only there for a day and if the DSL (coming on-line Monday, supposedly) and the A/C (next available install time February?) arrive in a timely fashion, this will likely be the last time that I have to ask them for office space.
But still, it was nice to get back and see everyone, and to know they thought it was nice to see me.