omg office space attack
i am currently sitting in a giant conference room with like, 20 people.
supposedly we are QAing the staging for the spring launch on lowes.com.
no one has bothered to actually tell me what this entails... the best i can figure is that it means that you run through the staging site and test everything and proof it all and test the functionality, etc. BUT, no one told me where i'm supposed to go to log anything. or what the actual process is. they just invited me to tag along to this "meeting" -- which isn't really a meeting because there is no meeting being done, we are all just sitting in a room. and now everyone is on their laptops, and there is some chatter happening, that i don't understand. and half the people in here have not slept in 3 days, LITERALLY. so i'm kind of sitting off in a corner, with my laptop, looking over the site, but there is nothing i can actually DO. which makes this a complete waste of time.
and they are throwing away major corporate lingo:
let's take this offline
i'll QA that with the team
let's take a look at the assets
blahblahblah
not that i have anything to do back at the other office either.
now for the NOT office space part:
we are at the giant corporate headquarters today. it is GIANT. like, airport sized. no joke. as we walked from the place we parked to where our meeting room is, i kept expecting that we would come upon those walk-a-vators. this place is HUGE. it is also beautiful. they put a lot of thought into making it a pleasant space. there is a little river that runs underneath the building, with waterfalls. there are several atriums throughout. there is lots and lots of light and glass and green. it's just really beautiful. and the whole place is wireless, even outside, so when you get sick of working in your cube, you can go to one of the other areas of the building and work. it's going to be hard to walk away from.. it's one of those really unique situations that doesn't come along very often. it's going to be very very good for me, i think.
and it's good for me to be going to work every day. not necessarily the office environment, i'm still not convinced this is what i want -- unless i could always work with awesome people, and that just doesn't happen most of the time. but having to go to work every day is good for me. i love working from home and the flexibility of that, but having to actually get dressed and all of that is really good for my mental state. and i think even having to be "on" -- having to be cheerful and be happy -- has that sort of "fake it til you make it" effect in a way. and there's the fact that my brain is being engaged again, really being challenged. it's good for me.
...
and tonight is going to be awesome!
i am going home, which means i get to see the ddc! i have MISSED them! i cannot wait to just dogpile with them. and the weather is going to be awesome this weekend, which means we can go to the river both days, and they will loooooooove it.
AND. dave is calling me tonight. it has been for.ev.er since he's been able to call! we get to email every day, but hearing his voice is something else entirely. being able to laugh with him, and have a real conversation, the real back and forth and reaction time... he's only allowed to talk for 15 minutes, which seriously sucks, and feels like jail, but.. it's something. and i'll fucking take it.
this weekend is also the halfway point of his deployment! raaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
...
now i need to hunt down more coffee.
supposedly we are QAing the staging for the spring launch on lowes.com.
no one has bothered to actually tell me what this entails... the best i can figure is that it means that you run through the staging site and test everything and proof it all and test the functionality, etc. BUT, no one told me where i'm supposed to go to log anything. or what the actual process is. they just invited me to tag along to this "meeting" -- which isn't really a meeting because there is no meeting being done, we are all just sitting in a room. and now everyone is on their laptops, and there is some chatter happening, that i don't understand. and half the people in here have not slept in 3 days, LITERALLY. so i'm kind of sitting off in a corner, with my laptop, looking over the site, but there is nothing i can actually DO. which makes this a complete waste of time.
and they are throwing away major corporate lingo:
let's take this offline
i'll QA that with the team
let's take a look at the assets
blahblahblah
not that i have anything to do back at the other office either.
now for the NOT office space part:
we are at the giant corporate headquarters today. it is GIANT. like, airport sized. no joke. as we walked from the place we parked to where our meeting room is, i kept expecting that we would come upon those walk-a-vators. this place is HUGE. it is also beautiful. they put a lot of thought into making it a pleasant space. there is a little river that runs underneath the building, with waterfalls. there are several atriums throughout. there is lots and lots of light and glass and green. it's just really beautiful. and the whole place is wireless, even outside, so when you get sick of working in your cube, you can go to one of the other areas of the building and work. it's going to be hard to walk away from.. it's one of those really unique situations that doesn't come along very often. it's going to be very very good for me, i think.
and it's good for me to be going to work every day. not necessarily the office environment, i'm still not convinced this is what i want -- unless i could always work with awesome people, and that just doesn't happen most of the time. but having to go to work every day is good for me. i love working from home and the flexibility of that, but having to actually get dressed and all of that is really good for my mental state. and i think even having to be "on" -- having to be cheerful and be happy -- has that sort of "fake it til you make it" effect in a way. and there's the fact that my brain is being engaged again, really being challenged. it's good for me.
...
and tonight is going to be awesome!
i am going home, which means i get to see the ddc! i have MISSED them! i cannot wait to just dogpile with them. and the weather is going to be awesome this weekend, which means we can go to the river both days, and they will loooooooove it.
AND. dave is calling me tonight. it has been for.ev.er since he's been able to call! we get to email every day, but hearing his voice is something else entirely. being able to laugh with him, and have a real conversation, the real back and forth and reaction time... he's only allowed to talk for 15 minutes, which seriously sucks, and feels like jail, but.. it's something. and i'll fucking take it.
this weekend is also the halfway point of his deployment! raaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
...
now i need to hunt down more coffee.