April Fools - Are We?
Another productive day at work.
Weirdest thing happened at the end of the day. My counter-part at our competition HER (ha ha ha ha, I just did the HAL/IBM thing and it actually spells a word!) contacted us today to see if he and his team could have "a tour" of the "tracking database" I have been building and adding on to for the past 14 months. In the last year Counterpart has gone from the only data/IT guy in the company, to being low man on a 3 man totem pole. Counterpart knows a little bit about databases and I'm not sure how much, if anything the 2 new guys know. They also just hired a new director of data management at HEr, and she has an extensive database background. So I'm sure she wants them to start developing their own databases. I can't believe that she has the balls to send her peons on a hunting expedition. Ha! The want to poke around our main Monitoring Reports database, and find out what tools we are using. I don't think so. Not so much as a peep of sharing. I hope Little P straps on his own set of brass and tells CoWorker not to spill any of the beans either. But no, Little P has to go higher up to get validation that we don't share intellectual property with the competition.
On a more mundane level, I stupidly volunteered to head up the collection duties for pregnant Bride co-worker's shower present, a $200 stroller "system". Have I already whined about this? I must have, this all sounds familiar. I have to figure out how to ask people not invited to the actual shower, if they wan to contribute to the gift. My answer was to present the stroller at work and have it be from her co-workers (not connecting it to the shower at all), and we would serve cupcakes. But now I have to figure out how to actually ask the extra people. First draft was a group e-mail with a limerick and a cute baby in a stroller cartoon. I tried it out on coworker, and she said "I wouldn't use those words but whatever floats your boat." WTF? How about some constructive criticism or suggestions? =( Maybe it wasn't the limerick she didn't like, but the "this is the stroller we want to get and our fund-raising target is $240". That's probably the bad part. I didn't really like that part either. I'm so put off by this whole thing, and that the stroller is only available online, that I think we will collect what we collect and just give bride a gift card with whatever we get. She can order the stroller her own self.
So now, I think I am just going to do individual e-mails to the few other people that I know are Bride's friends. Hey, we are planning this, I thought you'd like to be included." No good deed goes unpunished. :-p
Tonight I am grateful for good leftovers. For the beginning of Baseball season (even though I don't go to the games, it get's other people out of the house for several hours). I am also grateful for being confident in my abilities for my job.
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