I love my job...
Despite the fact that it seems to take upper management five times as long to make simple decisions as a sloth, I love my job. My program (there are four programs under an umbrella agency) decided that to make recruitment of volunteers easier, we need pictures of the volunteers that we already have.
Let me back up a moment. The bulk of my job, in case I have told you, is volunteer recruitment. I work for an agency called The Friends Program, and my program's name is the Junior Senior Friends Program. My program mission is to match 'at-risk' youth with adult volunteer mentors. If it helps, we do the same thing as the Big Brother Big Sister program, only we're based solely in NH (and if I might say so, we do it a little bit better).
Back to my tale...
Getting pictures of mentors and their matches, especially pictures of those who are surving in the community in which we're focusing our recruitment, helps to show people that, hey, real people that I know are doing this, why can't I? So, the request for a digital camera wasn't a bad idea.
That was eight weeks ago. Upper management had to meet, discuss the options that we had already spent a week gathering the information for, then come back to us and say (to seth) call our printing company, ask them how many megapixals they require for print quality. Now, having worked for a newspaper for three and a half years, who sent their proofs to a different company to have printed, I already knew this answer but they told me to call anyway. So I called the company, confirmed the answer I already knew, and then told them I was right.
Fine, great, they met again and since one of the upper management team had been to concord camera and asked one of the sales reps how many megapixals were needed for a print quality picture, they decided to send my immediate boss and I down to ask the same damn question. Now the sales rep, of course, told him that he needed 7 megapixals. Why? Because he's trying to make a sale! Of course he's going to tell you to buy the most expensive one! Ok, fine.
So yesterday, after going to concord camera, my boss was like, screw it, we've been debating this for far too long, lets just go buy a camera. I was like, ok! let's do it! We went to Circuit City, chose a good 5 megapixal, 10x optical zoom, which came with a printer dock and a free 256 mb memory card.
So the next surprise was that she say, eh, get two of them. So we got two. The best thing, and the point of this longwinded tale, is that when we got out she said to me: why don't you take a set for the week, play with it and give us a little tutorial. Um, ok.
So for the past two days, I've been playing with a 'free' camera and printing out photos (the paper came with it too). Oh yes, I love my job.
As a side note, I have such freedom over my schedule that I went into work today at 10, worked for about four hours or so, then went home.
Let me back up a moment. The bulk of my job, in case I have told you, is volunteer recruitment. I work for an agency called The Friends Program, and my program's name is the Junior Senior Friends Program. My program mission is to match 'at-risk' youth with adult volunteer mentors. If it helps, we do the same thing as the Big Brother Big Sister program, only we're based solely in NH (and if I might say so, we do it a little bit better).
Back to my tale...
Getting pictures of mentors and their matches, especially pictures of those who are surving in the community in which we're focusing our recruitment, helps to show people that, hey, real people that I know are doing this, why can't I? So, the request for a digital camera wasn't a bad idea.
That was eight weeks ago. Upper management had to meet, discuss the options that we had already spent a week gathering the information for, then come back to us and say (to seth) call our printing company, ask them how many megapixals they require for print quality. Now, having worked for a newspaper for three and a half years, who sent their proofs to a different company to have printed, I already knew this answer but they told me to call anyway. So I called the company, confirmed the answer I already knew, and then told them I was right.
Fine, great, they met again and since one of the upper management team had been to concord camera and asked one of the sales reps how many megapixals were needed for a print quality picture, they decided to send my immediate boss and I down to ask the same damn question. Now the sales rep, of course, told him that he needed 7 megapixals. Why? Because he's trying to make a sale! Of course he's going to tell you to buy the most expensive one! Ok, fine.
So yesterday, after going to concord camera, my boss was like, screw it, we've been debating this for far too long, lets just go buy a camera. I was like, ok! let's do it! We went to Circuit City, chose a good 5 megapixal, 10x optical zoom, which came with a printer dock and a free 256 mb memory card.
So the next surprise was that she say, eh, get two of them. So we got two. The best thing, and the point of this longwinded tale, is that when we got out she said to me: why don't you take a set for the week, play with it and give us a little tutorial. Um, ok.
So for the past two days, I've been playing with a 'free' camera and printing out photos (the paper came with it too). Oh yes, I love my job.
As a side note, I have such freedom over my schedule that I went into work today at 10, worked for about four hours or so, then went home.