Apr 04 2007
keeping it real - old post.
When I converted my old and nearly-abandoned MT site to WP at the beginning of the year, I discovered several draft posts that were years old and had never made it to the “published” state. Here’s one from September of ‘02 describing a scene at my previous job. I have no real recollection of this event, but can pretty much guess at the players involved. Cracks me up.
I work with a bunch of engineers. Today I was in a meeting with a number of high-level managers and mucky-mucks in our company, which can sometimes be daunting (all that brain-power in one room!) if one doesn’t know them very well. I’ve been here long enough to have interacted with a number of them frequently, so I’m no longer as intimidated or “in awe” as I was when I first started working for this company. They’re really a great bunch of people, and today two of them gave prime examples of how Mucky-mucks Are People, Too:
Gotta love it when you look up near the end of the meeting and catch one of the upper-level managers making a paper airplane from the meeting handout.
We were having a discussion on our corporate email filters and how well they work (or don’t) at keeping out spam. One manager mentioned that he didn’t think there were many filters in place these days, as he’s been getting tons of porn spam in the last couple of weeks. One of the company Fellows, with a mock look of disappointment, interrupted: “Huh. I didn’t!!”
