Thursday, June 18, 2009

Tales of the Bored - Day 19

The quest to become the most boring person within my zip code... in 32 days or less!

June 17, 2009 (Wednesday)

I had a meeting scheduled this morning with my boss via phone conference. He set the meeting up last Monday because according to him, they were making an announcement regarding our team's re-organization this Wednesday and he wanted to discuss it first with the people to be affected directly (i.e. those whose direct reporting lines will change) before the big announcement. I had a good idea how the change will affect me and I was trying to get out of the meeting for the following reasons:

1. Whatever it is they decided to do, I'm sure there is nothing I could do about it anyway. I figured I'd just deal with whatever it is when I get back (if ever I'm going to be allowed to go back at all);

2. Whatever it is, I'm sure my friends at the office will tell me about it after their meeting. And in a way, I'd rather hear it from them (I'm sure they can make it sound more interesting anyway :) What difference does it make if I hear the news a few minutes late? (My 1:1 meeting was scheduled at 9:00 AM and the big team meeting is at 10:30 AM).

3. Whatever it is, I'm sure it's important when you're thinking about work. But right now, I have other more important things to think about. I am scaring myself enough with what's happening to me. I'd rather not add to that.

I couldn't get out of the meeting so meet we did and I was right about how I thought the change will affect me. I had a lot of questions and I can't say I was satisfied with the answers but as I said, I really don't want to think about these things today.

I spent the entire early afternoon texting my friends at the office discussing how we all felt about the changes. Darn! I wish I could have gone online today so we can discuss this more thoroughly via chat. Texting can be so limiting! And then when my husband arrived home from work, I spend the entire early evening yakking about everything I heard. I'm not sure he was listening but it didn't matter. It felt good to hear about something other than what's going on at the latest hottest prime time soap opera or how the government is messing up again (i.e. news).

3 comments:

nicquee said...

hindi rin ako maxado nagtanong because i just want the meeting to finish early.

i mean wala ka nmn magagawa talaga diba? at ang mga tanong ko, not really affects me. un. selfish noh. hahahha

Unknown said...

I think it's early days yet. It's possible nothing actually changes in the way anyone does anything.

By the way, I dropped off a DVD I burned for you at Handuraw in case you do decide to get pizza tomorrow.

Cheers!

Janelle said...

I think sa content team, wala masyado kasi same boss pa din kayo... ako... waaaaahhh!!! bakit nyo ko nilaglag? nag-absent lang ako ng 3 weeks pinamigay nyo na ko??? haha.

Liana, got the DVD yesterday! thanks thanks! kaya lang magkikita na din naman pala tayo today, hehe.