Month: January 2025
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The Important Stuff
Luckily, not much changes day-to-day for many of us with a given re-org. And I’m sure we wouldn’t impulsively burn our bridges – because experience tells us we may well be re-org’d back someday.
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Dropping The Bomb
I remember when swearing in a large-scale meeting was really jarring, but now it’s like a sign of authenticity.
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Party Crashers
Maybe it seems weird to imagine attending a stranger’s birthday party and nobody realizing it, but especially for those younger kid parties: you might not have ever met any of the parents or the other kids. Fun fact: little kids can be hilariously bad at identifying people! Trust but verify.
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How Old Were They?
Maybe I should have admonished my kid telling me to shut up, which wouldn’t usually be tolerated, but I (a) did feel bad about interrupting her and (b) was busy trying not to laugh in her face about the whole thing.
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Unexpected Returns
Luckily this was from 10 years ago, and I feel like we have, collectively, gotten better about working while on vacation.
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TGIF?
This was some years back, but I can still feel the visceral disbelief that it was fine to put the issue aside when they were ready to stop working for the day, but it could not be more urgent to wake us up at 2 AM.
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Overzealous
I can’t even be upset – it’s all true: I did go overboard (and it’s a bit oversaturated).
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Life Finds A Way
I recently rewatched the original Jurassic Park, and that movie is still great. You know, I feel like this is even the sort of thing that Ian Malcolm’s character would actually do, especially if he knew he was in a movie.
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That’s Our Line!
And to think that we put in so much effort to make sure we were never causing them any delays! Grrrr. Don’t get me started!