Month: March 2002

I wonder if I can submit the Ultimate Tech Support Cubicle floorplan for consideration. I would like DirectTV so I can watch Call for Help daily. [via nf0’s Life]

On a side note, I must note my amusement over the ad that appeared on the Cubicle site. Win an Ass Kicking! Maybe it’s just me, but while I would love to take a trip to Vancouver, they can keep the ass kicking, thankyouverymuch. Somehow Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Luke Perry just don’t scare me very much. Well, they do sometimes, but probably not in the way Showtime intended. Did they cancel “Leap Years” on me to replace it with this?!?? Meanies.

The day has come where I am giving up my comfy quiet office (with a door!) to move into the development room in cubite land at our office. But we don’t even really have cubes because there are no walls! I wonder if Todd will start a support group for the indentured cubites of the world. “To be deprived of privacy and silence has got to be a crime against humanity.” How am I going to survive? I know how. I’m buying big headphones this weekend. I may not even listen to music – just use them to keep out all noise. And I am going to somehow build a wall around my desk. Floor to ceiling, giving me as much peace as possible. At least there will be no more TPS Reports.

Just to clear things up, the people let go yesterday were not layoffs like I went through a year ago. No other rounds coming. This was truly a time where there was so much negative energy from the people that left that they just had to go. When you have people “secretly” providing good customer service to our clients because it is the right thing to do but it goes against process, that is all wrong. I mean, the customer service is right, and that’s what we are all about. Using process as a shield is wrong. I watched “Office Space” a few weeks ago, and I laughed so hard at the whole TPS report thing and the fact that he had 10 managers – because that’s where we were headed if “they” had had their way. Today the mood is entirely different, and it is a good thing… The pipeline is full, proposals closing soon, and so forth. All is well, I am not sitting on the edge of my seat fearing a layoff. Matter of fact, far from it. I believe in us, and as we have watched our competition close shop, we continue on.