Monday, March 1. 2010
Back Bucks
New Boss, Old Boss, and their boss had a meeting specifically about me this afternoon. I had an unrelated meeting with New Boss right before that and he mentioned it to me. I looked up Old Boss's calendar and it said something about "addressing the Kyle situation". Which I thought was totally awesome. When it was over, the deal was settled. We have to put the paperwork through yet but that's just a formality. It shouldn't take too long for that to get squared away. The important thing I got out of it is that Old Boss isn't going to make any static over this. I'm still missing some details, like if I'll still have to put in some time on Old Boss's programs (I suspect "yes" but don't know what the numbers will be), but I think we can get on the same page. Or, for all I know, they've already made the deals and I just haven't heard the details yet. So we'll see how that all works out.
Friday, when we got home, there was a message from the power company saying that parts of town would be without power around 5:30 Monday morning. You know, just a heads up. They didn't specifically say that we would be without power. Or that our neighborhood would have an outage. We inferred that we'd have an "interruption in service" because they actually called us to give us a heads up. I would like to meet the asshole who decided that having a ten minute outage Monday morning was a good idea. Should we do this on a Saturday when most/many people can sleep in and it doesn't matter if the alarm clock is all screwed up? Nah. Should they do it later in the week when people are back in the routine of getting up to go to work or school? Nope. Should they do it in the early afternoon when most people aren't even home and don't care? No way. No - we'll cut power to half the freakin' city right before everyone's alarm clock is going to go off. Awesome idea guys. Tell you what, maybe next time I'll swing over to your house and punch you in the balls first thing Monday morning. Deal?
Friday, when we got home, there was a message from the power company saying that parts of town would be without power around 5:30 Monday morning. You know, just a heads up. They didn't specifically say that we would be without power. Or that our neighborhood would have an outage. We inferred that we'd have an "interruption in service" because they actually called us to give us a heads up. I would like to meet the asshole who decided that having a ten minute outage Monday morning was a good idea. Should we do this on a Saturday when most/many people can sleep in and it doesn't matter if the alarm clock is all screwed up? Nah. Should they do it later in the week when people are back in the routine of getting up to go to work or school? Nope. Should they do it in the early afternoon when most people aren't even home and don't care? No way. No - we'll cut power to half the freakin' city right before everyone's alarm clock is going to go off. Awesome idea guys. Tell you what, maybe next time I'll swing over to your house and punch you in the balls first thing Monday morning. Deal?
