Now in no way is this a description of my actual job, but what actually goes on around me on a daily basis. Today there was a meeting with the CFO of the client and needless to say the room was empty for a good portion of the morning. Of course before the meeting there was an impromtu visit by the CFO to say hello to everyone. Now my teams stays seated while he comes in because there really is nothing to be discussed with him, other than hello, good morning, how are you....the basics. Within 10 seconds of the CFO walking in the room the "other team" members were up and about - in hopes of brown nosing some more...you know, more than the usual. The best part about this was that "the other team" members were completely ignored and then the CFO made his way down stairs to take part in his presentation. It couldn't have been scripted any better.
Shortly thereafter another guy walks in the room, he thinks he's a big shot but if you ask me all he does is follow around the CFO and make him happy, in one meeting he even translated for the CFO in the sense of "What he meant to say was...." Give me a break dude, that's not gonna get you anywhere in life. For those reasons we'll refer to him as Weasel.
Anyway...he walks in the room and puts salt on the fresh wound, walks right over to G-Man from the other team and catches him AGAIN surfing the internet (two days in a row!), oh it was just classic. Then the little Weasel sits down next to G-Man to further discuss and look into just what exactly is so important that he must be surfin the web during billable hours. Well he's looking for an apartment of course! How important is that!? I bet you his bill rate is something lie $300/hr. Maybe its time they perform a cost/benefit analysis on the importance of them on this project...they seem to be really good with Microsoft Excel anyway, may as well put their "skills" or lack there of to work. The way that it was left between G-Man and Weasel was "I'm still not paying for you on Friday's." This was the first attempt by their team to actually be on site for a Friday, I know this is a huge undertaking by them, because I'm sure they are usually on a beach somewhere...although G-Man...I'm not so sure that would be such a good idea for.
Did I mention for the most part my team gets along great with one exception....every so often we fight like a married couple.
Just another day! At least I can say I have fun at my job!
Shortly thereafter another guy walks in the room, he thinks he's a big shot but if you ask me all he does is follow around the CFO and make him happy, in one meeting he even translated for the CFO in the sense of "What he meant to say was...." Give me a break dude, that's not gonna get you anywhere in life. For those reasons we'll refer to him as Weasel.
Anyway...he walks in the room and puts salt on the fresh wound, walks right over to G-Man from the other team and catches him AGAIN surfing the internet (two days in a row!), oh it was just classic. Then the little Weasel sits down next to G-Man to further discuss and look into just what exactly is so important that he must be surfin the web during billable hours. Well he's looking for an apartment of course! How important is that!? I bet you his bill rate is something lie $300/hr. Maybe its time they perform a cost/benefit analysis on the importance of them on this project...they seem to be really good with Microsoft Excel anyway, may as well put their "skills" or lack there of to work. The way that it was left between G-Man and Weasel was "I'm still not paying for you on Friday's." This was the first attempt by their team to actually be on site for a Friday, I know this is a huge undertaking by them, because I'm sure they are usually on a beach somewhere...although G-Man...I'm not so sure that would be such a good idea for.
Did I mention for the most part my team gets along great with one exception....every so often we fight like a married couple.
Just another day! At least I can say I have fun at my job!
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