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Drive by Writing
I assure you all that I am not pulverizing Halloween Skittles into bits, cutting them with cinnamon Altoids, and inhaling them for some freakish “trip.” But perhaps it’s wise if I take a short break from my stream-of-consciousness drive-by fiction.
[Update: For the protection of all involve, those stories have been removed.]
Over the last month, I have noticed El Jefe arriving later, leaving earlier. If I connected the dots one way, I could conjecture a very happy reason for this example of leadership by not being around to meddle. Unfortunately, with El Jefe is being sent to more classes and one-on-one consultations, it would appear the company still values his input.Productivity flourished until one the major file servers ran out of disk space. When this happened a couple of Fridays ago, I removed my backup copies of El Jefe’s magical mystery spreadsheets. While I was spending a few minutes identifying things to remove, Herr Crankypants sent out email to the entire fucking company.
I found about 30Gb of obvious things to remove. Half was temporary storage the VP of Sales used when he does his semi-annual migration to the most powerful laptop money can buy. The other half was a set of files in bizarrely-named directories like “E_BROKEN” and “backup.horked,” a convention the BM uses.
As a courtesy, I asked him to clean his stuff up. When I checked email later, he was still “looking into it,” which I have concluded is his code word for “Help me. I am in need of nano-management.”
If left on his own, he’ll ask four people, forget about it until I tell him again, ask four more, then come back to me asking if this is the right thing to do. Yes. I just deleted it.
El Jefe rolled into work mid-afternoon. As he is more of a “vision person,” he doesn’t grok the practicalities of sorting email by thread and time. When he reads the mail from Herr Crankypants, he responds to the entire company requesting people clean up stuff. Later, he thanks the company for their cheerful compliance to his earlier note.
