Work Status
Today was a landmark day in my career. For the first time ever, I had a conflict between two meetings. So I'm gonna mark down "5/21/03" on the calendar, as the first time I was important enough to have a scheduling conflict. It made me feel special, popular and powerful at the same time, to reject one of the meetings. I was like "Yeah... I'm too cool for you guys".
Yesterday I cleaned off the huge stacks of paper that were cluttering up my desk. It amazed me how much stuff can pile up in just over 7 months of working. At the bottom of some piles I found buried treasures that I couldn't find for the longest time. Scissors, Post-it notes, Listerine Pocket Packs, phone numbers of some random hoes I picked up along the way, and a couple highlighters.
(Now that I have a digital organizer, I'm glad I won't lose any more phone numbers to such sloppiness. By the way, if you would like to be added to my list of contacts, please email me with your info: name, birthday, phone number (cell/home/work), email address, URL, name/phone number of your assistant, and if whether you would like to be classified under "Personal" or "Business")
One thing I found was a memo dated 10/17/02, my second week at the company, from the manager on the first program I worked on. It described the general format and what I should include in weekly status reports. Now that I think of it, since then I've written about 30 of these "weeklys" between the different projects I've been on during these 7 months. But that was the very first one. I thought about keeping it for memories sake, but didn't. But still... ahh, memories.
If you ever visit the place I work, you will see that every cube has name tags of the people on the outside wall. Generally, these name tags are ordered in respect to the seniority of each person. Already, I find myself as the top name tag at my cube. Kind of weird to think that since moving in here in October, the original guy moved away, I had the cube to myself for a month, a new guy moved in, another new guy moved in, one of the new guys moved out, and just this Monday another new guy arrived. I am a model of consistency, the rock of this cube, I must say.
Finally, I would like to wish a special Happy Birthday to my favorite sister! Remember, you are definitely ranked among the top 3 Chens in my book.
