Tales from the Cube - Tall Desks

My days of having a large office are over. They were actually over the past few months. I'm now in a cube farm...in a basement. Who would have thought it would all come to this? However, I cannot complain too much. I have the largest cube of them all and so my lips remain sealed, kind of.

If I were to wear the fashionable heels of the day, my afro hair would grace the ceiling. One does not want to grace parts of this ceiling because spiders like it.

At least these basement cubes are new and at least I get a cool desk.

I can stand up while I work, or sit down or even bring in a bean bag to lounge on the floor. Yep, the desk plugs into the wall and throughout the day I can move it up and down according to my needs.

It moves and takes the laptop and flat screen monitor with it.

Folks, this makes all the difference. My life is complete.

Or so they think.

For inquiring minds, here's a demo - http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3vuwEfxNxCvCug1okWp61Q?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqMyd2N1avyHg&feat=directlink

Meeting Mania

I have literally been in 6-7 hours of meetings every day this week. If they were all one big meeting that would be exhausting. But, no, they are a series of one hour meetings all in different buildings with different combinations of people and with me in charge of leading about 1/3 to 1/2 of the time. This is when exhaustion becomes exhaustion and craziness!

This is partly why I wrote the blog entry below about my personality type - INTJ. I need a lot of alone time to catch up from these things and when I don't get that time I lose the ability to think straight. So, I have to look up some of my default behaviors and remind myself what NOT to do when I get tired and stressed from too much people interaction.

Let me tell you though - when I get more alone time - I might just write about all of these meetings because some could put The Office episodes to shame. There is a reason why these shows and Dilbert exist! I experience it every single day, except that sometimes those comedies look tame.

Ok, I've now exhausted my ability to even converse with a computer.

Signing off physically and mentally.

Going Postal at the Post Office

The holidays have officially arrived when everyone starts acting out like Far Side characters at the post office. Good-ness!

I walk in and stand in the obvious line. Of course, there is a little lady over at the side booth helping someone with special envelopes and such, but I don't go there. If no one else is going there it typically means they are pulling us all from the main line when our turn comes.

Is this obvious to anyone but me? No, it is not obvious.

Mrs. Postal Worker had to yell it to every new patron that started walking that direction. Most didn't hesitate and migrated over to the other line. Others decided to make a scene. One older gentleman barked back "We can't even get the Christmas spirit at the post office?" Of course, "Christmas spirit" by his definition meant that only he would receive special treatment. He could be seen a few minutes later getting in his car without getting any service.

A nice even older man (looked about 95 years old) came in a few minutes later. He was basically clueless as to what the lady was saying and kept walking closer to her as she got louder. Our entire line motioned to take care of him first. So, we heard her yelling at him every step of the way until his purchase was completed...which took forever because she ran out of bills and had to yell to him that he had to wait to get his three dollars.

Another woman had apparently come to get all kinds of old mail from a post office mailbox and then proceeded to stuff it all into three boxes and address them all at the service counter. All of this while we waited. I love process and logistical smartness and this kind of stuff drives me insane, but today I was just taking it all in feeling like this would be a good version of the postal system "The Office" sitcom.

I ended up with the lady at the side booth and she proceeded to spout off everything that had preceeded when I asked if it had been "An interesting day?"

It is amazing how the wonderful giving is often accompanied by stress, anxiety, and rush. Hopefully that won't overtake most of us this year and we can just slowly go about getting gifts and/or notes out to those we love and enjoy the response.

Happy Shipping!

So, seriously, this video is so real it's almost unbelievable...except to those that have worked for perfectly operating organizations. For the rest of us, it's just our own version of "The Office." I put this on my Blogger Pickles site, but just had to put it here too. Thanks for posting it to your blog Heidi.

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