(I’m still working out a few snags with my cable modem, so the pics and write-up from Ouachita will have to wait) - In the meantime:
I’ve had a couple of experiences just recently that have brought to my attention how much of customer-service is simply the application of good communication.
It is now almost a full [...]
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Because I skipped a few too many days of posting and now I have all sorts of random everything to get down.
So.
1. I stayed home sick from work on Friday. I got this weird cold from Joel that seemed to go in reverse, starting with a nasty cough and winding up with stifling [...]
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Well, I may technically fail NaBloPoMo on account of not posting each of the entries I’m going to write during my stay in New Orleans, but I will write nightly my impressions of the trip, and I’ll get them up online when I get home. Since I’ve been having to tote this portly laptop [...]
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Today was largely a free-day, with the exception of a span of time in the evening during the event Grand Opening when we had to man the booth and start spreading the good word. The Grand Opening was a total zoo, but more about that later.
Today, mostly, I had free rein [...]
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I think I forgot to mention this yesterday, but people are <i>freaks</i> about giveaways at conventions. Seriously, people were just meandering around the convention hall, picking up schwag at random and in bulk. People were stopping at our booth asking, “what’s this,” then requesting to take three. It was astounding. People [...]
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I’m headed out of town again tomorrow. I’m one of four representatives from my department holding down the fort at a big civic government convention in New Orleans.
I’ll confess to you that I am pretty darn stinkin’ nervous right now, because I have never been to a trade show, let alone worked at one, and [...]
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Yesterday I felt terribly smug about how my journal has become significantly less whiney in recent times. I sure set myself up for something, let me tell you.
I had something akin to the adult version of Alexander’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day today. It was a day of bungling, being thwarted, and reacting [...]
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me: “I’m off for lunch…gotta deliver a possum and procure a false beard”
boss: (raises eyebrows) oooh-kay
me: It’s an artificial possum!
The plush possum was a joke gift for a friend, and the beard is part of the weekend’s Halloween Festivities Extravaganza.
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So, my time in my current department draws to a close. This job, which I eagerly accepted back in November, has turned out to be nothing at all like what I was expecting, and was frankly making me despair. Lucky for me, I had several applications outstanding within the HR system, and one [...]
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Did you ever have one of those days where you were inadvisably flatulent and you couldn’t find any reasonably socially acceptable place to relieve pressure? Because I can tell you that those days really suck. Now, I’ve been known to deploy retaliatory flatulence when fighting dirty, but thankfully those days are behind me [...]
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