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[twicketface]

$25 to fill up my gas tank last night. The person before me spent almost $40.

I find it interesting that when given a deadline, people come to me the day of the deadline and explain how busy they are. Nevermind they have known about the deadline for three weeks and that everyone else had no problem complying.

I think Creep is the only Radiohead song I've ever heard.

Prius test drive has been moved to next Wednesday. "Vic" sounds like the stereotypical car salesman. Hilarity will surely ensue.

Should I be creeped out by this? My 'team' sent me a birthday card (as they are located 90 miles south). Everyone wrote in normal birthday sentiments (Happy Birthday, Have a Good Day, etc) except for my boss's boss, who wrote, and I quote,

"Brian,
You are the special one. That's for sure.
HER NAME"

Is she trying to be unique or does she, in all actuality, believe that I am the Messiah?

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[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that when given a deadline, people come to me the day of the deadline and explain how busy they are. Nevermind they have known about the deadline for three weeks and that everyone else had no problem complying.

The best thing I've ever heard in relation to this happened when I was working at a landscape architectural firm. One of the guys was on the phone, laughing a little cruelly. He finally said, "(client's name), you've known about this deadline for five months. I told you that if you wanted mt to help on this project, you'd need to get things to me by three months ago. The deadline is next week. No, I'm not going to work on this. Just because you procrastinated doesn't mean I have to pick up the slack."

I wanted to applaud.

"Brian,
You are the special one. That's for sure.
HER NAME"

No! I'm Brian!

[twicketface.livejournal.com]

That's the hard part of my job - determining if I can tell the larger cogs what to do. But I really like that approach.

When I take over, things will be quite different.