It's interesting. I don't recall having reservations about mentioning Sara Lee in blog posts. Maybe I didn't mention them by name, maybe I did. I don't feel like searching to check.
I don't really recall saying much about the recall center, except perhaps some amusing or frustrating moments/calls from time to time.
As for the dealership... on one hand I've wanted to plug it properly. On the other hand, I haven't been sure how appropriate that would have been, and it would have limited the kinds of things I could have said about them and my experience there.
More than at any other job, I've kept my personal and professional lives separate there. Some of it comes from having spiritual views differing from the mainstream. Retail working on commission isn't the time or place to spark controversial conversations. Not when your pay depends in part on your customers liking you. Just not good odds. I also got the feeling early on that it might not have been a comfortable conversation to get into with some of them. Out of the work place, a month from now, chatting comfortably with a beer or something, yeah, then there's a conversation that could be very interesting with at least one of them in particular. But not, I think, at work during a professional setting.
So maybe that flavors how I feel about posting about the new company.
As for the job itself: They're a foodservice logistics company. A distributor. They have trucks that leave their distribution centers (DCs) full, make delivery routes, and then come back empty. They also have trucks (theirs and suppliers' both) that bring goods to those DCs and go the other way empty.
Someone realized that didn't make a whole lot of sense. So they've built a new logistics team to redo how they handle shipment planning. They've been letting each DC handle the day-to-day, get-it-there-on-time planning. Tactics, short-term. The new team will be about figuring out the strategy, the longer-term planning, and letting the local DC teams implement it.
I'll be the admin support for that group and their leadership. Probably a lot of communications, schedule management for the meetings to coordinate it all, some reporting... stuff like that.
--I had meant to post more about the job and company, not on why I've been vague in general. Of course, now I'm getting low on time to get out of here. I'm kinda trying not to count the days, but at the same time I kinda am... :-)
Posted by fictionman at November 3, 2006 07:47 AM | TrackBack (0)