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Contrasts

Oh, I think I'll get used to this just fine...

Let's see:

Covered parking garage.
Concierge service.
Two (2) restaraunts in the building (attached hotel).
Fitness center.

Compare that to a boss who'd sometimes hand out a shovel on a snowy day, saying, Guess who's turn it is..."

Oh, and within an hour and a half I'd fixed the broken macros in the Word form that had taken someone a complete day to get started, and had stumped their IT people.

When I'd shown up just before 8 my main contact there had admitted he was panicking because he had to get the document passed onward by 9:30. He asked if maybe I could try. At 9:35, when we'd been done for a little bit I pointed to the clock and said, "well, I guess that worked OK..." As far as he was concerned, I'd earned my day's pay before lunch time.

Posted by fictionman at November 13, 2006 09:18 PM | TrackBack (0)