Work

The All-Hands Meeting

Conference center welcome beeps
important message from the veeps:

"Innovation Home Workstation(blah)
Value-Added Branding Rules
Customer(blah blah) Sales Transformation
(blah)Winning Global Action Tools
Advantage Reaching (blah blah blah)Competition
Total Core Competency
Local (blah)Area Solution
Practice Ethics(blah) Policy
Powerful Alignment Session(blah blah)
Team(blah) Acquired Network Port
Training Scheduling Concession
(blah)Profit End-of-(blah)Year Report."

Back to work. Can hardly wait
for next time they communicate.

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I've felt quite a range of emotions this past month at work, a few short weeks before I leave; running the gamut from bored to furious to grateful to nostalgic. The hardest part of the job—of any job—is working with people, and although this office is homogenous in a lot of ways, we definitely have a variety of personalities. I have learned a lot by rubbing shoulders with them.

I'm going to miss a lot of things, but one thing I won't, I have to say, is tangled corporate hierarchy and jargon. Don't tell the bigwigs, but during the conference call meetings our office has paper airplane wars. I will miss those.