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The Roads Must Roll
12.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

So I get into work and only then do I find out that yesterday’s snowfall has indeed blown the city’s gasket and the company I work for has closed for the day, along with apparently most of the rest of downtown businesses, given how deserted it was when I got off the bus. That [...]
Work
Our Pain is Their Power
12.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Back at work. Hatred of working for The Man renewed. Fact that current boss is (as with most previous bosses) a woman noted as bitter, bitter irony.
UPDATE: I forgot my glasses this morning - just walked out the door this morning without ‘em. I am that most squinty of squinty creatures today.
Finance, Work
Perhaps a bit too late
12.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Seems like some of the information released here could have been announced at this time. I’m sure essentially being called a liar (”I don’t understand how you can say you feel comfortable with your capital position, and yet you say you can’t give us any idea what the number is,” he said. “At this point, [...]
Work
House of Pain
12.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

It turns out that the cubicle neighbor whose perfume gags me on occasion is not insensitively over-applying it and ignoring its effect on her co-workers. Rather, the body odor of the guy who waters the plants on our floor provokes her into a defensive spraying of the scent. She apologized to me if [...]
Walks with the dogs, Work
New distraction
12.01.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Back from Sacto and back to work. Should be getting stuck in to that but cannot be arsed. Could be because I am itching to check Facebook, to which I was introduced by my dear wife during our vacation last week. I’m going to assume it’s blocked from work and not even [...]
Politics, Work
A wild guess
10.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Because I get irritated by all the anti-mark-to-market bloviating going on, here is an apposite observation by Pierce Scranton, Chief of Staff to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors (feel free to discount any and all of his opinions if you: (a) hate advisors, (b) hate chiefs of staff, (c) hate the gubmint, (d) hate [...]
Work
Where I Am Kind
09.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’ve never gotten so many calls from worried investment bankers and money fund managers as I have this morning. Every one wants to alleviate any worries I might have about their products’ exposures to current market turmoil. Without getting into details, we’re not holding any positions that would cause me any worries, but I appreciate [...]
Work
Rat race
06.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Today my boss and her boss have been interviewing outside candidates for an open position in our department. What makes this a curious situation is that just yesterday I myself interviewed for this position. So today’s efforts are either just a gesture to pro forma competitiveness, a perfunctory prelude to offering me what is rightly mine, [...]
Work
Hold On
09.20.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

If I’m listening to music here at work, I’ll naturally take my headphones off when I notice someone entering my cubicle. There is one woman who, when she enters, waits until she sees that she’s got my attention, then starts talking. Which is pointless because at that point I’m just taking the headphones off. I [...]