Monday, October 16, 2006
I think I may have put my foot in it today. I was invited to the farewell do of a friend who had only been in the job 5 weeks. Her boss was all smiles but lamenting, "Oh, this is my third assistant to leave in a year. I don't know what I am doing wrong." Inevitably I quipped, "Oh I've heard of that movie: 'The Devil wears Prada' isn't it?" There was an embarrassed silence from the crowd and a glare from the boss. Perhaps the story of a vicious boss feared by her employees was a little too close to home. Oops. I hastily passed around the chocolate mud cake. Yum.
Not that I should care who I offend at work these days. An edict has been issued from on high that the department will be closed on schedule at the end of March despite our protests. I console myself by humming Joni Mitchell songs and murmuring, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" Somewhere down the track they will realize that closing us down was a mammoth error but, of course, nobody will be able to admit this. So, instead, all will go quiet for five years and then some bright, young, thrusting exec will come up with an idea. "Hey, I know how we can get more foreign students to come to our uni. Let's offer them English lessons." I don't think I can afford to wait that long so I'd better get to work on polishing up the CV.
Current weight (continuing to creep ever upwards) 78.3 kg
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Not that I should care who I offend at work these days. An edict has been issued from on high that the department will be closed on schedule at the end of March despite our protests. I console myself by humming Joni Mitchell songs and murmuring, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" Somewhere down the track they will realize that closing us down was a mammoth error but, of course, nobody will be able to admit this. So, instead, all will go quiet for five years and then some bright, young, thrusting exec will come up with an idea. "Hey, I know how we can get more foreign students to come to our uni. Let's offer them English lessons." I don't think I can afford to wait that long so I'd better get to work on polishing up the CV.
Current weight (continuing to creep ever upwards) 78.3 kg
