Monday, July 24, 2006
Exiguous skills
Sometimes configuring things that should have been setup for months, is like swimming upstream, in mud, while wearing combat boots and parachute pants.
Yes, I’m saying it’s really unfasionable, and sort of smelly. Ok, so maybe that’s not the point I’m trying to get across.
Really though, why am I spending hours working on web server log reporting, that I’ve only been asked for once, 3 years ago. Usually, this is the sort of thing people save up until right before review time, so they can drop the “look at my skills” bomb. Maybe if I get a bunch of these duties that should-have-been-done-but-never-were set up, I can drop them all on my boss about 2 weeks out from review time.
That gives me about 8 months, I’m sure I could slide in a power point depicting how awesome I am too.
I think I’m getting the hang of the self promotion game that is the business world...and myspace. If it’s not about me, it’s not worth reading. That’s the way, uh huh, we blog it.
Blog, what a stupid word. I’m going to find the schmuck that started calling it a Blog and beat them silly. Maybe I’ll make a recording of it, and Podcast it. Podcast?! Seriously, who the hell is making these up?