Business Trip Excursion Activity
November 28, 2006
Today I tasted full privilege from being in lower middle management, or middle lower management depending on your perspective. I, along with a few others, got to visit a hotel in Osaka and administer level check tests to different hotel staff the entire day. Compared to my usual day at the office, this was like a trip to Disneyland.
I adorned my company pin for the first time ever, put up my best face, and slicked my hair up for this. I was rather surprised that several of the people I met had been in Vancouver. Two of them even studied four years of college. One of them became visibly excited when I told her I was from Vancouver. It was like she had met a celebrity while I just sat there and stared at her rather strong reaction.
This has been one of the most interesting days of work ever. Back there tomorrow too!
Not my fault
November 22, 2006
OK let’s give this whole updating biz another shot. One thing that’s always bugged me about people is that there’s this percentage who can’t own up to their own faults. When approached about any sort of negative feedback they blame external factors. It seems like in their mind they themselves could never be wrong, could never do wrong, and ergo, it’s someone else’s issue.
Jeez it feels like deja vu writing this. I’m sure I’ve written about this before but I’m too lazy to make a quick search through the archives.
The biggest problem with this percentage of people is that it’s not their job or the people around them or their surroundings. It’s them. They generally are their own enemy. Because of this inability to acknowledge self weakness, they isolate themselves from the world. The characters I have in mind now are notorious for being difficult and no one wants to deal with them.
The second biggest problem and this I can only assume is that if I think I’m never wrong, then I assume that I have no need to do anything different and ergo I will never improve. I will continue going along my path because, well, it’s working right? The ones I have in mind will suck, forever, until they realize they need to wake up and smell their ineptitude.
I, not being a hypocrite, will acknowledge that perhaps I am wrong in this view. There’s always the remote possibility that everything I need to pass on to them is not their fault. Even so, if it were me I would at least fathom the notion that I may have done wrong and acknowledge future care to prevent the matter, even if I’m sure nothing was done wrong. But that’s just me being crazy.
Hey it’s back up!
November 19, 2006
Finally my page is back up. The server company did something, or didn’t do something, and let the server get taken over by something. After waiting several days without any reply from tech support, it’s back up. I’m so glad I didn’t write too many updates this month. I only lost that inane update from last week.
Still though, even though I’m glad to see my page back up, I really am at a blank for updates. The main reason why is because I haven’t really done anything interesting these past few months. It really puts a damper on topics to write about. It’s nice to settle into a groove though – nothing bad happens. I’m sure something will happen soon enough.
