Happy 2009!!!

 I got to work about 8:40 or so and opened my email to see my boss had called a 8:00 meeting- rats!  I sent a reply that I had been working on something and just read the email..OOPS. Although I have been complaining that the email is wacky since they moved my home drive from the server at headquarters to the worksite server (which I spec'd, authorized the order, and oversaw the installation of thank you...as part of a $236,000 infrastructure build I supervised

So I had to zoom back over to HQ, smooth ruffled feathers, and review a stupid multipage excel workbook naming all the business crtical systems we have...fun..As my office there is on the front of the building, basically over the enterway 4 floors below, I started noticing the flow of people out of the building at 2. I joined them at 3, to go back to the worksite, and in the elevator a guy started a conversation about New Year and all, and said he was glad the executives had decided to let people go home early and all....WHAT? Nobody told me.

The division I am working for, as their IT project person assigned from HQI T Division, I was a little disappointed that all the management at the division had decided to take a vacation day today and Friday...essentially leaving me as the highest "ranking" person at the facility I am working at. Yet I have no authority to tell people to go home, yet they all think I do...so I did. I said finsih up what you are doinng and go home; freinds and family are important..see you next year. It was a few minutes after that when it occurred to me that the security guard and I were the only ones still there, and he had to be...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!