When most people use the extra hour in the fall during daylight savings for sleep, I use it to post on my blog. Why you ask? For my peoples.
So my nephew turns 1 year old today. I got an invitation from him for his birthday party. Beside the fact that it appears that my 1 year old nephew can type and somehow use photoshop to make invitations, he has definitely grown a lot. He’s got teeth and the Nowell (expletive)-eating grin (you know it when you see it).
I had the chance to do some recruiting for work back at NU the other week. Holy smokes do people want internships! Kids who don’t even know what my company does want internships. Maybe they confused internships with the internet, because it is the cool thing to do nowadays. I had the chance to visit my old coop job over in Roger’s Park. I was fortunate to be visiting on the day that the annual Meatfest was planned in my old department. Quickly, the story behind meatfest is this:
My previous co-workers worked with this woman engineer. Now…. what?…. don’t roll your eyes at me! Just because she was a woman was not the problem. From all of my learnings, she was technically incompetent. Also I have heard she was a grade A USDA choice (insert degrading term for not nice woman). In any event, when she finally decided to leave the company, the guys in my department decided to have a party for her. Everyone brought their favorite meat containing dish to celebrate all that she is and was. She was a vegetarian.
So every year Meatfest celebrates that time and also the sheer awesomeness of meat. Under advice from a co-worker in Michigan, I bought some proschiutto and melon. Now melon is not meat, but non-meat is allowed if it enhances the flavor or complements meat. A good example of this was when last year Burger King had the meatnormous breakfast sandwich. The egg and cheese bring out the best in the sausage and bacon. So the spread had sausage, pot-stickers (international flavor), ham, barbecue pork, cheese, crackers, salami, pickles, assorted meat juices. my melon dish, the whole nine yards. The only thing that was green was some green tea I was drinking and possibly some parsley.
So I am getting a little bit tired of these Michigan political attacks about how so and so is sending jobs out of Michigan to China and India and Indiana. It seems that the best governor of Michigan is the one who sent the least jobs out of the state. Is this what makes someone a good governor? Political campaigns suck donkey poo. One add is pretty cool though. It morphs one candidate’s face into that of George W Bush’s. This is supposed to be a knock on the candidate, but I’m not sure if that is the case with all people. Most Republicans love the guy and Democrats hate him. I would rather morph my opponent’s face into something like Hitler or Keanu Reeves. Something that unites not divides.
So our small church starts a series on the book of Ecclesiastes today. It will be the best series ever, or the most useless series ever. We will all get drunk and party, or stop eating all together and die. This is funny because I am writing in the same style of the book of Ecclesiastes. Such wit at 2 in the morning!
One final thought. As I have been at work for ~3 months, I’ve noticed how most of the people I work with have career plans. Pretty much everyone wants to move up in the corporate ranks and be supervisors and directors or other ors that call the shots while people like me take the shots. I guess when I think about it, I wonder what people really want out of work when they advance up the corporate ladder. Do people really think they are the best ones for management? Or do they just want to tell people what to do and make money? Why do you have to promote yourself to advance up the ranks? My girlfriend had to read a book entitled “How is your net-working?”. Now besides the hilarious title, she had to read a book on how to socially network to move up in a company. Screwed Up!
The self-promotion status of the workforces might be why women have such a hard time advancing in companies. Networking with men is not as easy for women and can be dangerous. My bottom line is that I question people’s motives for advancing in a company and question whether the people who most actively try to advance in a company are the ones best suited for those jobs. If you try to disagree with me I will call you a money hungry power-monger. My blog my rules sucka.
Detroit lost the World Series last night and I asked my coworkers at dinner whether there would be more or less murders since St. Louis won and Detroit lost. We weren’t sure about that, but thought there may be more manslaughters than murders due to heightened emotional states. So my new home baseball team didn’t win the World Series, but neither did the Cubs!
