August 25, 2006

  • Looking Better

    okay, I've been there a whole week and a half and things are looking much much better at work. Some of the issues that I thought would drive me nuts - well, they still might, but I'm finding my way to handle it.

    One of the things I was most upset about was the seeming lack of organization and underwhelming performance on a project that I walked into the middle of. If I'm going to do something, I want to do it right, or I don't want to waste my time. Yesterday, I saw several decisions made that I believe are going to alleviate some of this, up to and including a decision to put me right smack dab in the middle. I'm not a project manager, but I play one in a certain daydream I've had running for years, and I know that I can bring things to a level I'm comfortable with.

    I talked with my boss because I still haven't heard anything from the bus company about Michael's transportation being scheduled. He told me not to stress on it. What we've worked out is that until the bus situation is resolved, I will come into the office from 9-2 and then I will work from home to finish whatever is on the task list for the day (and he made me promise not to exceed 8 hours a day on AF assignments.)

    I turned in my first assigment yesterday. We are working on answers to questions from the foundation that may or may not be on the verge of funding us to the tune of $5 million. And I was assigned to write a section of our reply. Everyone in the office stopped by to encourage me. Some of our people are fellows at another non-profit with very impressive initials behind their names. And the message from all of them was, "look we ALL do it. We work and work and work and we turn it in and then he comes back and tells us all the ways we need to do it over again."

    So when I turned it in I put ROUGH DRAFT in the subject line, and again in the body to signal that I was willing to rework whatever he needed redone. Last night he sent me the email response to my work ...

    "Terry well done
    Can you complete a similar rundown for _______"

    My next issue will be to have him spell my name right ...

    There is a book out there, my best friend read it last year and I tried to but I'd checked it out from the library and I didn't make it far before I ran out of time, The World is Flat, by Thomas Freidman. My boss is in that book. He's not a huge section of the book, but he is in there. And that's kind of cool.

    Happy Friday to you all. I'm gonna get started on the similar rundown for _____

    MWAH!

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