Ponderosity
Sep. 24th, 2003 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy manager, today, started talking about 2004 and how things are likely to change and how we will likely handle them. She's in charge of corporate communication. I'm in charge of marketing communications and we're it for the department. She's thinking we're going to need at least another person so she told me this morning that I need to be thinking about what bits and pieces of my job I want to keep and which ones I want to dump on er, share with a new person.
Interesting to think about. I basically do:
- all 'prettying' (editing of words, fixing of graphics, policing of branding) of stuff - collateral, presentations, anything that might go out to a customer.
- all web work - internal website, external website
- event coordinating
- giveaway, design, ordering, inventory
I think I'm willing to give away the event crap. That's always fraught with peril and a field of cow pies.
I think I'll keep the rest.
But I need to chew on it. It's the kind of thing that is in the pencil version of planning. If I can come up with a solid scheme , I can probably sell it cause no one else has any product at all. At the very least, I need to make sure I know what I want if anyone asks.
Maybe I should look around and see if anyone else has a part of a job I want... hmmmm
Meanwhile, there are new jobs popping up all over this neighborhood. Cray Computers has had a little shop here in Seattle, across the street actually, for a while. I have no clue what they do there but I do know they now have about 1/2 or fewer employees than they used to. But, today I discovered they are hiring like mad. Their website lists probably 15 job openings in these little offices right across the street.
The mailman says that there are more than a few businesses actively looking for employees in this very neighborhood. I like the sound of that!
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Date: 2003-09-24 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-24 04:16 pm (UTC)But what my job is now is not really that. It's coordinating our part in someone else's event which is usually a mess. The event is always far away from here. We send people - not me.
I have to povide them with everything I think they might need which no one knows until they actually get there when it's too late to get it right. And then get all the stuff back which is even more of a headache.
Something unforeseen always goes wrong and it's always a bitch and a half. If the entire effort is 100%, I generally spend 90% of that time in cleanup which no one gives a shit about.
Right now I'm spending about a half hour a day trying to find the signs that the hotel in Las Vegas lost. Either find my fucking signs that I have the proof you signed for or reimburse me the cost.
The guys who did the show were pissed because our booth only had the crappy old signs that I threw in at the last minute for a reason I cannot even remember now.
It the kind of task that is just designed for failure.
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Date: 2003-09-24 04:17 pm (UTC)Event planning; cray
Date: 2003-09-24 05:30 pm (UTC)I think it's a pretty thankless job. If things are going hoopy, people wonder what the hell you do all day. ANd when they don't, which is usually the case, you spend a lot of time screaming at people.
> Cray
I'd be very cautious about them. "Cray", the original manufacturer of supercomputers, was acquired by SGI in 1996. Tera Computer, a local company, bought the name and three lines of supercomputers in 2000. (You can look this up on SGI's web site, www.sgi.com) Cray/Tera has made some questionable decisions. (Like: basing their new machine on the Alpha chip. There's only one manufacturer of the optimized compilers they need, and the chip itself was announced discontinued by Compaq in favor of Intel's Itanium.)
That being said, there are/were some really cool theorists who worked there, several from my alma mata.
-- jim
(still cracking up at your Fry's experience ;_)
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Date: 2003-09-24 05:14 pm (UTC)