OK, so it’s afternoon now…I’ve been jotting this down all morning while working.
Interesting morning so far. The Balance Sheet Metrics package (well, about half of it) showed up in my inbox this morning. I had so hoped it wouldn’t get here before I left. It’s already laden with issues - whoever sent it had to send it out THREE times… No - wait - make that FOUR times.
Of course, we’re having the same issues as last month with the financial data that has been “assigned” to us to explain simply isn’t ours. (On all four versions that have been sent this morning) And there “isn’t anything they can do about it” until Monday. Oh, and they forgot to send the actual spreadsheet that I am supposed to fill out and send back to them.
Well, they’ve finally gotten me the “official” spreadsheet that has to be turned in, with all the wrong numbers still, so I’ve replaced them with numbers I like better. So, that is what I’ll explain and turned back into corporate with the note of “send this to the new guy next month.”
I have also just realized that it is due next Wednesday - my last day. Would it be really wrong to wait and send it about 5 minutes before I leave? (Yes, I am still harboring a touch of annoyance from this thing last month. Repeatedly asked for guidance/assistance, was told no one could help, then later was told that we’d done it wrong.)
I’ve also talked to a couple more people that know folks at the new company. One gal’s mom works there and *loves* it, the other person’s friend worked there for about 12 years and only left to start his own business. (The mom had actually had a position w/ them before, the travel in that job wore her down, she went elsewhere for a while, and now is *back* in a different, no travel job.) Good to hear stuff like that.
Bititi, who was born on Mother’s Day, walks around with her mother, Twiga, in the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2003. Bititi, which means ‘Strong Lady’ in Swahili, was born on Sunday, May 11, 2003, and measured 5 feet, 9 inches and weighed in at about 175 pounds at birth. Bititi was the third calf born to Twiga. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030514/168/4285c.html
A blue tit feeding its brood of young in a fully furnished bird box. An Internet site in Norway is offering a bit of reality TV, in the form of the daily life of the birds in their fully furnished nest.(AFP/File/Sten Magne Klann)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030514/241/423om.html
France’s green groups sent up a collective howl after a parliamentary panel recommended that Alpine sheep farmers be allowed to shoot wolves that attack their flocks.(AFP-EPA/File/Robert Ghement)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030514/241/427hw.html
Sai Mai, a 26-month-old female tiger, plays with baby pigs at a zoo in Chonburi province, 50 miles east of Bangkok, May 7, 2003. The Royal Bengali tigress was born in captivity and breast-fed by a female pig for four months after her birth. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
A polar bear cub nuzzles its mother in Moscow’s zoo, April 24, 2003. Two polar bear cubs were born in December and started playing in the open as the weather warmed. (Adlan Khasanov/Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030424/161/3vzil.html
Trenton Thunder team mascot ‘Chase the Golden Thunder’ retrieves Derek Jeter (news)’s bat after Jeter hit a single against the New Haven Ravens at Waterfront Park in Trenton, N.J. Sunday, May 11, 2003. Jeter played his final rehab game for the Thunder and will return the Yankees on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030511/168/415fj.html
Well, I’m getting a bit of the munchies, must mean it’s time for lunch.
