Odd Phone Call

[fauxklore]

I was procrastinating on writing my monthly report when I got a phone call from my corporate secretary. When I answered, she said, "oh, good, you're alive. We haven't heard from you for a while so were worried."

Uh, I sent my corporate boss an email yesterday afternoon. I'd been in meetings most of the rest of the week. Another person from my company saw me at a meeting on Tuesday and I talked to yet another on the phone yesterday.

I admit to having commented to several people that a particular project was sucking up not only my time but my will to live. And it's nice to know that somebody would be looking for me if I were abducted by aliens. But I thought they'd wait more than about 16 or so hours before sending out the search parties.

By the way, I'm convinced that I am in no danger at all of being marooned on a desert island because no matter where I go, no matter how remote, no matter how isolated, I know that somehow the MIT Alumni Association will track me down and ask for money.

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Uhh, don't laugh. We once had someone in the Columbia office who just disappeared. At another company I was at, someone committed suicide (no, not the ranch).

[fauxklore]

Oh, I know about people disappearing. When I was physically working in circle-A offices, the rule of thumb was that if a manager hadn't heard from somebody by 9:30 a.m. they were supposed to call.

But I work in a customer facility day to day and I go by the company mothership about once every couple of weeks. So it's a rather different situation.

[kaasirpent]

By the way, I'm convinced that I am in no danger at all of being marooned on a desert island because no matter where I go, no matter how remote, no matter how isolated, I know that somehow the MIT Alumni Association will track me down and ask for money.

Always take a deck of cards with you, on your person. If your plane crashes or you find yourself stranded miles from civilization, calmly and quietly take out your deck of cards. Lay out a solitaire game. Within minutes someone will come along and say, "Oh, put the red Jack on the black Queen!"