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.

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[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.