Back up that train, folks

Today is a staff meeting. I should amend that: it's a Staff Meeting. The kind that requires capitalization, because it's not a normal staff meeting but one that involves much importance (meaning restructuring).

There was a company audit a month or so ago. The whole purpose of the audit was to see where we operate inefficiently and how to create more billable hours. (Primarily, this would be convincing the creative director that spending 14 hours on a job that we can only bill for 10 is not worth it.)

One of the head partners stopped me this morning to give me a heads up about the restructuring. Giving me a heads up, though, does not bode well. Sure enough, the heads up was because I will be taking on new business responsibilities, and they didn't want me surprised. Fair enough. Seems they haven't worked out the details on that one yet and plan on me, the new business guy, and the partner, sitting down and hammering out the details of what I'll be doing.

The big thing is, because new business involves phone calls (seriously, no one knows how much I'm ready to cry right now over the phone call portion), that means putting the phones onto a system mode for a designated portion of time each day. My whole security of knowing I won't be required to make cold calls to perfect strangers and sell them crap...that just went out the window.

I'm not a salesperson. This could be ugly.

On the other hand, it may be the impetus to get me to a new job. *tries not to cry*

And I want to know, if I'm getting *another* title (I currently have two), does that mean more money?

Cat Update

Remember the bit about my mother's cat? That she got a stroller for?

Here's a reminder.

Well, mom and dad took Rascal for a walk again on Sunday. Rascal is really loving this stroller thing. As soon as they put him in it he started purring. And during the half hour walk he did quite a bit of talking as well, telling the world how much he liked riding about outside.

My dad, thinking the pictures funny (which really, they are) decided to send a picture of Rascal in the stroller to a local news station. See, our local FOX affiliate has a segment called Roy's Folks. Roy talks to good old folks with unusual hobbies or neat stories. On the morning show he also shows pictures of cute kids or cute pets. (On my 21st birthday they were going to show my baby picture. Thanks to a file issue, it didn't happen. Thank god.) My dad was submitting Rascal's picture for the cute pet portion.

What happened instead is that the producer of Roy's Folks emailed my dad back wanting details on the stroller for a possible story. *snicker* The laughter is still going on over this. We're waiting to see what happens, if Rascal actually makes the news. Because really, this is so dang funny.

Oh yeah

I know I'm going to Wendy's this weekend.

Wendy's gives away Frosty's this weekend

Heck yeah! I want a free Frosty!