Great new phrase

All of you know I am at a new job.  I am intermittently switching between really busy and I know that I will be really busy soon and having no idea what to do at the moment.  I seem to have something figured out and then I realize that I don't know how to proceed and scrap it all. So, I decided to write a new social media overview and toolkit for the global markets.  Since social networks are dominant in every country, I thought it would be a great place to start.  That way, the marketers in Eastern Europe will know how to leverage Friendster with reckless abandon.  Does any actually use Friendster any more.  To me, Friendster is one of those networks that everyone has heard of and that everyone had a "friend" that used it, but no one claims to actually have used it in their life.  It is almost this myth of "back in my day, we had Friendster as our social network."  Granted, those people are the dinosaurs in our industry and are looking for places to cash their stock options in pets.com and reflect.com.  So, anyway, I decided that I needed to refresh myself on some of this and I go to navigate to Facebook.com.  Yeah, I am blocked.  I had this problem at Alberto also.  So I talk with IT.  Yeah, they tell me that no one has special access.  I try to tell them that this is what I do for a living.  They politely inform me that this is what they do for a living.  So as to not burn any bridges, I let them know that I wasn't fond of social networking for the company anyway and that I always thought that TV was the way to go.  He looked at me kind of odd and asked if there was any other questions he could answer.  I ask him if he knows a good place to buy a new belt.  He informs me that there is a Nordstrom right down the street.  I thank him and casually tell him that my last belt couldn't handle my weight last night when I tried to hang myself due to stupid people.  He walked out of my office.  I don't think I made a new friend.  As he was walking out I asked him if he was on Facebook because I would like to be his friend.  He just kept walking.  

So my new phrase went something like this...  One guy I was working with was trying to avoid another.  The second guy standing there was deliberating how to avoid this meeting and how to handle a potentially explosive situation.  So he tells the other guy to "email bail" on him.  He said then you don't have to talk to him and you can avoid the situation.  Very passive aggressive if you ask me, and I like that.  But I thought it was a great phrase.  I am going to try to incorporate that into more conversations.  I think I will run it by my grandpa first.  He always likes to be in the know and he gets a kick out of technology talk like that.  He always tells me to just email it to him.  He thinks its funny.  I have to agree.  He has lived in the same house for 67 years, married for 65 years, and still doesn't have call waiting.  In fact, he didn't even have cable until this Christmas.  I couldn't take being over there any more and missing cubs games and things like that so Kacey and I bought it for them for Christmas.  The highlight of the gift came a week or two later.  They found polka hour on cable every Saturday night.  In fact, once they told me and Kacey about it, we have been hooked.  Nationwide country of the best that polka has to offer.  Don't mock it until you try it.

So, thank you to everyone that has complimented this blog to me in emails.  I am flattered that anyone would read even a second entry that I have written has come to be a pleasant surprise.  Thanks to everyone except my sister.  She writes, "I couldn't sleep so I read your blog" and "at least it was more interesting than what was going on in my belly".  Now before anyone jumps to jokes about gas and/or bowel irritation.  She is pregnant.  But I pour my soul into this blog and it is just slightly more interesting that "what was going on in her belly"????  K - you are killing my ego!!!  No, just joking.  I have fun writing this and will continue to do so and have some fun with it.  I have about 5 stories a day from my new job, but I would kind of like to stay there for a little while, so i have to refrain from saying anything.  Who knows who reads this and I don't want to burn bridges already.  I have to say, just like at Alberto, there are some absolutely great people that I have already met, and some that have left me scratching my head.  Maybe, I will change the context, names, and companies and tell the stories.  Believe me, they are better than any of the stories I have written about already!!  Let me think on this one and I will try to figure out a way to pass them on without giving away where they came from.  Great to hear from everyone at Alberto today.  Except for the sad soul who sent me work to comment on.  Somebody needs to tell this person i don't work there any more.  I will give my 2 cents, but maybe Alberto should think about hiring someone to replace me.  Wait until this person gets my consulting bill for the work.  

Well, Until tomorrow....