Thursday, October 22, 2009

Lying

I've made an interesting self-observation at work this week.

I'm a terrible liar.

Not in the sense that I can't lie when I need to, because I'm pretty sure I could if the situation called for it. I mean that if someone asks me a question, I'm incredibly honest, almost to a fault.

I've noticed that others tend to "massage the truth," either to lessen the impact of negative news or for self-preservation. Well, that's not me. If someone made a mistake, even if it's me, I'll say it - even if others would rather go with the "we were being conservative" explanation.

I'm not sure if being able to lie more effectively is something that comes with more experience or if it's a personality thing, but my guess is that it's the latter since I have been told numerous times that I need to get better at lying (by my parents, no less!).

Friday, October 02, 2009

Cubes in the Kitchen!

Apparently, there's no more empty cubes left in our building, but we have contractors coming in next week from India and they have no place to sit.

So where to put the new cubes? The kitchen, of course!

Well, not the kitchen, but the break room. So when people are warming up their food or taking a coffee break, or even having lunch at one of the tables, there will be people trying to work just a few feet away. One of the cubes is not even 5 feet away from the TV which is on all day.

I do not envy them. They probably have no idea of their working conditions.