Have a Day

So, here's the thing... I think all life derived from an unfortunate bout that God had with a bad sushi bar.

Basically, you are given some pretty awesome natural resources but, because you are placed in a potentially toxic environment, you are given choices that often lead to spending a long time in rooms with porcelain fixtures. The best that you can really hope for is to learn from the bad mistakes and to find (and carry) some decent reading material for when you make bad ones.

So here I sit...

It was looking like it was going to be a long day. It never bodes well when you return to your cubicle to find someone else (someone you have never met before) sitting there.

The first thing i did was to check the name plate (still my name there) and do a quick reality check... Seems that my department had acquired an intern and since the unit was not expecting me back from the last business trip that early, they had placed this young kid there. Okay, crisis averted but, first problem/question... How do we resolve the seating issue?

The next few minutes, made the first problem even more complex. It seems that the cyber security folks had tracked down the evidence of a Trojan virus to my cubicle. As I was searching the halls for my supervisor, I ran into the security folks who promptly confiscated my laptop. I tried to explain to these wonder kids that I had not even attached my computer to their network yet that day (and that they could/should be seeking out the young intern) but, that wisdom fell on deaf ears.

So, I was asked to accompany the security folks down to their little penalty box while they embarked on a proctology exam of my laptop while I waited on the bench outside the office (visions of sitting outside the principal's office flashed through my brain) I tried again to explain why I was pretty sure that they should be seeking out the new intern but, again this was discounted by the security analyst that "was handling my case."

After about forty five minutes, they had come to the conclusion that the source of this identified virus threat was not my laptop and they released me (to go where?). I decided that since they had been such attentive investigators, I didn't bring up the intern anymore...

I proceeded to (again) seek out my supervisor to attempt to address the seating issue and eventually was told that he left for the day. I then found a conference room and decided to squat there for the balance of the afternoon.

I didn't manage to get a whole lot done but, justified that with the fact that i had been dealing with the other issues. I left that afternoon amidst hearing about this virus threat that is going around the IT department... Gee, I said, I hadn't heard anything about that...

I left for the day and proceeded onto my all too familiar commute home. After merging onto the NYS Thruway, I looked into my rear view mirror to see the flashing lights of the state trooper who was about to be making my acquaintance to the tune of a $100 dollar fine for speeding.

I got home and asked the wife what we were having for supper and she told me that she thought we could go out and try that new sushi bar...