People may not like the changes, but they'll hate having their illusion completely blown worse.

This.

The communication thing is crucial when a goodly portion of your customer base are crazy internet people who were shoved in lockers, have limited social skills, and have weird entitlement issues, anyway.

And be this I mean fandom. But not any of ours. Of course. We're all totally centered.

Interrupting to say: Thank you again for the ~ma! I just got off the phone with the Medium Head Honcho Person who interviewed me today, and I have a follow-up interview with the Big Giant Head Honcho Person (who apparently is actually very humble and sweet) tomorrow at 1.

Yay, JZ! Big Giant Heads good! If the interview doesn't go well, you can always play Mr. Potatohead with 'em.

Or crazy public radio people! The call letters of the station are WYPR, promoted as Your Public Radio. OMG the OUTRAGE when they fired Marc Steiner, who was had a public hand in getting the station under independent management and was a popular host and local advocate (and I admit, I share it, but more because man, how stupid the management was in how they handled it. And I think it was a poor decision to get rid of him at all, but whatever, that's their call.) And then they just kept compounding it, publicly dismissing the sentiments at a meeting of the public advisory board where something like 300 people showed, cancelling/moving a board meeting. They ended up postponing a pledge drive, for crying out loud. They are totally in oh fuck! mode and that could have been so much more easily avoided.

Go JZ!!!

ION, I'm done with the Winter quarter!

YAY JZ

YAY GC!!

That's awesome, JZ! And so fast!

There is so much insanity going on at my job, I don't even know. I was out of the office today, and just spend 45 minutes on the phone with a coworker. Not only is there craziness, there is a whole lot of Not Good.

Oooh, yikes Jesse. It is too late for that kind of thing!

You know what other consumer thing happened today that made me happy (Other than Starbucks realizing their coffee tastes like crap)? My laptop started doing something weird (the screen went black and started flashing). Since it's now like four years old, I worried that it was going to give up the ghost. I backed up my data like a good girl, but I just bought a new hard drive! I don't need to buy a new laptop right now! But I figured, well, this weird thing started happening when I got this new software. So I motored over to the software website, and in fact, it is a weird Vista driver thing and here is a link to fix it! That was totally easy and consumer friendly! Yay Elmsoft!

She called me from home because it is Not Safe to talk at the office....