I feel a little vindicated that the project manager had no idea that I was leading the meeting either (as in, it was a last minute decision made outside process) and relieved that they didn't make me re-state the position when the vendor CEO got back on the line. Seriously, there are better ways to submit a vote of confidence for my abilities. I wanted to be out sick today too.
I admit, I expressed my lack of preparation on the call, but I hope I did it with good humour. Seriously. Big bus with big wheels to be tossed under. IT is the last person who should be leading that discussion (business, compliance, risk management are all ahead on the list), and I'm not the right person in IT anyway (CIO, director, manager of production support...all pip me at the post).
Pissed. Extra headache pissed. I need to lower my heart rate and get ready to go into the office.
I use "feb YOU airy" even though it seems wrong.
I didn't know people pronounced it another way. I mean, of course they do, but...still.
There's a little "r" in there. Discreet, polite, refined. But it's there. Come on. How else do we separate ourselves from the people we need to be separate from?
I think I've watched too much Blitz TV. IO9 has a post with golf rules from WWII about how to handle a bombing, and I think it's pretty unremarkable, but I've watched too many shows that make it look like people just brushed shrapnel off their shoulders and went on eating, rather than reacting like hell was raining down from the skies. Work that stiff upper lip, people.
How else do we separate ourselves from the people we need to be separate from?
Dang, ita, you know the answer to this one!
Stabby motions. (Whether you are holding a stabby implement is entirely up to you.)
There are a number of words where the way I pronounce them feels wrong, but the alternative feels like an affectation.
My brain is weird.
I thought it was pronounced Februany (any, five-dollar foor long)?
ITA with Jesse - silent R in February BUT NOT a silent first R in library.
I say "Feb-YOU-airy" but I NEVER say "LIE-berry" or "warsh."
My mom is a well-spoken woman who reads voraciously but CANNOT eradicate "warsh" from her speech. It drives me crazy, but, hey, she's 68. So I'll roll with the "Feb-YOU-airy."
