I'm behind in my Glee viewing, so I may have already missed it, but that sure does look like they're teeing up a performance of Just a Gigolo .

So I finally made my presentation, and my boss tried to refute some of my points (but if *we* don't know the truth, management has failed in its mission to engage us), and the point I stuck together totally on the fly to support my last slide "reward people for identifying risk even if they only raise a problem, no potential solutions" was echoed by the CIO (my hero) who said she tried to push that message down (by rewarding people with Subway gift cards *just* for identifying potential problems) and clearly failed--it was the point people queried me most on. I told them they needed to work extra hard to overcome normal human hesitancy, and once you throw in the stereotypical IT personality, you're less likely to get people engaging for the hell of it.

So that wasn't awful.

My headache is though, and I think I'll just go lie down and cry for a bit, or something.

"reward people for identifying risk even if they only raise a problem, no potential solutions"

Thankfully, since what I am tasked with is finding problems first and foremost, in my immediate work environment, I am appreciated for it. Of course, then it is either try to fix it or get the team on it, but the finding is valued. Although they do try to keep a buffer between me and upper mgmt. Even though when they've not succeeded, upper mgmt appreciates my...uh, blunt honesty. They just want solutions Right NOW, and clearly chafe when we have to tell them it isn't immediately forthcoming.

So, go you, promoting that!

...today was all about fixing old problems (that I thought I'd fixed, but turns out NSM!) and finding new ones. FUN TIMES. I had to have super focus AND the attention span of a gnat.

Congrats on getting through, ita!

...which reminds me, is anyone else weirded out/annoyed by the fact that Facebook now suggests buying a present for anyone who makes a post that gets congratulations in response?

Glad it's done, ita, and it sounds like it went well. Can you take a home day tomorrow?

and the point I stuck together totally on the fly to support my last slide "reward people for identifying risk even if they only raise a problem, no potential solutions

At least one of our clients, we have a quarterly performance metric for number of so called "near miss" reports for id'ing potential safety or performance hazards. If it were less than say 10 (I don't know the actual #), we'd get dinged some of our fee.

I can't remember if I ever told this story here: a couple of years back, my dad decided that he was ready to be done with his job, but he didn't actually want to retire. Instead, he was going to start law school at age 69, and not just for the intellectual challenge -- he wants to go out and practice public-interest law when he gets out. So now they went and put him in the Times. I'm kinda ridiculously proud of him.

I had a Liese AT MY HOUSE! neener neener neener.

It was awesome! I'm just sorry it was short. But I had a msbelle!

I am now back home, where there are none of you, which is sad. But I am happy to be back home. The SO is already working, the freak. I have about the cognitive ability left to microwave a pizza, and that might even be in question.

In my head I was totally going to weed and do laundry when I got home, but yeah, no.

That's very cool, amych!

That's cool, amych! Good for him.

I'm glad my dad got into the Water Board stuff, cause I think it intellectually stimulates him (law and water rights and geology and civic infrastructure, oh my!) when he retired. But I'm also glad he's realized he needs to take it down a notch and resigned as President. Still on the board, just less day to day responsibility. And he's still President NM Academy of Sciences. And for the local natural history museum. So. Down a notch, relatively speaking.