Friday, January 06, 2006

I would like to peek into this person's brain...

A friend of mine (I will call her "Belle*", so as not to unduly embarrass anyone), just relocated her office to another part of the massive Intel Folsom campus. She packed up everything that had to go to the new location, and the office was moved yesterday while she worked from home (I had to use a rolling chair and pile everything on top of it when I moved -- geez!).

This morning she went to her new office and discovered some stuff missing. Turns out her Administrative Assistant (yeah, the clerk!) decided Belle apparently had too much stuff and proceeded to go thru the boxes and remove things which Belle didn't need. When Belle told the assistant she wanted her stuff, the assistant said "Well, you'd better go get it then!" It is not a short walk to the old office, literally about a 1/2 mile of trudging. Then back.

Kudos to Belle for not placing a roundhouse kick upside the assistant's head. I cannot believe Belle didn't call her out on that and make the assistant go get the box. Belle, you are a better person than I.

As for the Assistant, I would like to know what analytical process or brainstorm of an idea would go thru your brain that would make you think to rifle thru your boss' packed stuff and decide what should and shouldn't be moved? Not something I usually see in a job description. Does this fall under the category of efficiency or dementia?

* – French for beautiful

1 Comments:

Blogger kenny r said...

Clearly it's not efficiency, since that is not necessarily associated with getting into other peoples business (plus it actually caused a degree of inefficiency for "Belle"). I don't think it's the second description either, since that is a car a lot of "senior" persons drive; the Oldsmobile Dimensia. Ha! Poor product naming!* Does sound insane though.

*I am allowed to make jokes that some might consider offensive to people with actual dementia since I deal frequently with a person who possibly has mild dimentia, and it doesn't offend me or that person, so what's the big wup?

January 18, 2006 5:34 PM  

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