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kaitouLast week my boss said, "Set us up a meeting with company X!" So I dutifully e-mailed J. Doe at X Co. (I only have his e-mail and phone number in my inherited file, no addresses or titles...this is important later) and set up a meeting. Today came the meeting and good little cog that I am, I went into work all green and puffy. "Where is X Co.?" "It's in Springfield...remember? It's right next to Y Co." So I found the X co address in Springfield and printed out a map.
The party of four people going to X Co turned into seven. And instead of sticking everyone in the back of the Tundra, we decided to go in two cards. My boss said that our car would leave early to get gas. Except that once we started, we realized he actually had a full tank, and someone had filled it earlier in the day. (It's a company car.) So we get to X. Co a half hour early. Upright citizens that we are, we loitered in front of a gas station like Jay & Silent Bob while my boss kept buying scratch off tickets.
"If we win, we can have a good lunch!!"
In the end he spent $6 and won $2. Which is really not too bad for the lottery.
We then meandered on to X Co. about 1 minute behind the second car. Then we found out that J. Doe does not work at the Springfield plant. He works at the Urbana plant, about 40 minutes away. There is a second plant? Wha? Damn! So I call J. Doe and apologize and tell him that we're on our way. When I hang up I find out that I'm not going to X Co. after all. I'm going back to work with my boss and the Sales Manager because we have a meeting at 2. Well, ok.
Except then we don't go back, we end up going to Y Co. to visit instead. Y Co. are awesome suppliers and always give us good product, so I totally didn't mind. We visited for awhile, and got back just in time for our 2:00 meeting...with....the other sales guy. Why couldn't we change the time and go to X Co? I don't know.
So in short, today was odd...I'm still not quite sure if sending everyone off to the wrong plant is my fault or not...but not really bad, and I hardly had to do anything constructive all day. I win!
The party of four people going to X Co turned into seven. And instead of sticking everyone in the back of the Tundra, we decided to go in two cards. My boss said that our car would leave early to get gas. Except that once we started, we realized he actually had a full tank, and someone had filled it earlier in the day. (It's a company car.) So we get to X. Co a half hour early. Upright citizens that we are, we loitered in front of a gas station like Jay & Silent Bob while my boss kept buying scratch off tickets.
"If we win, we can have a good lunch!!"
In the end he spent $6 and won $2. Which is really not too bad for the lottery.
We then meandered on to X Co. about 1 minute behind the second car. Then we found out that J. Doe does not work at the Springfield plant. He works at the Urbana plant, about 40 minutes away. There is a second plant? Wha? Damn! So I call J. Doe and apologize and tell him that we're on our way. When I hang up I find out that I'm not going to X Co. after all. I'm going back to work with my boss and the Sales Manager because we have a meeting at 2. Well, ok.
Except then we don't go back, we end up going to Y Co. to visit instead. Y Co. are awesome suppliers and always give us good product, so I totally didn't mind. We visited for awhile, and got back just in time for our 2:00 meeting...with....the other sales guy. Why couldn't we change the time and go to X Co? I don't know.
So in short, today was odd...I'm still not quite sure if sending everyone off to the wrong plant is my fault or not...but not really bad, and I hardly had to do anything constructive all day. I win!
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Date: 2007-10-03 01:03 pm (UTC)