Maszman Speaks!

As I was get­ting out my car in the park­ing garage, I heard fire sirens. Not unusual for down­town, so I only paid min­i­mal atten­tion. But they came down Wood­bury and turned onto Clin­ton, head­ing North. As I walked to my build­ing, I real­ized they were stop­ping in front of it. Then I noticed peo­ple com­ing out of the build­ing as the fire­fight­ers went in. Turns out there was a fire up on the top of the build­ing and an evac­u­a­tion had been called for those who were at work (it was before 7:30 AM).

Since there’s really no place to assem­ble, they move every­one across the street to Wash­ing­ton Square Park. It was nice weather today, so it wasn’t too bad though I wouldn’t want to be stand­ing there in win­ter. Even­tu­ally, they allowed us to go to B&L’s lobby, which has a cof­fee stand, so at least we could sit down and enjoy some cof­fee while we waited. It was over an hour before they let us back in.

Con­sid­er­ing it’s the Fri­day before Labor Day week­end, it was all I could do not to just head home. But I was the only one of my group in so I had to.

Not a good sign, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

It’s never a good sign when you arrive at work at the same time as the fire depart­ment does.

The #1 Rea­son Your Job Sucks (and How to Fix it) looks at the work of Abra­ham Maslow and Fred­er­ick Herzberg and how it applies to your job.

Is it still a news­pa­per if the sto­ries it reports aren’t news?

Do Not Use Until Fur­ther Notice!, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

The powers-that-be here at The Big Com­pany have decided my floor will be one of the test sites for new Cisco VoIP phones. They installed them last night but we can’t use them yet.

They also man­aged to mess up my net wiring in the process but I fig­ured that out and fixed it.

While most of Biloxi, Mis­sis­sippi still hasn’t recov­ered from Kat­rina, you’ll be happy to know the resort and casino and doing just fine. [Salon​.com link]

All I can say is that it’s been two years since Kat­rina and this is sup­posed to be the United States.