The Month That Was

These are the reasons why I failed to update you my dear blogspot. Excuses!Excuses!

There was too much drama in the office last month, even by my drama queen standards.

The Major Project that I have been working on since I got there was called off. This time for good, it looks like. Sigh.

I came up with yet another controversial document against Somebody Powerful, and as expected, was called in by the bosses and owners right the following day. No matter - I'm standing by the integrity of my decision.

On the bright side, I found out that one of the Big Boss called me 'so responsive and conscientious' in an email I wasn't even copied in. Which should mean she wasn't just being showbiz about it, right?

Another Big Boss surprisingly agreed with me on these issues we're facing in Another Thorny Project. It is definitely An Event when this particular boss agrees with me.

Also, this executive who has been pissing me off big time for a couple of weeks now suddenly started behaving. I guess My Strong Allies put some sense and The Fear of Unemployment into her.

And The Kind Boss emailed me on his way to the airport to thank me 'for being so tremendously helpful and responsive since the day you set foot in the office'. Owww. (It's not that I've been working so hard and suddenly transformed into Miss Eager to Please. The only reason these people are being so generous with their praises is that the former GC had Major, Major Issues about turn-around time and the quality of her output. Anyone with half a brain would have smelled good after her.)



We also launched our Most Scathing Ads Ever against this conglomerate that has been bullying us all year. Team Zaccheus finally learns to fight back, tho it was still tame and not nearly feisty enough by my standards. As a result, we have two hearings at the Ad Standards Council this week. I'd normally rather stay in the office and pretend to be busy, but this time I'm actually all psyched up for a showdown.

Of course, starbucks boss has remained my compass and the paragon of sense and ethics when everything else is descending into madness. He easily gets my point and nods within the first three sentences into my long-winded arguments. He listens to all my angst and goes out of his way to encourage me even if he must have a lot of disappointments on his own. He even admitted to making a bad call about this person, and I was like, you don't have to apologize to me, you only lead this department. He is, over all, so easy to love.

It's still definitely a happy place, dramas and all.