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Backwards Day

Wow. Today was my monthly product development meeting. We only get 12 per year, so they're kind of important. Today is when I tell the Prez and all the VPs what I've been up to this past month, and if things are going well in my little management world or if they're doing shitty.

Usually, it isn't a good meeting. Politics and all. There's always an asshole who throws a grenade into the discussion, usually in the form of a cowardly little "... eh... let me play devil's advocate here for a second" or whatever. Why? because it's easier to shoot shit down than to actually try and make something happen. (That would take work.)

It's hard to sell folks who don't know what an iPod is on cool new products, even if they could make them gazillions of dollars.

Some people look to the future, and some look to the past.

But today wasn't bad. And that's just weird.

My boss - who had been away for about six months - was a bit nervous about it, I think. She came into my office three times in two days to make sure that I had my shit together for this, bringing her visits to a total of five in the year and a half that I've been in the new digs.

"You're ready for Tuesday?"

_ I'm always ready for Tuesday. *smirk*

But today, the engineering secretary printed the wrong notes for the meeting, so when I got there, I had nothing to fall back on. Not cool.

But I'm starting to think that I work better that way. No net. No notes. No bullshit structure. I actually had fun in that meeting today because I completely didn't give a shit and just winged it.

It was awesome.

No grenades. No devil's advocates. Not a single frown. Everyone listened. Everyone nodded. Everyone approved. Jokes were cracked. People got excited. My boss even winked her approval at me.

WTF?!

This isn't right. I'm supposed to be the asshole. I'm not supposed to be the shizzle.

It's freaking me out.

posted by oOo @ 02:17