Longest Day Ever!

My manager, the big kahuna, is having a  year end town hall meeting.  London, Cali, Chicago, Charlotte and NY will be connected via video conference.  He has changed the date and time, MULTIPLE times on me.  Every time he does so, I have to rebook the conference rooms in each location.  Sometimes I just have to change the date/time with the same room...but more often than not, I have to find a totally different room, because the previously booked room is not available at the new time.  With today's change, one of the locations didn't have a room available, so I had to pull rank and kick a team out of the room we need.

This meeting is in two days and we still haven't finalized the agenda.  I put the topics together myself.  Harassed my manager's direct reports for information and I am pretty much telling everyone when they can speak, how long they can speak and I have threatened them (in a nice professional way) to make sure they do not go over the allotted time because this will throw the whole unapproved agenda off.

The biggest problem is my manager.  He says he only needs FIVE MINUTES to give the introduction.  I allotted him ten minutes and he rolled his eyes at me because he swears he wont need that long. But I know him.  I've worked for him for nine years.  Something happens to him when he gets in front of people.  He seems to get diarhea of the mouth and he just keeps going and going and going.

If he takes longer than ten minutes, he is going to completely throw the entire agenda off schedule.  I'm not even going to worry about the inevitable though.  I KNOW it's going to happen.  I'm just going to work on a plan B for when it does happen I guess.
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When I typed the above note, we hadn't finalized much yet, but as of right now (9pm Tuesday), the meeting is set for tomorrow at noon.  If for whatever reason the meeting is changed, i am calling in sick for the rest of the week and taking time off next week too - someone else can take care of logistics. i can NOT keep working on the same shit...it does something to me.  it is counterproductive.  i need new projects or extensions of old projects.  when i take care of something i like to be done with it so i can move on.  this meeting better happen.  that's all.

signed,
the warden

Location Location Location

This realtor just called me about an apartment, I talked to her almost two months ago. The apartment was beautiful...with all the artsy fartsy shit I love - high ceilings, original super deep claw foot tub, original hard wood flooring, original crown molding, mantels and fire place...glass tiles in the bathroom with this art deco sink...all stainless steel appliances (double fridge, microwave, dishwasher, stove) and a washer and dryer. It even had the original glass door knobs (i notice things like that!) and at 1100 square feet, I wasn't too surprised at the $2200 rental amount.  I just had no intention of paying that much. That's more than my condo's mortgage, monthly maintenance, property insurance and monthly property taxes COMBINED. No way I would pay that much to RENT and definitely not for that area. I remember thinking anyone who paid that much money to live up on Sugar Hill was out of their damn mind!!

The apartment itself was worth that much, but you know what they say in real estate...LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!!  The owner over renovated for the area, so I was not surprised to hear the realtor tell me that the owner had lowered the price significantly to $1700.  After years of abuse in the 70's and 80's, that area is seeing some big changes, but it's still not there exactly in a place to command that much rent yet. I told the realtor I already found a place and thanked her for calling.

I wouldnt be surprised to hear the owner had to reduce it again.  This scares me a little bit though.  I'm just hoping I don't run into the same problem when I rent out the condo.

Speaking of renting out the condo...my niece asked if she could rent the place with her boyfriend.  I never laughed so hard lololololol.  Let's see...my niece is all of EIGHTEEN...she doesn't work...doesn't go to school and neither does her boyfriend.  And I would rent them the apartment...because...why??????  I wouldn't!

Somehow she has a section eight voucher though...if it gets hard out here for a pimpette...I'll take what I can get though.