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This is going to be a very angry, very vulgar post. Feint of heart need not read on

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Song of the day:
Feelin’ Way Too Damn Good – Nickelback

Excerpt:
Something’s gotta go wrong
‘Cause I’m Feeling Way Too Damn Good

Except, it already went wrong. All the work I did over the weekend was completely overwritten and lost forever by a simple misclick. I drug files from my laptop to my desktop instead of the other way around. Since I work on my desktop when doing important stuff at home, the stuff on my laptop was from Friday. So much for showing initiative and getting stuff done over the weekend to please my boss.

And I was in a good mood this morning, too. >_< Super suck fest.

Had an hour long conference call today with the entire technical crew (mostly from India) from the company we’re going to be working with, that my epiphany was related to. My idea was, as expected, well received, and will (of course) be used as our strategy for moving forward as a team. They modified one portion of it to accommodate their systems, but the concept is still entirely mine. I rock.

I just had a genius moment superb enough to more than make up for all the slacking off I did this week.

I even impressed the guy who’s job it is to come up with the ideas to solve what my idea solved. In all honesty, it’s fucking brilliant. I’ve impressed myself.

How to completely waste my time and make a fool of yourself:
Step 1: Come to Rochester and meet with me and my boss about the product you’re trying to sell to us, but not be capable of displaying any examples of your product, or explaining any details about the questions we have. — Time wasted: 2 hours
Step 2: Schedule a web-based meeting to address all of the details and concerns that you were completely unable to even discuss at our first meeting. — Time wasted trying to find an acceptable meeting time: 1 hour
Step 3: Realize that the excessive planning you put into scheduling a meeting was all for naught, and reschedule the meeting to a completely different time. Twice. — Time wasted: 2 hours
Step 4: Host the web meeting and conference call that connects 6 people from 5 different places, but have nothing prepared to talk about, or any prepared flow for the meeting. Then proceed to “demonstrate” your product to us, without answering any of our questions or concerns from the first meeting. Dodge every question with, “well we’ll need to set up another meeting to discuss those details” as your default answer. — Time wasted: 1.5 hours
Step 5: Proceed to Step 2.

Myself, my boss, his boss, and the VP of Sales for the entire Science division of this nationwide corporation were, needless to say, unimpressed. The entire point of this meeting was to answer our questions and concerns and show us the solutions they were going to provide us. None of the above were addressed.

Running count –
Deal-breaker concerns voiced (by myself): 3
Deal-breaker concerns addressed: 0
Meetings that have not answered any of my questions: 2

Patience for stupidity: 0

I am not amused.

up early, check
shower, check
shave, check
dress decently, check
at work by 8:20 for a meeting, check
spill coffee ALL over myself by 8:45, check

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