Office Luncheon

[bjarvis]

The Unix Support team working in my data center for my business group had a lunch date booked at management's behest for several weeks now. Our manager is typically pretty good about taking small teams out for a luncheon from time to time to chat in a casual atmosphere. I missed the last one because I was at the IAGSDC convention in California that time, so I was looking forward to this opportunity to have a nice meal on the company's dime.

At 10 AM, my manager dropped by my cube to ask me to select a restaurant, make reservations for noon, print up directions and send pages & e-mails to the other 8 people who would be joining us.

WTF?!

I'm pretty sure I'm still a Unix Administrator and not the office social director and/or party planner. At the very least, if I had known I was going to be given the task, I would have started shopping around last week for a more varied menu to ensure our vegetarian/vegan crowd would have at least as much variety as our carnivorous team members.

The good news is that everyone seems to be happy with the restaurant I did select (on a friend's suggestion) and I was able to circulate copies of their menu & directions in e-mail and quickly arrange carpooling before 11:30 AM. The bad news is that now that several people have raved about how quickly I could put it together, I fear I may be asked to do it again.

Shoulda sent 'em all to McDonald's.

Comments

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

You dey beyatch now!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tell me about it. The obvious solution is to intentionally sabotage the effort so that I'm not sucked into future incarnations of it, but I'd rather chew my own foot off than do a task badly, even if the task really sucks.

I think I'll try to delegate the task to some other minion when/if it happens again.