No San Diego for me!

[cjsmith]

Today I got to send THE CEO OF MY COMPANY to San Diego in my stead. He will go on Monday, and he will be doing this errand for me because "I am too important where I am". (Hey, HE said it, not me!)

It's a compliment, or something, being so key to the project. But the good part is that I don't have to go to San Diego!

Comments

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a great reason not to go on a trip you didn't want to take in the first place.

I'd call that a pretty nice compliment of your contribution to the company. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It is an EXCELLENT reason not to go! It's also a little stressy; everyone needs a break now and then, and the way it's set up now there's no one who can cover for me. Soon though. We're hiring like mad.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a wonderful situation all around! Congrats, Ms. Really-Is-All-That. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's definitely odd!

I remember sending the VP of Engineering at my previous company out to get me a sandwich once. He was making a big deal of how he shouldn't touch a thing in the lab because he might screw it up, but oh how much he really wished he could help, so I handed him a fiver and sent him to Wendy's. He deserved that. ;-) (He went, too, and cheerfully. Likable guy.)

This current situation came out of a calm, reasoned discussion: if R goes down, CJ can be up here ready to ship him new code at a moment's notice, but if CJ goes down, nobody up here can build code. (Well, our chief architect could once she gets back from vacation.) Plus R doesn't take crap from anybody, and God knows I do, so that's also a benefit. I asked whether R doesn't have other stuff on his plate right now, but our director of engineering said R would call this the most important thing he could work on, so... I guess he's going.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

yay!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

San Diego really is a beautiful city, but of all the times I've been there, only once was not on business. That casts a bit of a pall on a trip!

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Yay for CJ! For not having to go on a trip you don't want to go on, but even more for being considered so valuable that you can't be spared!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I am soooo glad I'm here right now instead of there!