Just be patient.

I drove into the office because I have a meeting at 3:30 and I did not want to risk and problems because I would have had to leave earlier due to having to take public transit across town. I am just going to keep my head down and make as few waves as possible until this period of high anxiety passes. Tomorrow morning at 9:00 I am meeting with the State wide Area Managers meeting for a State office and I will be using the van again for that meeting. So I am already becoming hyper-vigilant as to covering my butt. Now, maybe I am just whistling in the dark but I know systems and when something like the “Memo” comes down there is an immediate change but also following the change there is an almost immediate regression back to the status quo, slow almost imperceptible at first but an eventual return to status. Now, true things may not return to exactly how things were and there maybe some permanent change in the direction of the manifesto but by in large things stay the same.

My theory is that people are lazy for the most part—even though when in power these folks want to see change, bring about change but few have the physical and mental stamina to see this change through to the point of incorporation. Just like parents. Parents always hate things as things are and seem to always seeking change (many times at the expense of the kids) like say watching TV after 9:00 PM on a school night. Now, the parent has to be home after such an edict to enforce it or the parent HAS to be the one who at 9:00 gets him/her self from the EX chair and turn off the system, many times battling family members. Eventually the parent just is worn down and slippage to the status quo begins.

Actually as I have reread the memo—there is nothing in the memo that we are not already doing except the office check out and check in stuff. I have been in other regimes where this was the policy and have done OK. Right now, there is not even a system set up to even check out on unless one just leaves message with the front desk folks—and I usually do this anyway. Other area of the memo have little to do with me (like going to the district office) I NEVER GO THERE AND NEVER WANT TO. The district office is evil always has been nothing but bad karma there. So this is a non issue.

Am I too focused on the changes at the office…do you all want me to move on to new areas of concern? I will try to let this go but I am afraid this whole things is just boiling up way too much stuff to write about. I will try to get some more images up on the blog and try to cover some new territory. Just be patient and we will all get over this bump in the road.