I've been in meetings all morning. I have now jumped from coding to
design and analysis. Basically that means I sit in rooms and talk about
what I am going to do. Then I get to make pretty diagrams to show
everyone. I also have a meeting with my financial advisor today. I remember when I first
got him. I was working at that networking company and we had just tried
to get the upper management fired and had pretty much succeeded. I was
in the team that did it so I didn't have to worry about my job, but the
rest of office all the way up to CEO was worried. The problem was that
the other teams were so slow that nothing got delivered on time and it
would've affected the whole company. So we all got together and were in
cahoots with the parent company to enact change from the bottom up. The
stress levels at that office got so bad the parent company had to send
an HR person from California in to talk about everyone's feeling. We all
got sheets of paper with crayon's and got to write our concerns on the
sheet of paper and then the office got in a conference room and all of
the sheets of paper got posted. It was the fruitiest example of
corporate therapy I have ever seen. Anyway I was still stressed at the
whole "leaving the management around part" so when the corporate guy
came to me personally to ask what I could do to make things better I
said," Well I can quit." and took him off guard. I already had a job
offer and was planning on doing it that week. So the parent company
decided to buy us out and give us all cash for our stock options. That
was when they said, "Have your financial advisor look over it." So I go
through the trouble of getting an advisor and he pretty much said,"
Well, you can't really do anything about the rate so sign it." It was
then when I learned that financial advisors have a really narrow field
that they can work in. For instance they can't do taxes or offer
business advice. They pretty much stick with financial planning and
investing. Which is good since I need it. I still think back to those
days sometimes, wondering how it is possible to enact such change from
the bottom up that it changed the whole company as I knew it. Really the
most amazing thing about it was that I got cash for my stock options,
which is unheard of since the tech crash. And now for the rest of the
story...

Thought of the Day
Brick Tamland: I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like
the guy said... my tummy itches.
Anchorman

// posted by Brian @ 3/16/2006 02:26:00 PM