Taking a few extra minutes out of some meetings I’ve been in — an endless series of meetings, interspersed by hurried phonecons — pretty much all day since I got up this morning and headed to the airport.
What was to have been a one-day-turnaround trip has instead turned into a Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon trip. Rrg. Fortunately it fits with Margie’s schedule this week.
Intense set of meetings with Oracle doing global planning for a system — after HR invited them to do so without IT’s involvement. Then an intense meeting with Accounting, HR, and Payroll about presenting a plan for a system to the executive management — which meeting, two hours later, turned out to be partially, perhaps, obsoleted, or at least redirected, by some new strategic directions being examined by executive management.
Oh, and the CIO resigned from the company. Which I found out a day later than everyone else (probably because I was slated to come out here today), but not from my boss with whom, aside from that two hour meeting, I have exchanged a dozen words (but with whom I’ve slotted some time tomorrow morning).
There’s a bunch of IT folks out here for some product training, a bunch of IT folks here for the big meetings I’m in, and all of IT management is here to meet with the interim CIO.
Things be a wee bit hectic.