Have you seen the new Pride & Prejudice starring our girl Keira Knightly? (oh, how we love her!)
Anyway, it's good. The mini-series starring Colin (OH HOW WE LOVE HIM) Firth is the most faithful to the book but I have to say that this most recent version is so very entertaining.
Anyway.
Moe is now watching it for the 5,000th time. Which not only renews my personal love for the classics (especially our friend Jane Austen) but also makes me feel better about the generation coming after me; if they appreciate Our Friend Jane as much as I do, they can't be all bad.
God Bless Keira Knightly (oh how we love her) for not only resurrecting Our Friend Jane but also showing How Not To Fear Pirates and How To Play Soccer as well as How To Be A Bounty Hunter (should we so choose).
LOVE her!!!!
THAT is what woman in the 21st century is all about: Bounty Hunter looking for a suitable husband, not scared of pirates. That could be an ad on Match.com.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Lay Me Down
First check this out if you have been living in a cave for the last couple of years and don't know what's going on at Sun Microsystems:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/31/78807_HNsunlayoffs_1.html
I have been working with the channel marketing group (or whatever they call themselves) over at Sun for the last couple of weeks trying to get them to release channel partner marketing money for a lead generation program we want to implement.
This morning, after a ridiculously large amount of time arguing, rediscussing in committee, hemming and hawing, and generally driving me up the wall, I received an email telling me that our request was denied.
Whatever.
Did I mention the program was for lead generation? As in: it will help us sell their product for them?
Anyway, I called the sales guy for this program immediately and let him know that we won't have the funding, etc. He said of course he understood and that we could work something else out with another partner. Blah blah blah, pleasantries, okay you take care now.
About an hour later he called me with a story about a friend of a friend who works for Sun- apparently tomorrow first thing is when the axe is going to fall, and NOBODY knows who is getting it. Everyone is sitting on their hands because they don't know if they will have a job at 8:05 tomorrow morning.
Now this got me to thinking, and I told the guy exactly what was on my mind: If you knew your company has been in trouble for the last, oh I don't know- five years or so, (ever since the dot-com bust, really) and they were engaging in virtually annual layoffs, and the CEO recently told Snoopy and the gang "Sayonara!!", AND they announced more layoffs (5,000!) this year , isn't there really two logical courses of action?
The first one being, of course, get the hell out of Dodge and work somewhere else; and the second one being to start being the best damn employee anyone's ever seen so as to make yourself indispensible?
Or maybe that's just me...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/31/78807_HNsunlayoffs_1.html
I have been working with the channel marketing group (or whatever they call themselves) over at Sun for the last couple of weeks trying to get them to release channel partner marketing money for a lead generation program we want to implement.
This morning, after a ridiculously large amount of time arguing, rediscussing in committee, hemming and hawing, and generally driving me up the wall, I received an email telling me that our request was denied.
Whatever.
Did I mention the program was for lead generation? As in: it will help us sell their product for them?
Anyway, I called the sales guy for this program immediately and let him know that we won't have the funding, etc. He said of course he understood and that we could work something else out with another partner. Blah blah blah, pleasantries, okay you take care now.
About an hour later he called me with a story about a friend of a friend who works for Sun- apparently tomorrow first thing is when the axe is going to fall, and NOBODY knows who is getting it. Everyone is sitting on their hands because they don't know if they will have a job at 8:05 tomorrow morning.
Now this got me to thinking, and I told the guy exactly what was on my mind: If you knew your company has been in trouble for the last, oh I don't know- five years or so, (ever since the dot-com bust, really) and they were engaging in virtually annual layoffs, and the CEO recently told Snoopy and the gang "Sayonara!!", AND they announced more layoffs (5,000!) this year , isn't there really two logical courses of action?
The first one being, of course, get the hell out of Dodge and work somewhere else; and the second one being to start being the best damn employee anyone's ever seen so as to make yourself indispensible?
Or maybe that's just me...
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