[gmku]

Oh lord. You know what I'd do if they spoke to me like that? I'd say, uh, excuse me, sir, but I think I speak for everyone hear when I say: Huh?

That's the kind of shit I don't miss. That and outside consultants. We had one come in last year to spend a year "observing" us and figure out how we might re-organize. I started to get suspicious when she gradually started showing up less and less, until finally there was just a note on her office to let us know how she could be reached. Some observing. She turned in her report and we never heard another thing, and nothing changed. We didn't even get to have Hawaiin Shirt Fridays.

Oh, and "Strategic Planning." We'd spend three boring days in some dismal hotel convention lobbby listening to consultants and working in little work groups to come up with a big plan. Then we'd go back to our offices and that would be it. Plan? What plan? Ridiculous waste of time.