was in a meeting with the VP HR yesterday. we were there to help our users explain some of the steps forward that we’ve taken in some issues raised by internal audit. i hoped that i could just have sat there letting my superiors do the answering, but in the end that was not to be.
although i’ve known him (the VP) since i joined the company (he conducted my take-in interview), there’s somehow this feeling that he might snap at you if you say something he doesn’t like to hear. but then again, usually, who wouldn’t? but anyways, i had to speak up for a certain issue, and there was this feeling of panic in the beginning.
it’s not that i don’t know the facts or what’s happening… it’s just that the truth might actually hurt my relationship with the users, or even my colleagues. but in my cuak state i managed to blurt out a longwinded explanation (with a few repetitious statements) without incriminating anyone in particular. it was the truth, but the truth without names. or something like that.
i guess at the end of the day, it’s easier to give out some form of the truth. whether you like it or not. i’ll need more training in that aspect, definitely.
so tomorrow i head out for PD, for a work-out session with the project support team. will be there the entire weekend, save the later half of sunday, so you prolly won’t hear from me till then. yea, rejoice while you can. 😛 all that’s left for me to do is to pack and clear up the mess in my room a bit. bed sheets are in dire need of changing as well.
my computer seems to be happy in its new casing. i haven’t totally closed it yet, but there hasn’t been any crashes or reboots so far. i’ll post pics later when i have the time. one tiny quirk seems to be the boot up sequence; somehow the system will report a non system disk error which a simple Enter will bypass. it’s not major, but annoying.