It's a beautiful day

This week I got the greatest news I could possibly get while at work, and it is not a promotion. I know what some of you might be thinking, how could something work related be better than more money and greater power? Well, for me, it is finding out that my boss of the last 6 months is leaving the company.

I work in the planning organization of a large retail company and for the last 6 months, I have had to report to a director who had very limited planning experience, but he did work for prominent consulting companies working on retail strategies. For those that do not work in the corporate world let me make something very clear, Consultants are idiots. They are, they come in ask a lot of inquisitive questions, come up with a lot of ideas on how to improve processes and make things more efficient(most of which have already been thought up by people within the company), make pretty graphs, and then collect a paycheck. They never see their ideas through or even think that the failures are because they have no real clue as to what goes on.

Anyway, my boss is a consultant, so basically an idiot. In his short 6 month stint he managed to learn nothing about how the business works, work at the office from 8am - 8pm everyday, without actually doing anything, alienate every single one of his employees by not actually talking to any of them, and in general make bad business decisions that have cost our company money. However, he did make pretty graphs. So, as much of a headache he was for me, I am ecstatic that I no longer have to deal with him, making this a beautiful day!!!!

Vanity Cards

One of my favorite television shows on tv today is The Big Bang Theory. It has what I consider to be the three ingredients to making a successful comedy, originality, is actually funny, and has a hot girl for real sex appeal. However, it wasn't until the other day when I was watching on my DVR that I realized a new factor that makes it even more interesting, the blog factor.

If you ever watch the show, I urge that you wait until the end of the show to truly enjoy all elements. After the credits are shown and right before commercials begin, you will notice a white screen that pops up with paragraph of writing with a random # at the top. This screen is only up for a couple of seconds, so unless you have super speed reading abilities or a DVR, you won't read them all, but this is what Chuck Lorre calls his Vanity Cards. Basically, as one of the creators of the series, he has decided to take excerpts from his own blog and post them after each episode. I strongly encourage checking in every so often to see what he has to offer, it is truly funny stuff.