Nothing worse than meetings when you're on your way out of a company. Oh wait, yes there is. I can imagine that having your departure cancelled when you're already in the mindset of moving on would be pretty rough. Well, for a dysfunctional organization anyway. If it were a hard hitting, success story of an oceanographic research organization, it would be exciting to be kept on. But when it's crumbling around those who remain... well, that would be deflating.
And I've got a meeting about the hand-off of our old work - which was stopped months ago, and in which I have totally lost interest. That's going to be a tough session.
Anyway, presentations are flying around with big plans for the future. High tech lobster traps, levitating ocean skimmers and autonomous diving robots. In the background there's always mention of the big inventions of the past... like from the 40's and 50's that the organization did. Like the discovery of whole new species of mollusks and the first crab tagging apparatus. The ivory tower is shored up by old logs and duct tape, but it's still there.
Meanwhile I'm getting my own tower built. Well, it's more of a foundation, a platform perhaps. Got my URL and place holder web page in place. The first step for any modern company, even before incorporating. We'll see if it ever gets much further than this, but for now it's a start.
Researchinator wishes this last week was over!
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