But apparently my WordPress doens’t like me (i’m confident that it told me I should *backup* before I upgrade, but pfft, i’m in IT, who needs to read that shit!)
So unfortunately, again, I give you my world in bullet points:
1. The girl is going well
2. I also hired this girl because she actually knows what the fuck she’s doing and i’m in desperate need of getting about 8,000 projects off my desk, so even though i’m away for 3 months she will have work coming.out.of.her.ears!
3. I’m enjoying riding the bike a lot more, mind you it took me 7 weeks to get 1,000k’s ridden on it (very, very sad really)
4. I’m off to the UK and the business is pulling the rug from under me… which actually doesn’t bother me because if I don’t make it i’ll just hang out in the UK and jerk off for three weeks because i’m fucking going on holidays to Europe no matter what anyone says!
5. Can you tell i’m a little tired from work?
6. Have had the flu the last week, this is not good
7. Oxfam (trailwalker) training is going well, but damn i’ll be glad when it’s all over, because it’s taking.over.my.fucking.life and i’m sick of it
8. I want to spend more time at home, and (again) i’m off to Sydney for three weeks. As much as it’s great to see the girl, i’m absolutely losing my mind that my hard-earned money goes into something I don’t even get to enjoy
9. It’s only going to get more busy, which in turn will ensure I only get more sick and don’t look after myself
10. I should look after myself more
11. I haven’t seen my nephew in 3 weeks (away + sick + influenza scare = keep the fuck away from nephew).. this disappoints me greatly 
12. I’m continuing to lose my mind 
Other than that, things are blasting along at a stupid pace, i’m tired constantly and not doing half the things I wanted when I moved here.
So:
1. I’m going on holidays, this will calm me down
2. I’m hiring more people, this will help
3. I’m taking some big-ticket items off my plate (ie voice) which will help
That’s all I have to say at this minute
Adam
13:42 on August 6th, 2007
All I’m hearin is Blah Blah Blah.. excuses
20:01 on August 6th, 2007
See now, that wasn’t so hard was it?
And like I said today, please, PLEASE, stop telling me how much work I’m going to be doing. Remember the new work/life balance thing I’m going for? And do you really want me to having a nerve induced heart attack before I start?
Yeah, let’s try and remember that.
12:05 on August 8th, 2007
You’ll be fine darlin’ … Don’t worry, the list is huge, but it’s all realistic given that we just need to set expecatations to the business.
So we’ll
a)get some small operational wins up your sleeve (easy)
b)take the time to comprehensively write a detailed (overriding) voice strategy paper.
That paper will cover:
- Vendors (telecoms, transit, suppliers)
- Systems (global dial, voip, transit)
- Processes (management, ownership, documentation)
Once we have those, we’ll write:
- Mobile strategy
then;
- Fixed strategy
They will attach to the global voice strategy in binding/defining what we do/don’t do and how we go about doing it.
Thirdly, we’ll harvest off to the business to write comprehensive, in-country processes and procedures that we (ie you) will centrally signoff, but the work itself will be done in each region….
So we have (countries)
- Australia
- NZ
- UK
To start with, then we’ll go to:
- Africa/South Africa
- Dubai/UAE
- US
YEEEEEHA!
But seriously:
- Operational wins - 2 months
- Strategy - 1 month (fulltime)
- Signoff - 1 month
- Mobile strategy - 1 week
- Fixed strategy - 1 week
- Signoff - 2 weeks
blah blah blah.. you get the point.. plenty of time…
Importantly, getting the initial, global strategy will push the onus back onto the business to understand the complexities of what we’re trying to do, and start the process for them (the business) realising this is not just ‘plug it in’ stuff, it requires serious commitment for serious outputs and global results…
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Fuck me this is going to be fun!
A
7:32 on August 9th, 2007
Ooooh, Ooooh! Can I work for you too? You make it sound just so darn exciting!
19:50 on August 9th, 2007
Mel. Not so much exciting, more so petrifying and a lot of work.
(Well, slightly exciting)
(Also Adam, this is slightly comforting to me. Although my eye twitch says otherwise)