RE: I'm the only chimp here

["Wilcox, Rose (ZB5646)" <Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- pinnaclewest -dot- com>]

<<
"I think that this e-mail wins the prize for "Most Offensive of the Week"." 
is one of the nicer responses that I have recieved concerning my prevous 
post.>>

Maybe we should have a weekly contest!
<grin>

[snip]
<<
I was clearly wrong to imply that certain aspects of our job "could be done 
by a chimp". What we do is an art and a skill. I apologize for trivializing 
and diminishing any aspect of it.

>>

I am, as we speak, killing forests of trees by printing every document in
the repository for a new Project Manager, at the request of one of my many
bosses.  A chimp could not do this because the repository is badly designed
and the process is inadequately applied, so it requires some judgement as to
"what is a document".  I think I will propose we create a super chimp who
could do this task by scanning the repository for .doc tags.  

The fact that I am doing this task is no reflection on my potential value to
the organization.  

Off topic.  Recently I have been seeing the word "monkey" everywhere.  For
instance, while driving around with my friend Michael, I would see the word
"Market" as "Monkey".  We were having a lot of fun with this when I saw a
sign that said, "Monkey Cocktail Bar".  We circled back around and sure
enough, there is really a "Monkey Cocktail Bar."  At the time, I took it as
a sign, but I didn't know what it was a sign of.  Now thanks to the
synchronicity of your post and this task, I realize....  I, too, am a chimp.
Just for today.  Tomorrow I will be a technical writer again... unless I
turn into an unemployed chim... er, tech writer ... in the meantime. 

Ohmigawd, I just realized that the snack I obtained from the cafeteria this
afternoon is peanuts and a banana!!!

Gratefully employed,

Rose A. Wilcox (the "A" stands for "Another Banana, please")
Project Office / Power Trading
Communication Specialist / Technical Writer / Chimp
Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- PinnacleWest -dot- com



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