marcicat | it’s just minions talking with minions

One of the really interesting things my workplace does is periodically share an org chart, which is a fascinating way to see how important various people are in the company, and turns out to be especially helpful in identifying when you are having a minion-to-minion conversation.

Anyway, there was a bit of a situation this week, where I couldn’t get a whole bunch of things to shift their status to complete in the new computer system. Brought it up to my boss, who brought it up to her boss, who told me to use a work-around. “Just go ahead and do it; we’re not going to tell the numbers minions.” (paraphrased, obvs)

And who did I get a phone call from the very next day? One of my fellow minions over in numbers, asking wtf was going on with the work-around. We had a lovely twenty-minute conversation in which I got a significant amount of other work done, and we pretty much worked our way to a much better solution all on our own.

Score one for the minions!

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