SFB in public sector

Dear Jeff Mullis (R-Chickamauga)

Let me get this clear. You are not a State Senator from TN. You are not a US Senator from TN. You are State Senator from GA. Ok so you are the chair of the GA Senate's Transportation Committee so thinking about airports is on your plate. And your district is up near TN.

Are you a SFB? Where is your allegiance?

What about an airport in GA? What could the Republican Party do to attract more votes outside of the ATL suburbs? How about an airport south of the city where development is a bit sparse, not north of metro ATL where things are booming?

Let's blue sky:

Draw a line between Macon and Columbus. Go halfway between and a bit north. Lots of agricultual land with not enough water -- those of us in metro and to the north want it. Buy land. Build an airport.

ATL wants to build a new terminal for $1.5 billion. Probably could do this new airport for about that much. S GA wants development and could use roads. Build high speed roads to Macon and Columbus. Build high speed rail to ATL. Put it underground for security.

What do you have?

If weather causes a problem at ATL, you have a place to send planes without diverting them to places not connected to ATL.

Congestion reliever for ATL -- notice how long planes wait on runways at ATL.

Lots of jobs in places where the government has long said it wants to increase jobs.

Good connections between the metro area and two other centers of population -- within GA.

I'll wager if you and your comrades under the golden Dome can surface your heads you can come up with more advantages.

the voting Republican but fed up with stupidity pup

p.s. Maybe we need a new political party -- the Progressive Conservative Party -- its motto:

I'm not with stupid

What is the background?

• It is an easily observed phenomenon that some people have s--- for brains (sfb). Several celebutants who have crashed and burned lately come immediately to mind. You don't need links to their stories. Go to People or its ilk.
  
  
• When you have invested over a decade in a job and you mostly enjoy working at the company, you start to take ownership in it. You not only want it to exceed, you want it to excel.
  
  This company uses immense amounts of technology in providing the services to its clients -- some of the biggest and most powerful corporations in the world. Its technology is best of breed.
  
  
• I have decades of experience of working with computer technology. A goodly portion of that time has been working with information presentation.

So where is this all going?

We have an elaborate system for managing projects. One of the collateral results is some documentation of what changes were made to our software.

We have a group whose mission is to document everything for clients. They do a good job. There is some internal documentation. But there is all that information between ears of the techno-workers.

Some of that stuff makes its way into emails. Because there are no tools for storing and organizing information on an ad hoc basis, most people use the email system (Lotus Notes) for storing this information. Because, like all people in this kind of environment, we don't have enough time to keep our electronic plates clean, there is a buildup of e-dross and e-lint -- flotsam and jetsam of the electronic age.

The solution?

Some SFB has decided to enforce a one year retention policy on email. To do this as efficiently as possible less than 8 weeks notice was given.

Sampling the planning of my co-workers, the headline in the Wall Street Journal should read

Company jettisons intellectual property - disdains backup

[I'm out of time for this post. More later.]

So what set me off?

I am at work. A few minutes ago I got up and walked past a co-worker. She is a 2/3 level supervisor.

I think the minimum courtesy at work is to say "Good morning/afternoon/evening/night" the first time you see a person each shift. And do it with a smile. Smiles add beauty to the face. They say

I care enough about you to give you my best!

What she gave me was a mild version of the look. If you have (or have had) a mother, or a wife, or a girl friend, you have seen the look. The fiercest of them can pierce steel.

I know we are reorganizing the company and confusion is reigning supreme. But lighten up! Get with the program! Treat your co-workers as human at all time!

What is this and why?

I decided not to pollute my other blog with whining.

I don't like whining. But sometimes you just have to blow off steam. That's what this is.