View From the Bushes

As was pointed out in one of the comments, I've been sick on and off for quite a while. I think one of the problems is that, where I work, we have all purpose paid time off (PTO). Which means that rather than having sick days, you just have days off and you can use all of them as sick days or none of them as sick days; as a consequence, unless I am physically unable to walk, I generally refuse to use any of my precious PTO to lie at home and be miserable. Of course, this means that I'm sick/miserable for a much longer time.

However, after going into work on Sunday, spending nine hours getting a server back up and healthy yesterday, and coming in a 7 am this morning, the powers that be graciously offered to let me go home at noon, so hopefully through judicious napping this afternoon I'll finally turn a corner, but enough about illness. At work, we've been interviewing for an IT position, and it's been interesting whom we've seen. For example, today...

The guy was 15 minutes late, which arguably isn't as bad as it sounds, but it really puts everyone conducting the interview into a foul mood. Then five minutes into the interview, when asked about his recent experience as a consultant, he says "well when I applied for this job the economy was pretty soft, but now it's starting to pick up...I prefer consulting." After that, I don't think anyone in the room was listening, because at that point the interview was over. The moral of the story being, of course, even if you do prefer something else, you should never say that.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross