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DK seems to be acting... strangely this last week or so. Since his not-discussed-promotion to 'team lead' and getting his 'own team' he has been solidly using the excuse of 'administrative work' in standup meetings for the last week or two. At random points in the standsups he starts ragging on our 'outsourced folk' with out actually mentioning them by name.

Today he "conducted" the stand up meeting in an even more odd fashion. The usual meeting starts with him babbling about stuff the it goes to the left of him around the circle explaining what they are doing today and what they did yesterday. That occurred in today's meeting, but then he required to go BACK in reverse order and verify each person had something to do. WHAT!? Didn't we just do that?

Damn.

I being the clever chap required him to verify he had work items to do as well. Huzzah.

He also has been ramping up his frustrations with meeting?'s incompetent skillz. I thought DK might even bitch slap meeting? for a second. Oh well. The life on the lowest run of management.

My presentation is chalking up quite a few slides. Thankfully I am done with the whole "let's build a project because you are stupid" and will be moving into the more 'advance' stuff which will require less slides and more interaction.

I have to say my bomb diggity graphics will totally keep people up and going... I have me the space cadet.. a few ships going "pew pew pew", a nice space background... hot damn! Hopefully it is all fairly unobtrusive.

I have a few monsters / robots sketched out.. but I need more.. like three or so more. We'll see how that goes. I think I will be sketching them out on the back of keno tickets.

I am just damn giddy about the whole thing..

It was picture day at work. Jefe had gathered us all as we traipsed through the building trying to figure out where to go. It ended up being the lobby, but hell if we would have waited. The big group picture was snapped with Fallout boy and I on the far right - away from Meeting? and BJ's rank ass breath.

I was ready to head back to our floor when Jefe declared we needed two more pictures of people in small groups. That was odd. She dictated that DK, BJ, Meeting?, Bloopers, and Falloutboy would be the first. Ahm Okay. I asked her 'why?' to which she responded "that's Dk's team".

Ahm. Hold up there sister. Come again?

It seems that MarkyMark, Sticks, and I report directly to Jefe.

Strange.

I had to pull up the org chart to affirm this is true. I guess she wasn't really planning on telling anyone. Stellar job there. Why tell anyone the team structure shifted?

On better news I am now giving a two hour "Reporting Service" training session in three weeks. Damn. Hopefully I get some stellar prize. Maybe I'll throw in some XNA programming for kicks.

I just a quizzical email a few minutes ago, and I frankly think it was directed at Falloutboy (but it was emailed to the whole team).

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