Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Well what a hilarious 3 days it's been.
Was unexpectedly on 60 Minutes then I made a debut appearance on ACA. I'm all class. I'm just glad it wasn't for being a conman. People at work have been telling me they saw me on tv, and to tell you the truth I am bloody loving the attention! LOL. When they interviewed me on Sunday I prayed that they wouldn't use it, and even considered asking them not to. Then this morning my boss comes out and says he saw me on ACA last night and I'm like OH NO. I spent all day shitting myself wondering which part they used eg the part when they asked me if the debate will affect the election and I said "well I think people will be doing their reading before then" coz I really fucking did not have an opinion on anything. Anyway it's on the ACA website so I got to look at it when I got home from work and well hey it's not that bad.
Fi also interviewed me for an article she's writing for Election Tracker and that was exciting too, she was asking quite serious questions and I saw the real journalist side of her for the first time. HIGH FIVE!
Work was good today, I managed to get the new brochure launch email out which took hours of editing by all the powers that be. And because it was a new email program we're using, the ecommerce chick in marketing had to do it, and she was getting frickin annoyed at all the changes we were making. So that sucked having to go tell her to change things over and over again. Then she disappeared to a meeting for about two hours and I sat there waiting for her to come back. Then she got back, but she was eating her lunch. I watched and waited till she ate her lunch (mind you this is all because my supervisor told me to GET THE EMAIL OUT NOW!) then pulled up a chair and sat with her at her desk and told her everything that needed to be changed. The chick who sits opposite her was chuckling behind her monitor because she knew how annoyed the other chick was and how uncomfortable I felt annoying her even further. Anyway it finally got sent out, and my supervisor said well done, I did a good job. Dude, that's what I live for. Within five minutes of sending out the email to our priority agents, the phone lines went crazy.
I also sent out a press release to journos and trade publications and we got a hit, our new Japan brochure cover is going to be in TravelTalk. (I think that's a magazine). Press releases are interesting, because you have to send an email out to each individual journo personalising it with their name and that takes a while.
As for the promotion, the chick that was going to take the job temporarily until the end of Feb (good timing for me - I would have been able to slot right in after I got back from China) isn't taking the job anymore, so they are now advertising the position and asking everyone to register their interest. So no, no special offers. But I'm going to let them know I'm interested anyway. You gotta be in it to win it. At first I was thinking Oh fuck, why haven't they offered it to me? And got all paranoid that they didn't like me, but then I got that positive feedback from my supervisor and thought nah man it ain't personal. The thing is, they actually need someone to do my job, and if I moved into that job, they would have to not only train me all over again, but also train the person taking my job, AND who would only be doing the job for two months more anyway. Ah well. See this is what happens when you get carried away with things you've only heard through the grape vine. ¶ 19:03
Was unexpectedly on 60 Minutes then I made a debut appearance on ACA. I'm all class. I'm just glad it wasn't for being a conman. People at work have been telling me they saw me on tv, and to tell you the truth I am bloody loving the attention! LOL. When they interviewed me on Sunday I prayed that they wouldn't use it, and even considered asking them not to. Then this morning my boss comes out and says he saw me on ACA last night and I'm like OH NO. I spent all day shitting myself wondering which part they used eg the part when they asked me if the debate will affect the election and I said "well I think people will be doing their reading before then" coz I really fucking did not have an opinion on anything. Anyway it's on the ACA website so I got to look at it when I got home from work and well hey it's not that bad.
Fi also interviewed me for an article she's writing for Election Tracker and that was exciting too, she was asking quite serious questions and I saw the real journalist side of her for the first time. HIGH FIVE!
Work was good today, I managed to get the new brochure launch email out which took hours of editing by all the powers that be. And because it was a new email program we're using, the ecommerce chick in marketing had to do it, and she was getting frickin annoyed at all the changes we were making. So that sucked having to go tell her to change things over and over again. Then she disappeared to a meeting for about two hours and I sat there waiting for her to come back. Then she got back, but she was eating her lunch. I watched and waited till she ate her lunch (mind you this is all because my supervisor told me to GET THE EMAIL OUT NOW!) then pulled up a chair and sat with her at her desk and told her everything that needed to be changed. The chick who sits opposite her was chuckling behind her monitor because she knew how annoyed the other chick was and how uncomfortable I felt annoying her even further. Anyway it finally got sent out, and my supervisor said well done, I did a good job. Dude, that's what I live for. Within five minutes of sending out the email to our priority agents, the phone lines went crazy.
I also sent out a press release to journos and trade publications and we got a hit, our new Japan brochure cover is going to be in TravelTalk. (I think that's a magazine). Press releases are interesting, because you have to send an email out to each individual journo personalising it with their name and that takes a while.
As for the promotion, the chick that was going to take the job temporarily until the end of Feb (good timing for me - I would have been able to slot right in after I got back from China) isn't taking the job anymore, so they are now advertising the position and asking everyone to register their interest. So no, no special offers. But I'm going to let them know I'm interested anyway. You gotta be in it to win it. At first I was thinking Oh fuck, why haven't they offered it to me? And got all paranoid that they didn't like me, but then I got that positive feedback from my supervisor and thought nah man it ain't personal. The thing is, they actually need someone to do my job, and if I moved into that job, they would have to not only train me all over again, but also train the person taking my job, AND who would only be doing the job for two months more anyway. Ah well. See this is what happens when you get carried away with things you've only heard through the grape vine. ¶ 19:03
