October 14, 2003
Restructures...
Today we were mostly being restructured... again. I think it's about the 8th or 9th in the four years I've been here... two a year. That's a pretty good average.
I wish I could send around the Dilbert comic that was sent around the office today, but can't because of copyright. It gave me comfort to know that this phenomenon is common enough to warrant someone writing a comic strip about it.
At today's 'briefing' it was like the head of the department was reading the results of an ugly management turf-war-cum-cat-fight. But I'm sure nothing like that happened at all and it was all in the best interest of the company... ahem.
September 10, 2003
Interviewing
Spent the morning interviewing potential designers to do next year's trainee scheme. Quite tedious since it's the third round of the selection process. It would save so much time if some people just came with 'deadshit' tatooed on their forehead.
We'd managed to weed out those who submitted photos of their 2yr old's plasticine model horses at the portfolio stage. We now have found two stars amongst a quagmire of mediocrity.