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November 11, 2005
The Little Things
The other day, I wandered up to the Cafeteria to make a cup of tea. Much to my unexpected delight, I found real lemon on the condiment table - rather than the little packets of reconstituted lemon juice they'd had the last time I looked.
It's small, it's stupid, but it sorta made my day.
Another example: on Wednesday a sales team scheduled a call with a (prospective) customer over lunch on Thursday. I have a recurring 45 minute block from 12:15 to 1pm - so them scheduling this call means they double booked me.
So I pushed back - saying they needed to either move the meeting, or coordinate food. "They" (the "they" who do these things) said they'd arrange food.
Thursday, moments before the call was to start, I realized that no one else on the call was in the Seattle office. So I'm sitting in my office, wondering "where's the lunch" when in walks one of the admin assistants from their group with lunch, fresh from the caf'.
It wasn't gourmet, but it was food. Her only comment, as she was walking out was "geez, they must have really needed you on the call..."
Posted by dberger at November 11, 2005 10:02 AM