On notice
"Two Weeks Notice" is a great concept. I recommend giving it. People know you're leaving, but you haven't left yet. They say nice things, and you shake a lot of hands. If you share the details of your departure with them, a surprising number will return in kind by dishing out classified information and juicy gossip. I feel as though I'm a vessel departing out to sea, and people are coming to me to safely stow away their burdens and deepest-held opinions about life in the office.Many, though, don't know yet, I think. No e-mail has been sent, and it seems immodest to spread the word myself. Typically, it's one of two types of e-mails when someone goes. If someone gets canned, and that always happens on a Friday afternoon (that's in all the corporate manuals,) they send out a curt "So-and-so doesn't work here anymore. We wish him or her the best." The people who leave at noon on Friday don't find out until Monday. If someone leaves for a different job, they send out the old "So-and-so is moving on to such-and-such. It's a tremendous opportunity. We will miss him or her very much, but know they will be very successful... Now get back to work." (I made up that last part, but it's implied.)
If you quit because you wanted more money, you're on your own. An e-mail might produce copycat behavior.
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The Cards are done, and I'm frustrated. They were out-pitched, out-hit, and out-executed. The umpiring was garbage, and needs to be addressed by the league on principle, but those mistakes were magnified by the Cardinals' overall lack of scoring chances. I knew it was over in the third inning last night. All they had going for them in the series was momentum, and they lost that when they fell behind.
Let the demolition begin. I'm ready. Bigger and better...
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I'm rooting for Houston, even though I may not watch much of the Series. The four reasons: 1) It would call more attention to the lack of an advantage given to Division Winners over Wild Card entrants, hopefully sparking some major rule changes, 2) Bagwell and Biggio have been worthy opponents for nearly two decades, and deserve their chance to represent the NL in the Series, even though they're both shadows of their former selves, 3) Darryl Kile would be rooting for them, and 4) I'm starting to think they need to win it all before Roger Clemens will retire.
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The award for best timing by a major sports publication goes to The Sporting News, for naming Andruw Jones their Player of the Year the day after Pujols' Game 5 bomb.
The Great Pujols beat by a .263 hitter. Mind blowing.
posted by CM @ 9:55 PM
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