backup

I'm planning a 5-day trip to Denmark with a couple of friends of mine. Well, actually, they're planning it, and I'm just trottling along. My boss already okay'ed my absence, so now it's time to find my backup for the week...

what's hard about finding a backup, is that you actually have to find someone who is willing to do your work for a week. And not just that, he has to do his own work as well. So trying to sell that to your colleague, demands a whole lot of diplomacy.

Here are some failed efforts:

"Hi, I'm going away for a week and ..."
-"I'M NOT GONNA BE YOUR BACKUP!"

"Well hello, what are you doing on the week of the first?"
-"I know what I'm not doing... BEING YOUR BACKUP"

as you see, people can smell a backup request from miles away!

But god bless email aliases!!

"Hi, I am out of the office until november 3, without access to my emails. I have no mobile phone. For urgent requests, you can resend your email to all@myjob.com, and somebody will pick it up shortly"

downpart... nobody will pick it up... the only thing you can do is hope that the requestor will get impatient, starts calling around, and somebody gets a call from his boss telling him to deal with it.

Oh yeah, yesterday evening... I watched some episodes of "the young ones". Absolutely hysterical!!

songs I was listening to, while typing this entry:
Josh Ritter: Girl in the war
Josh Ritter: Wolves