Calendar Systems, Respect

(Meeting name blurred to protect the guilty -- although I'm not sure why.)

I'm leaving tomorrow morning on the 6:05 AM flight, so I blocked this afternoon off to get ready and run errands as needed with a meeting that says Getting Ready to Leave Please Ask Before Scheduling. Without so much as an email attached to the invitation asking if it is OK, a 1.5 hour weekly meeting popped on my calendar this morning.

This shows either a complete disregard for the ability of our calendaring system to show available times, or a complete disregard for me. Hopefully the former.

Are Everybody's Hands Broken?

A process at work has been failing for an hour and a half. I can't fix it because I'm on the air and can't get to work machines.

But I guess everybody else getting being paged had a freak accident this morning.

Update: Some people have said that they didn't know what to do, and that there is no documentation. Well, sending an email saying that or calling me is doing something.

Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm

Since a certain someone who is obsessed with drawing everything on a board, even when it isn't needed decided to erase this from my white board, I'm posting this here, because I feel like it.

The Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very hard.
3. Write down the answer.

None of these steps may be skipped, especially the first one. Which, BTW, is about the most common mistake I see around here -- often perpetrated by our mysterious white-board eraser.