Posts Tagged 'Pursuant'
December 12, 2008
It was last Wednesday, and I was plowing through what would end up being my longest work day at Pursuant yet. Most of the work that I do at my job is fundraising for Universities or Fraternities. I usually try to become familiar with all of the projects that I set up and at least see what the client is about, what they’re proposing, requesting, etc. It being our busy season though, lately I haven’t always been able to do that, and I’ve finished some projects without having even watched the entire presentation from start to finish.
That particular day, between watching requests to “support the bond of brotherhood” and “keep our school spirit alive,” I set up a small-scale client called “The Miami Project.” Knowing nothing about them, I did my initial setup that I do for any new project and put all the appropriate video and image files where they should be and then browsed to the video to see if everything was working.
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Posted in Personal | Charity | Compassion | Conviction | Life | Pursuant | Religion
July 17, 2008
Twitter rocks my world. I’ve been actively using it for 6ish months now, and it has quite literally changed the way I communicate with my core group of friends. From random status updates to pithy remarks to thinly-veiled insults, it’s a constant battle of one-uppery. At it’s peak activity, it’s not too far removed from 7 or 8 people sitting around a table, all actively taking part in three different conversations at the same time. It’s madness, and it’s positively glorious.
As much as I love it, my phone is getting one heckuva work out. Of the 40 or so people that I follow on Twitter, I get mobile updates for about ten of them. There are nights where I will receive upwards of 30 or 40 text messages over the course of a couple of hours, and send another dozen. It’s only slightly less hectic than it sounds and infinitely more entertaining than it really has any right to be.
Fortunately, I’m on a phone plan that gives me 1,500 text messages a month. Unfortunately, even that exorbitant amount wasn’t enough for this past billing cycle.
@twitterbuddies You owe me 10 bucks.
Posted in Websinal | Friendship | Pursuant | Social Media | Twitter | Web 2.0
June 20, 2008
A group of us had lunch at the Fillmore Pub in downtown Plano today. It was delicious as usual, but I noticed something decidedly unusual as I was leaving the bathroom.
Click for larger viewIt’s a warning that consuming alcohol while pregnant could result in birth defects in your child. And it’s in Spanish. Inside of the Men’s restroom. In a pub in downtown Plano.
So, naturally, I ran back to my table as fast as I could and yanked the beer out of my pregnant Spanish-speaking wife’s hands. “¡Es un riesgo de los defectos del nacimiento!”
Crisis averted.
Posted in Personal | Fillmore | Irony | Lunch | Pursuant | Signs | Spanish
May 28, 2008
I work next to a slightly shady operation named Al’s Plumbing and Air Conditioning. I call it shady because a few co-workers have had less than perfect experiences with Al’s. This morning, our faith in Al’s fell even further when we saw a small picket line protesting Al’s brazen ways.
That’s right. Al’s Plumbing ripped off his mother. The one standing next to him.
Apparently, Al’s sent out an A/C repairman that quoted her repairs at $1,500, which she went ahead and wrote a check for. Another repairman came out later to actually fulfill said quote, and after rummaging around a bit, told her that it would actually cost an additional $7,000 dollars to fix it. She (wisely) canceled the whole thing and found somebody else that did it for $600. But stingy ole Al won’t give back her initial $1,500.
These two were there most of the morning, but shortly before lunch, a police officer stopped by and talked to them for a little while and they left a few minutes after he did.
Sooooo?! Did the woman get her $1,500 back? Did Al finally see the folly of his crooked dealings? What is Al short for anyways? Alfred? Albert? Maybe Allison? Does Al even exist? Or is he just a figurehead or mascot created by some Franks or Rogers to make their business more personable? Maybe Al’s just a representation of “the man” for the purposes of this story to further illustrate the suppression of the common man by big business?
There goes my sleep for the rest of the week.
Posted in Personal | A/C | People-Watching | Pictures | Pursuant | Repairs | Shady | Signs
January 30, 2008
Today saw a strong showing in the ever-present attempt of my sub-conscious to inadvertently get myself fired. I single-handedly built an immaculate case against myself, completely ignorant of what I was doing at the time. The case is as follows:
Exhibit A: Caleb recalls the ordeal:
This afternoon, I was trying to launch an e-mail campaign that had been on hold because of various technical issues. The issues were finally ironed out, and we got approval from the client to send it out. Matthew S___, the account manager for this particular client was pulled into a meeting right after approval, but he said that he’d have his laptop with him, so he could check it and give the final thumbs up after I had it all tested and approved on my end.
Let the record show that Caleb had absolutely no idea what the meeting was regarding, who was involved, &c, &c.
A little while later, everything was set to launch the campaign save for Matthew’s final go-ahead, so I sent him an IM letting him know it was ready.
About 90 seconds later, he stepped out of the meeting, and walked very purposefully my direction with an expression that I couldn’t quite read. He leaned over my desk and chillingly said, “Dude… my computer was hooked up to the projector, so that popped up on the screen… and those are Jewish clients in there.”
Exhibit B: Transcript of the IM that Caleb sent Matthew:
Caleb: Hey, have you looked at the final tests yet?
Stuart signed off on them
And so did Jesus Christ himself
…
Yeah, that last part was a lie
The Prosecution rests.
Posted in Personal | Fate | Foot-In-Mouth | Insults | Jesus | Jewish | Matthew Slay | Overseen | Pursuant
November 1, 2007
Yesterday, I took my first-ever sick day from work. Any job, really. I’ve missed school because I was sick, sure. Dozens of times, in fact. But, yesterday was the first time that I’d ever called in sick to a job.
No, no… I’m fine. Really. Thank you for your concern. I just had the remnants of a migraine left over from Tuesday night. All is well, though. It was a pretty nice day, actually. I wasn’t cripplingly sick. I was sick enough to not have been very productive at work, but not too sick to just lie unconscious all day. I watched some TV shows on my laptop and read a bit. All-in-all, one of the most relaxing sick days I can remember.
I might need to get sick more often.
Posted in Personal | Halloween | Headaches | Health | Pursuant | Silver Lining
