All Hands Quarterly Meeting

Yesterday was the quarterly company-wide meeting at Alamo Drafthouse, called All Hands. It started at 8AM and I haven't gotten up before 10AM the past couple of weeks to go to work, since I've been working on the CEO's photos and trying to have a social life which keeps me up all night long. Anyways, as if by some miracle of baby Jesus, I woke up yesterday. I get there and there are free breakfast tacos and whatever the hell you want to order from Alamo is on the house. The meeting is from 8-3:30 though, which is looooonng. All the departments make funny videos or wear costumes or act out skits to go along with their powerpoints. Most departments highlight all the new members of their department, their growth, what they've been up too, what their goals in the future are, thank people from other departments, etc etc etc.

After sitting through quite a few departments talk about their people, it was finally time for the marketing department to get up there and strut their shit. Except all they talked about was the Social Commerce Summit and the product management team. The design team, evidently, doesn't exist. Sam, the CMO, went through at the beginning and mentioned the three newest people in the department, assuming everyone had already met the rest. Well, thanks a lot, dickweed. I would just like the tiniest bit of recognition.

Not only were the designers not mentioned by our own department, NO ONE else mentioned us. Sales, where would you be without sales mockups? Implementation, you obviously have a low staff issue. How would you like to take on all the initial stylings we do for you? And god forbid, you'd all have to learn to use Photoshop to make your own graphics and buttons instead of dumping it all on Litsa and I. Recruiting, it is not by some divine miracle that the jobs get posted on the website. Brett, how in the hell does a high tech company run without a website?

Moral of the story is that we are fucking underappreciated and it puts me in a grumpy mood. ): I'm also obsessed with Jeff Buckley right now, which does not put me in a grumpy mood, but it does make me feel sentimental or bluesy. I love Jeff Buckley. <3