the smack factor

I got the “welcome aboard” and everything.  My first official start of the work day is Tuesday.  Am I excited?  Hells yes I’m excited!  I’m still very weirded out by the way everything went down, but it’s slowly pealing away to reveal real freaking excitement.  The words “we’d like you to head up this _____ project” were used.  I feel surreal.  Me, heading up a project.  A real, outside world facing, wide exposure, tech shiny and creative freedomly project.   It’s like I’m an adult over here.  I’m going to begin working on detailing out the generic ideas I gave my new bosses this weekend.  I also need to find out where people go to research (REAL RESEARCH, not little internet blurbs) social media/networking trends and things of that nature.  I want to be able to have an opinion and have the research to back it up.  I’ve never done REAL research where acting on a portfolio of results is actually meaningful to the outside world, so all of this is beyond exciting for me.

I’m in creative nerd heaven.  I get to define the project, work with the IT department (yay!!), and graphic design and make what we shall now call “project smack” a success in 4 months.  Realistically I think it will need 6 months, but hey, I’ll get the bulk of it heading towards success or like as close to success as possible in 4 months and then maybe we adjust the timeline?  either way, I’m going into this with all guns, bowstaffs, and pickax’s flaring and blazing and chopping.  I am going to rock their world so hardcore four months will go by and they’ll pay me double to keep me around.

And now, all the women are going to hate me, but - I’m really excited to be working directly for 2 men.  My recent experience with women in leadership was less than stellar and while i don’t plan to hold onto this horrible well lived and documented stereotype, I have seen with my own two eyes why the stereotype exists.  I am blissfully looking forward to not working for crazybitch, gossipy, manipulative power blinded harpies. (that’s harpy, not hairpie, in case you read that wrong).  I remember being excited back in the day for working for a woman because one of my managers had been a bumbling socially inept man with no marketing/creative/comms experience.  Granted, we butted heads over skills and the importance of actually marketing prototypes so people are aware of them and use them, etc, but still, kind of a turd.   My point is, I was open minded about women in leadership positions.   I gradually grew really disappointed and sort of embarassed by the example given by these women.  They not only fit the mold but the queen bee broke it.  So anyway, I’m not giving up completely, lovely leadership ladies, but I’m ready for a dose of pure, unmanipulative, man power.

With that, I must go.  I have to get this place in a little bit of order and then Factor and I are heading to the Times Square toys r us to buy cornhole.

Yes.  Cornhole in the apartment.