I'm not gay or anything but...

This week is the big sales meeting at my company. Sales Engineers from all over the world now head back here to the home office for mingling, boozing, and one assumes to learn something.

In our UK office it is now manned by one guy. Everyone else in that office is here so he has the whole place to himself. Good for him.

I feel like that too. I come into work at 6am now to help out with the UK. If I am in at 6 I can take critical issues and get support here.

I like it because I am out of work at 2 pm and it saves me money on the babysitter.

The UK site has gotten a new manager. I like this guy because he doesn't take any shit. The UK site has kind of been a joke around here because they don't do shit. This manager wants to change all of that. He has been cracking down and kicking ass.

He has been pretty impressed with my work too. He brought me an $80.00 bottle of scotch when he came down for the sales meeting. Was pretty nice of him.

I'll have to start drinking scotch now.

Anyway.

The dude who is all alone in the UK is the biggest screwup of all of the UK screw ups. I kept hearing how he was going to be fired as soon as the got someone.

I felt bad. I had only talked to this guy on the phone but he seemed nice. He was totally clueless about the job, but he seemed really nice.

So he is also a coward. While everyone is in the USA for the sales meeting, he calls or emails his boss and quits.

You stay classy.

So of course the UK manager doesn't accept his notice and tells him to get out of the office right away.

He is the only one there. He could steal shit, break shit, whatever. The point is he is no longer a company employee and he is unsupervised.

This now comes to me. I have to be in the office at 5 am now. It is about 10 or 11 in the UK at that time so it's the best we can do until we get someone over there.

Now onto the blog title. Dealing with the UK has put me in a UK kind of mood regarding music. This morning before I left for work I put the best of New Order and the best of the Smiths on my ipod.

As I was driving in listening to the Smiths in the car I thought back 16 (Holy fuck has it been that long?) years ago to my first job in a department store. It was the early 90's and I was a little guy who was into alternative music.

This blond dude is working in the receiving area and talking about the Smiths. He is saying how he saw them in concert and was really impressed by the lead singer Morissey. (Morissey is very very very VERY gay)

He then goes on to say how Morissey ripped his shirt off and threw it into the audience. The dude telling the story caught the shirt. He went on to say how good it smelled and then followed up with:

"I'm not gay or anything, but I would have fucked him that night."

I was like "Umm dude...if you would fuck a guy, then you're gay."

He denied it saying it was just a moment that he felt like that. I was like uh huh.

He quit like 2 weeks later.

Just thought of that story around 4 am driving because some limey quit.