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working in Vancouver

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

During the days I'm working in an EDS office downtown, and in the evenings I'm supporting the client in Tokyo. The work I'm doing in the office downtown is tearing the office down. It seems that EDS lost some business in BC recently and the whole thing's been shut down. There's just me and the receptionist.

I shredded so many documents and smashed so many CD's and stuff that some work-from-home manager visiting the office looked at the row of garbage bags and said, "You did all that in a week?" I told her, "I did all that in a morning!" These Vancouverites, it's a miracle anything works. And it's a miracle that only a couple of years ago I was unable to find work, here in this backwater.

I've found an old tube TV that had "made in Canada" stamped proudly on the side. I assume that was someone's little joke: a TV made in Canada, riiiight. 8^p

I don't why things have gotten like this. At the one side I would very much like to make a go of it in Tokyo: I love the place. But at the same time the work situation is bonkers. I'm completely at the mercy of people with whom I can barely communicate.