The Office
I’ve been a little consumed with work lately. There are three events happening tomorrow, July the 4th, that I have been planning for the past month and a half. There is an press conference in the morning, an American Chamber of Commerce 4th of July event in the afternoon, and the U.S. Embassy annual 4th of July gala in the evening. I can only make 2 out of 3 events, but Josie, my trusted intern, will be my mini me and take charge of the Amcham event all by herself (well, not really she will be going with a coworker, but she’s the one who’s managing everything).
Our involvement with the Amcham and Embassy event are entertainment related. Our Aida stars are flying in today, but their flight was delayed and hence I have time to write this blog. However, it makes for a late tonight as I have to meet them at their hotel and brief them tonight, and then go to the venue of the Embassy event to deliver all of our Broadway printed materials (the theme is Broadway, so we are providing decorations as well).
Things in the office have been a little hectic in terms of preparation. In fact, there was almost a fist fight in our conference room. The only reason there wasn’t a fight is because we were in a conference room, and that is not an appropriate place to have a fight.
We hired a vendor to put together a promotional video. The vendor is apparently a sourpuss, or was just having a really bad day. After watching the video, our marketing director points out a few things she would like changed. She wasn’t happy with the beginning, and made her critiques. The vendor out of nowhere lashed out at her, angry that she had made criticisms of his video. He yelled that he had worked all night to make the video and that our company was always complaining about one thing or another. Marketing Director replies, um… we are paying you to create a video according to our own ideas, and you didn’t make it right. So fix it. He screams at her again that she should have had all her ideas clear in the beginning so he wouldn’t have to go back and edit everything. At this point our COO hears the vendor cursing at our marketing director, and being a gentleman starts yelling at him for basically being a turd, yelling at a lady, starting a fight with his own client, and not doing his job right. The vendor yells back, there is more yelling from all three of them, another one of our coworkers starts yelling, and it becomes one rowdy yelling spree. I don’t know how the situation was resolved, but everyone unanimously agrees that the vendor was a “crazy dog.”
