The Corporate Runs
The Inbox-OutboxFrom: "Judith Wheaton" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:05 PM Subject: Windows 2000 in the Build Lab Hi, George. Just wanted to make sure you and I were in sync over the upgrade to Windows 2000 in the build lab. As you know, we upgraded three of the six machines to Windows 2000 a few months ago. We did this in order to get around the hardware compatibility issues when we upgraded net cards. I just wanted to make sure we have the go-ahead to finish the upgrade for the other three machines. Okay by you? Judy -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Judith Wheaton" Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:45 PM Subject: RE: Windows 2000 in the Build Lab Doh! My bad. I was supposed to follow up with the boss on that one, wasn't I? Sorry about that. I'll ping him right away to make sure he approves, and then I'll get back to you. Thanks, Geo -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:47 PM Subject: Windows 2000? Hey boss, now that Windows 2000 has gone to manufacturing, don't you think it's time we put it onto all the build machines? Thanks, Geo -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:57 PM Subject: RE: Windows 2000? >>Hey boss, now that Windows 2000 has gone to manufacturing, >don't you think it's time we put it onto the build machines? Don't mean to bug you about this, Hank -- but the build lab really wants to know about installing Windows 2000 It seems the kernel team fixed that problem they were having. Waiting for word, Geo -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Hank W. Weiner" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:55 AM Subject: RE: RE: Windows 2000? sorry, can you fill me in on why we didn't install it until now? hww -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000? >sorry, can you fill me in on why we didn't install it until now? Um, because you never gave the go ahead. We asked you four months ago if we could install the beta, but you never really gave us a definitive answer -- and then we asked again in December, but you left on your annual end-of-the-year, month-long vacation before you gave us your answer. G -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:13 AM Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000? >sorry, can you fill me in on why we >didn't install it until now? >>Um, because you never gave the go ahead. We asked you >>four months ago if we could install the beta, but you >>never really gave us an answer -- and then we asked again in December, >>but you left on your annual end-of-the-year, month-long vacation >>before you gave us your answer. Hank, sorry to ping you again, but the guys in lab have been kind of looking for an answer to this one for a while. G -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Hank W. Weiner" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000? sorry, had to go on an emergency exec off-site yesterday. do you have any idea why I didn't approve the change over to windows 2000 in december? hww -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 8:05 AM Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000? >sorry, had to go on an emergency exec off-site yesterday. >do you have any idea why I didn't approve the change over >to windows 2000 in december? Well, it's not so much that you didn't approve or disapprove it. It was more like you never really gave us any indication what your feelings were one way or the other, and we didn't want to go against what your wishes might or might not have been. So I guess, no, I don't really know what you were or weren't thinking on this one, since you didn't really give any direction on this one, per se. Hope this helps, G -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Hank W. Weiner" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000? didn't track your last message. got to run. come by tomorrow morning. we'll discuss. hww -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000? >didn't track your last message. got to run. come by tomorrow >morning. we'll discuss. Will do! What time is good for you? G -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "AUTOMATED RESPONDER" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 5:02 PM Subject: OUT OF OFFICE NOTIFICATION: Hank W. Weiner THIS MESSAGE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY: PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND. The following recipient [Hank W. Weiner] did not receive the message called: "RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000?" because they are currently out of the office and have elected to refuse all incoming e-mail. Here is a personal message from the recipient: "hi! this is hank, and i'm going to be on a requirements-gathering trip off-shore, but i'll be back in the office on mon., feb. 14. unfortunately, i can't get any e-mail where i'll be. the good news is that if you have any problems, i insist you get in touch with my right-hand man, george slimmer. happy valentine's day! hww" -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:23 AM Subject: Windows 2000 again? Hi, Hank. This is your right-hand man. ;-) How was your trip? Anyway, while I hoped that we could finish this one up earlier, I was wondering if you had a chance to think over the Windows 2000 request? Thanks Geo -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Hank W. Weiner" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Thrusday, February 17, 2000 4:45 PM Subject: RE: Windows 2000 again? just catching up on e-mail and found this. remind me again: what's this one about? is this about that project in bldg. 7? have you seen the prototypes for what they are building over there? what a bunch of losers and clowns. i've never seen more wrong decisions in one product proposal in my life. hww -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Hank W. Weiner" Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:29 AM Subject: RE: RE: Windows 2000 again? >i've never seen more wrong decisions in one product proposal in my life. Funny you should mention "decisions," because the guys in the build lab are practically blocked until we tell them to upgrade to Windows 2000, so they could use a decision here. Thanks, G -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Hank W. Weiner" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 7:03 AM Subject: RE: RE: RE: Windows 2000 again? Priority: HIGH blocked! in the build lab? i'm super-concerned about this. how long has this situation been going on? why is this the first i'm hearing of it? do you have a damage assessment -- specifically, a schedule impact report? make sure to include long pole figures, overall goodness factors, and feature-merge contraction details. holy smokes. do you think i should contact marketing and give them a heads up that we've slipped? any suggestions on how i sell this one upstream? let's get together and brainstorm. i'll have maggie my admin book a conf. room at the gym for later this morning. clear your schedule, because we've got some serious strategizing to do if this is as bad as you say. how could you let this happen? don't let this out. i'm sure i can count on your discretion, because the clowns in bldg. 7 would love nothing more than to point at this as the excuse to kill our project. are we sure they don't have something to do with this? we aren't dependent on them in any way, are we? i should have seen this coming. on a totally different subject: isn't your review coming up? hww -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Maggie Sanyi (on behalf of Hank W. Weiner)" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 7:05 AM Subject: Strategy Meeting for Recover from Crisis in the Build Lab Event Location: Country Club Gym Conference Room 3B Event Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 Event Time: 9:30 AM Hello George! Hank has requested that you join him for an emergency conference at the Country Club Gym this morning to discuss how to recover from the current crisis in the Build Lab. Per his instructions, he'd like a full impact report. I've notified the gym that you will be going over there early, so they are expecting you. I highly recommend going at least three hours early, because it can take that long just to do color correction on the video conferencing system (Hank's requested the Far East distributors monitor the meeting, so look your best!). I've ordered in lunch just in case. I couldn't get the good sushi, but I think I can divert a shipment of Maine lobster that's due to arrive on the corporate campus around lunch. Keep your fingers crossed! :-) Thanks! Maggie x6502 -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "George Slimmer" To: "Maggie Sanyi" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:42 PM Subject: RE: Strategy Meeting for Recover from Crisis in the Build Lab Oh my GOSH! Maggie, I had no idea Hank would want to meet on such short notice! I just got in, because my whole team was at it straight through the weekend in a bug bash marathon, and we finally collapsed around 5:30 AM this morning. Is Hank still over at the gym? Should I head over there now?? I've left voice mail for you and him but neither of you seem to be around? Are you at the gym? If I don't hear from you in the next 15 minutes I'll just head over there. I look and feel like hell, but I don't know what else to do! Help! G -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Maggie Sanyi" To: "George Slimmer" Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 5:15 PM Subject: RE: RE: Strategy Meeting for Recover from Crisis in the Build There you are! We were looking everywhere for you. It turns out Hank threw his back out playing tennis at the gym right before the meeting and ending up getting an emergency massage that conflicted with your meeting. In the meantime, we managed to get a hold of Judith in the build lab, and she explained everything that was going on. While I've got you, Hank would like to accelerate the reviews of his direct reports and specifically singled you out. Could you come in tomorrow at 8:30 A.M. to take care of that? Thanks so much! Maggie :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Hank W. Weiner" To: Entire Product Division Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: Changes in the Division Priority: HIGH hi, everybody! it's your fearless leader here! just wanted to say a quick word about the great work you are all doing and let you know about some changes going on in the division. (then you can get back to your real jobs, hehe.) first, i want to take a moment to both recognize and thank george smiller for his contribution and leadership. george is moving on to work on some of the exciting new projects in bldg. 7. we wish him all the best. i'm thrilled to announce that judith wheaton, who until now headed up the build lab, will expand her duties to include management of the product. she brings formidable skills and a respectable dose of the new ideology that this company thrives on. these changes are effective immediately. hww -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
