I actually have a valid excuse for the past week and half of neglect — which is rare enough to deserve notice. My rock solid work schedule has been fiddled with by higher-ups than usually do such fiddling so that I can participate in an ‘interesting and exciting new initiative’ that’s going on at work. It’s extremely strange for a lowest level employee to get any positive attention from management where I work, or at any such workplace. Stranger still, this program I’m participating in is actually interesting and exciting, particularly compared to my normal duties. To such a point that I filed away the up-to-date resumes that I typically carry with me, out of long habit, to make room for the flood of paperwork this entails.

I’m not going to go into details, not out of secrecy or anything, but simply due to the amount of things I would have to explain in order for this new change to seem as significant as it is. Suffice it to say that if this goes company-wide, the front line grunts of the company would basically disappear, replaced with more empowered customer relations agents who could serve any and every need a customer might have. It remains to be seen if this new breed of super-agent would have any corresponding increase in pay, though…