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so I just spent a week at training, learning about things that are supposed to make me a better manager or whatever.

so I learned a bunch. neat.

I think another major point for brining everyone from all over the world to train at the same place is to expand everyone's global network.

this is accomplished by forcing them into groups made up of people from different countries, making sure that they can handle cultural differences, and then encouraging them to drink. a lot.

this is all well, and good, but I find it amazing how easily I can work with people for extended periods without really using their name. and then when I have to use their name I struggle to find their name tag.

also, it doesn't help that my roommate from my current project was out here with me, and he's not much help when it comes to temperance. in fact, he was more of an encouraging factor to get "black out drunk"

so that's what usually happened - every night - after dinner and before training... this week was mostly rooting for the pistons get to the eastern conference finals and watching the western conference fight themselves to death... all that on top of getting wasted. we made good acquiantences with the bartenders btw - so much that we ended up drinking with them last night.

in anycase... if I met anyone during the period after dinner and before the next morning, chances are, I did not remember what your name was. the fact is, though, that for some reason, everyone else has a memory like a steel trap - or they just don't drink as much (which I'm thinking is possible, although not quite likely given the group of people with whom we work) and painfullly brings up the details of how badly I made an ass out of myself the night before. fortunately, those antics are immediately erased by the next night's foolishness... and I don't have quite big enough an ego to think that anyone will really remember anything for much longer than a few days after returning to their "normal" lives in their own countries.

but, for the record. I convinced a number of people that I was still 18 and from not the US. I did this by using a crappy non-descript accent that could only be used on americans or asians. anyone from a european country or from australia or south africa could easily see through the non-accent that I have. it was easier just to pretend that I had a stutter (which made everyone feel sorry for me for about a day, until I revealed that I'm an ass and didn't really have a speech impediment.)

hey. I get bored easily.

really.

so I need to find ways to make myself laugh. and laughing at people who look at me in confusion is quite funny.

but hey.

that's just me.