Art imitating life

I was watching that show that I can't think of now - it's got a lot of SNL people and it's like Third Rock or something like that. Anyway, it's a show about NBC comedy writers or summat. Well today's episode poked fun at Six Sigma. And I found this funny because my company is big on Six Sigma but I also found it odd because it's not (imo) all that prevalent in the working world where most people have heard of it enough for it to be a running joke. Well, a lot of the principles of Six Sigma were mentioned and I found it humorous and a bit of an inside joke.

At the end of the episode, Alec Baldwin's character is carrying on about how one of the writers embarassed him with executives..From Fairfield..Connecticut...from G.E.! Then I howled because my company is chock full of former G.E. executives and that would explain the Six Sigma influence. Suddenly, I feel I have something in common with employees of NBC.

Another core competency of my company and G.E. - the Blackberry. I was told when we went to them, "They are big on Blackberry's. Every executive is required to have one." I successfully dodged that bullet - largely because I'm not an executive. But I lost the battle today - guess my boss had enough of my Out of Office notices that "I will be checking email on a limited basis.." because I'm in so many meetings and traveling between four offices on a daily basis. He requested I upgrade my business phone to a blackberry. The Telecom department already ordered it and the synch to my laptop is already in coordination with the PC Help Desk so... my leash just got longer yet tighter.

Today though was a very good day. Guess I can't complain. Well I can, but I won't.