Today for lunch I had to meet with the other consultants and our rep from the contracting company. I had never met the rep and we ended up at tables near each other. It wasn’t until the other consultants showed up did we realize that we’d been practically sitting next to each other. Too funny and it just goes to show you how often I try to get out of those lunches.
Today’s lunch was a much better time than usual. Everyone had something to talk about and we didn’t have to resort to the weather. Thank goodness. Some of these lunches are painful for everyone involved.
One of the consultants has totally gone over to the client-side in that she lives and breathes everything client. It is really hard to see her as a consultant and not one of them. In fact, she always kind of bugs me because it is physically impossible for her to speak in regular English. She uses acronyms and corporate-speak like I use black pepper on a baked potato–which is A LOT. I also felt like she was “fishing” for information about the training team (she works in another section of our unit and I work on the training team). Fortunately for me, there wasn’t much I could tell her since I haven’t actually seen the training team in over a month…except for a few meetings at a local parking lot where I either drop off or pick up items from a co-worker I really haven’t seen anyone since early September. I guess the training team is so outside of the rest of the unit that any information about the team is welcomed. I just couldn’t play informant. Plus, I don’t think I could answer in terms she would understand anyway. WWATA, AA (what with all the acronyms, and all).