Month: March 2004

The Microsoft Exchange Serv­er is whack today at work, so no one has access to email or their cal­en­dars and sched­ules. It is a bit of a has­sle because peo­ple don’t have all of the infor­ma­tion that they need, but it has also cre­at­ed a sub­tly dif­fer­ent atmos­phere that is a wel­come change. Peo­ple are actu­al­ly talk­ing to each oth­er, hav­ing con­ver­sa­tions, orga­niz­ing through face-to-face instead of the imper­son­al­i­ty of email. While it seems like most of us wel­come the chance to actu­al­ly hear a voice and bond with each oth­er, there is still a bit of awk­ward­ness, at least on my part. i find myself a lit­tle hes­i­tant to make eye con­tact, and more con­scious of my com­port­ment. there is no water cool­er to chat by here and cubes are divi­sion­ary to say the least, but today at least i have some human con­tact at work.