There was a division-wide "all-hands" meeting today. When our whole division gets together like that, it's a big deal. I'm not sure how many people that is, but it involves long lines of huge buses taking people from the main campus to Qwest Stadium, home of the Seahawks, in downtown Seattle.
I didn't go. We've had two other big meetings, one for Server Feedback Systems (about 250 people) and one for Windows Server (about 2200 people), each of which is a subset of the division. Instead, I was in the office getting an incredible amount of work done with few distractions. Only the vendor developers, who don't go to employee events like that, and our internal customers from other divisions were around, the latter only on the phone or email. OK, there were a couple of other full-time employees who skipped out on it, but they seemed to be also enjoying the lack of distractions.
The all-hands was also all-day. It's interesting how the team can set a tight schedule, not knowing that an all-day event will be set by a vice president, but when that schedule is missed, few remember the days lost to that kind of stuff. No matter. I've been to others like this and I think I ended up more satisfied not going this time. Alone in the office is sometimes just what the doctor ordered.
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