This just in (December 19th, 1999).

For the past year now I've been assigned to the systems efforts because Pat thought, as my background was in systems and I was over rated to do what I had been doing, I should be

doing things like take care of the Y2K "bug". I can't wait for the day one, year two thousand realization that nothing happened.

Additionally, I was to change our communication media from one to another, a resting

place of higher quality and function, integrated, sending messages to people to do "things".

My work of the past seven years has been erased with the implementation of Work Systems redesign and I need to get away from the hostile higher ups. Their theory of work seems

to be to get more work from fewer and fewer people. Next year, with increasing volumes while reducing people, no other changes would be made.

I wrote this to describe them, “You can't make people do what they don't want to do”.

The Photochemicals Worldwide effort came up again, I guess as a result of Tim Cutlers trip to England to straighten out the Oscar and Kodak/Manugistics (no kidding) relationships. We were, I'd overheard, "back on the schedule if that Oscar thing was successfully worked out".

We wait, yet again.