Becoming Amélie

[Julie]

 

I guess, I'm turning into Amélie, a fictional character, who's living her dreams :) That's crazy, but I thought, that the workplace can't be a dreaming place. Yes, it can.  Just started to realize, that my co-workers and especially the lead team are half-fictional characters. Very stereotipical but anyway. We have a Gypsy queen, young Russian mafioso, older Italian mafioso (kind of a Godfather), an elegant French guy, two hot Latinos, a church choire singer, pot smoker from Amsterdam, a suicidal guy, a basketball player, a marathon runner, a mad mathematician (kind of John Nash from Beautiful mind) and many others.

Of course, my boss is a great forecaster. As she's from Romania, she's Gypsy queen, she sees the future looking a your marketing plan palm, doesn't she? The mad mathematician doesn't like the Gypsy queen, she relies too much on her experience paranormal abilities, while he's trying to find the formula to explain the market fluctuations to describe the universe. He also doesn't like the suicidal guy and a pot smoker, but he admires Italian mafioso. Or, maybe, he's afraid as normally you should be afraid of the Godfather. Italian mafioso likes everyone as we are team family and expects we're doing the same. This is what Russian mafioso aspires to be. Both the matematician and the Gypsy queen don't like each other, but they create a team to go against the pot smoker, when they believe that he can harm the business tries to change the universe. They usually win. A suicidal guy thinks he can't influence the lead team decisions the world would be a better place without him. He would withdraw completely, but he can't, because a tall, depressed girl a baskeball player is reporting to him, so he pretends to be strong at least for her. One of the Latinos is coming to me regularly saying: "When the hell will  you merge the reporting tools?" "Ola, chica. Tiempo para una Siesta". He doesn't have an easy life as the church choire singer is trying to work out the perfect reporting tool with his help to turn him into her team of believers. Her faith and discipline against his lack of discipline. We will see, who wins. Another Latino (together with the pot smoker) is reporting to an elegant French guy, who thinks that business presentations should be visually perfect the world needs more beauty and elegance. The three are so different that I keep wondering, how they work together. Their alliance is unbreakable. Finally, the marathon runner is the only sane person here. He doesn't care about anything. He doesn't understand many things. He's a Forrest Gump an IT programmer, so he influences the most important decisions, not even being aware of it.

 

Isn't this great? The funny thing is that it makes me so happy and so confident, when I have to present something. I don't understand, why the others are afraid of the lead team. Why should I be afraid? I'm not presenting to the lead team, but to a Gypsy queen, mafia, Latinos and other fictional characters.