Today was my first day on the bench and it felt good to be back at the office. I got to say hello to the recruiter dude who is really nice and there are a few people who work at my company that I ran into in the past. Catching up with everyone was fun even though being on the bench is not fun. I am hoping that I won't be on the bench for long since my manager has talked to me about a few things that are going on.
Predictably I saw the sales guy who thought nothing of extending me on a project where I wasn't happy and was being harassed by the project manager. And, as I suspected he merely said hello to me as I walked past in the hallway. I don't have anything good to say about this guy except that he taught me a very valuable lesson and that is that people should not be treated as inventory to earn a dollar. He also taught me that I should be careful about giving people the benefit of the doubt. Not exactly a lesson that I wanted to learn but a lesson none-the-less.
I am amazed at how I've been able to escape becoming a cynic. There have been a lot of times when I've given people the benefit of the doubt and have been disappointed. But, I am stupid in that I look back on a bad time and try to find something good in the misery. I would rather remember the good stuff than let the bad crap eat me alive. It's a "Mary Poppins" view of the world (as one client CIO told me), but it's the way I chose to survive the bad stuff.
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