HA!

[etakyma]

Part of my job is moderating/running a two-and-a-half-hour teleconference for about twenty/twenty-five people every two weeks. I've done this for literally *years.* And while the lineup of people involved has changed and grown over the years, I have stayed on through three different companies holding the contract for this particular client. I have not missed a teleconference since I took over as moderator, summer of 2003. That is SIX YEARS for those playing at home. Six years of every other week. For many many many of those years I had to schedule everything around the two week schedule - including getting ill. I've moderated the teleconference with laryngitis. With a fever of 102. Sick or otherwise not at work. Because for five of the last six years I've had no backup. And nobody who could take over if anything happened to me. Thank providence I didn't have to go in for surgery.

This particular part of my job is why I am so damned valuable to my client, and why I was one of the "key people" they wanted to go when they chose the new company for the contract.

The schedule for the next quarter is out, and I am about to miss my very first teleconference IN SIX YEARS because I am going to be on vacation. I get to have a vacation, because I have very capable backup now, with the company that currently holds the contract.

I can't wait.