Art mirrors Life - Work mirrors Dilbert
I walked into the Los Aneles office of ETC this morning to a perfectly unexplainable moment. It was an art installation, it was Dilbert, it was life.
If you have not heard yet - you will soon - there is a changing of the guard in the sales department out west. I was the regional Sales manager in LA for 8 years - taking over from Mike Griffith in 1995. Tim Guion took over from me in 2003. Tomorrow, Randy Pybas takes over from Tim to lead the western slaes territory onward.
Tim isn't going far - just downstairs in fact - to join the newly formed MPA lighting as part of the rep team in LA. Yes - simultaneous to all of this Tom Pincu and Bill Moodie - our longtime and incredibly successful reps in Los Angeles are retiring. Lots of change in the west - next it's an earthquake!
Well - the joke around here has been that the guys downstairs are just going to saw a hole in the floor and drop Tim through when the time is right! So this is what we found this morning at his desk.
Yes - its true. The sawing has begun!
Not only was this funny! It was very well done. Alan Falkner - one of of the fine field service techs in LA created this work of art complete with a CD player hidden in the room that plays a sawing sound on a ten minute loop! Alan - there are guys out there charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for this kind thing. You should consider a change of work.
In all seriousness - I wish Randy the best of luck in his new role and I'm happy to have him at ETC. It will be refreshing to spend some time getting to know him. And to Tim - I know you will be great downstairs as part of our excellent rep team. When I asked Tim when he was moving downstairs he pointed to the saw blade and said "as soon as this is done."
David