a couple things:
- My company is very security conscious.
- I don’t have a company issued smartphone and they won’t let me sync my iPhone to my work email/calendar
- My name is attached as an IT resource on a project that won’t die.
It’s been around for about a year and last month we stopped work and went back to gathering requirements. The project sponsor is on the west coast and he scheduled a meeting last week after 5pm Central time. So I forwarded the meeting agenda to my personal email and created a reminder on my calendar with the conference call bridge info.
A follow up to that meeting is scheduled for next week. And somehow my personal email address shows up on the meeting invite (Microsoft Exchange will update the ICS if it’s forwarded, learned that today). And this follow up meeting is one of those where we rehash everything we talked about previously but this time with the executive sponsors and the budget approvers on the call. So there was a moment of “who’s gmail account is this?” happening this morning amongst the most important people in the company. “that’s me. I don’t have a blackberry and didn’t want to be in the office until 7pm on a Friday.” I’ll be so glad when this project is finished up.
