Tom Visits Redwood City
Wednesday, April 18th, 2001
Yokayama
Redwood City, California
  
All Photos © 2001 Ting Vogel
 
Tom Lasho is visiting us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a few days, so we decided to have our IS Lunch that week. IS stood for Information Systems originally when I started at Tumbleweed, but now, it stands for Information Services. When my manager, Jones, came on board, he wanted to change the name of the department to be Information Technology, but we are the Operations portion of IT and want a name that distinguishes us, so we kept IS. Information Technology just seemed so formal! It was also a form of rebellion manifesting itself in this little detail. Once a month, we have an IS Lunch. With all the cutbacks, the IS Lunches remained a tradition - a tradition which precedes Jones, so we get to keep it.

Tom is the IT manager in Ann Arbor. He has a "dotted line" reporting to me on the operations side and reporting to Jones on the other stuff. Most of Tom's job is in operations, so what remains of the "other stuff" has always puzzled us somewhat. We have a theory that Jones has to make sure as many people report to him as the number reporting to me. Ah! The struggle for power! :-)



 

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