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Letter from the Editor, Spring & Summer 2006
As told to Kyra Worrell
(One dark and stormy night, just before 5:00 pm, I was finishing up work when a shadowy figure approached me, begging me to tell his story…)
I remember when QI first came to Financial Management. Quintana Improva – odd name. I think she might have been a foreign dame – it was all Greek to me.
She was looking for love in all the wrong places. She clearly needed my help. Drop dead gorgeous, but with those sad eyes – you’d of thought she’s seen too much. I might be a two-bit, dime-store detective, but even I knew what this gal needed. Listen, I says to her, check out our Kudos and the RQT Roundup. That’ll heal what ails ya. Little did I know, she was already on to me. She already knew this stuff – she’d been there, done that. And me, a chump, little did I know.
I look at her, waiting to hear her response, but she’s silent, just turns and walks out of my office and my life into the Seattle rain. I just had to follow her. I ran out after her, and said, hey, I got this little thing called Employment Practices Liability that I just got to show you. And this Debt Database, it’s something new, isn’t it? Put that in your Knowledge Worker pipe and smoke it, I says, and I got more in this bag of tricks – I got tools, prado charts and tools, I tell you!
Well, she took the articles, she took my whole bag of tricks, eyes down – and that’s when I knew we were not alone. I could feel someone’s eyes on us. I felt for my gun; all I pulled out was a fishbone. I turned around, and there he was—RQ Teasdale! That rat! That dirty rat! It turned out they were working together all along. She just slipped her arm into his, and off they went into the sunset: RQT and QI. I should have known.
So that was that. I headed back into the rain, into the shadows of the streets; made my way to the sanctuary of my office. Headed back to my desk and did the one thing any red-bloodied financial management man, woman or child would do in same situation as me—I turned on my computer, clicked on the email link to Directions and I read the rest of the articles. Maybe next time I’ll get the girl…but until then, I’ll just keep on telling my sad, sad tale.
The following articles can be found in this issue:
 Green Harvest
Farewell, My Spreadsheet
The World According to GLARP
The Mentor Always Rings Twice
The ODIN in the Tank
QI—The Manager
Cartoons—Themed Traveling Treats
Law and “Order”
Employment Practices Liability at UW
They Serve Customers, Don’t They?
The Big Sweat
The Knowledge-ease Falcon
The Savvy Travel Office
The Summer Event
I Wake Up Chatting
Kudos
RQT Roundup |
