I’ve never been so happy to see a train in my life.
I took the train up to Seoul today. I have work up here for the next 3 days-I’m grateful for it, it gave me a reason to leave the project in Busan and Jinhae.Never in the history of man have so many toiled so hard for such little useful result. The poor guys who work directly for the project manager are stuck-they are great souls who are being abused if you ask me. They have little recourse.
As I mentioned before, the project is a necessary one. However the guy running it just cannot figure out how to do what I call “bounding the problem”. Had he done that and done some load shedding he would have realized that the only thing that mattered was the final deliverable-a presentation to some high powered people and an action plan. That is not so hard-PROVIDED you lay the terms of work out at the start then not change them. This guy just cannot do that. I think he is dyslexic. He has the “ear of the master though” and no one has told him that he is full of you know what-myself included since my role is tertiary and I am not in charge of the project. Suffice it to say, I know it could be run better. But with each passing day my influence wanes-I’m out the door from this job this summer. Where to, is anybody’s guess at this point.
So I exercised my escape clause today. I’m glad I did, I just did not have the patience to keep watching the train run off the tracks. The ride up on the KTX was nice-I paid the extra money for First Class tickets and I am glad I did. I had a nice seat and until sunset the country side was interesting to see.
A little bit of an adventure getting to the hotel. The Taxi driver did not speak English and I don’t speak any Korean. The number on the side of the taxi that offered interpretation did not work. Finally was able to get a hold of the hotel operator who told the driver where he needed to go.
Up early tomorrow so its time for bed. Thank God and greyhound I am gone!