JOHN IS WEIRD TOO

Tonight, we were let out of work after just a little more than 2 hours. John Dollinger, our manager, said it was because Tony Parker, the owner, felt we were talking to much to each other. That may or may not be true but what I found odd was the smile on John's face and the obvious tone of enjoyment as he told us this. Maybe he was glad to get off early?

LEE IS BIZARRE

I went to the LTI office this PM to meet with Lee and get my key card to the building, or so I thought. Lee was very curious about what I meant when I requested "unrestricted access" to the PC I would be using and I tried to explain that I might need to install some software and I wanted to make sure I could do that. What Lee was really concerned about was getting another visit from the Secret Service.

Here's what happened. I had been posting on AOL the phrase "impeach or assassinate: the only real choice." That's from an ANn Coulter book about Clinton and I was trying to ensnare BushBots into expressing outrage and then ask whether they were also outraged about Coulter. Two years ago this March I got a visit from 2 Secret Service agents who wanted to know about me because of those posts. (Details here, here, here and here) The agents did interview people who knew me, including Lee.

Lee apparently is VERY concerned that I will damage LTI if I post something inflammatory although when he first mentioned this to me, I didn't pick up on how concerned he was. Today he changed his position on my access to the PC and told me that I couldn't be in the programming room by myself! When we first spoke, he said I could come and go as I please and this week he wrote that he would get me a building key card so I could take cigarette breaks after 5 PM.

I'm puzzled by the abrupt change in attitude.