Reentry

Things you can do in the branch office near the Rockies:
1. Have eggs benedict over morning meeting and have it charged to expense report
2. Have an M&Ms bowl that gets refilled every day
3. Be treated like a rockstar when you present reports and ask questions
4. Ask for a shipment and have it delivered the next day
And those were just a few of my favorite things
When you are in branch office, you float around, meeting people, having things done instantly and quickly. You acquire a sort of elevated cloud around you
And
then smalltownamericaoffice pulls you back in where:
1. asking for my color printer to be fixed requires 5 emails, 2 messages and 1 humiliating begging session with mean n crude evangelist IT.
2. where strutting around because you just came back from branch office is simply not tolerated
3. where Development concots elaborate tricks on IT involving kitchen sink that explodes
4. where talking about branch office makes old boss sigh to old big boss about feeling like Luke Skywalker listening to Darth Vader about the dark side
Reentry causes friction, burns a portion of you but when the turbulence is over, it's so good to be home.