Category: sick

I went to an IT conference today and babysitted the company booth when my collegues went to watch interesting talks. This meant that for the most part I was reading the magnificent Kevin Mitnick’s “Ghost in the Wires”. Sometimes people would come up and I’d talk to them about the company and gave them free goodie bags our marketing department prepared for the event. We also had a lot of popcorn that we gave away in cups. Not that popcorn is in any way relevant to IT security, which the conference was about, but we had it anyways and it was moderately successful.

Other yesterday’s sweaty experience I knew my cold would probably get worse, and of course it happened. I couldn’t pull out though so I went and got many people sick. It only occurred to me after five hours that I shouldn’t shake hands, but that would have meant more interaction and telling people whose hand is already stretched out that I shouldn’t do this, so I just quietly mumbled in my head and touched people anyways. So if people who went to the conference and came to our booth report sick tomorrow or next week to their boss, I might have a role in that.

Meh, I’ll just dodge responsibility. No one who went reads this blog.