I’ve been incommunicado today, giving advanced training on our wonderful product to our other sales engineers. I’m flying without a net, just letting the attendees tell me what they want to learn. I’m having a blast doing it, too. It’s so refreshing to teach something new rather than the same old “introducing our product” spiel. And these guys are smart so I don’t have to belabor the small stuff. They can figure it out.
I’m getting an early start on training tomorrow in an effort to get these guys out of here before Tropical Storm Ernesto pays us a visit Thursday. Sure, the winds will be piddily by the time it gets here but there will still be the threat of flooding and tornadoes. In a way it reminds me of the first training I did when started at $LAST_COMPANY. It was held in the fall of 2003 when the last tropical storm came through Raleigh. We were in the Clarion Hotel in downtown Raleigh: the big round hotel on Hillsborough Street. I’ll never forget the feeling of standing on that balcony and hearing the wind howl through that cylindrical building.
Oh, and another thing. I took the guys back to the hotel after dinner and pulled up right behind a satellite truck for the The Weather Channel. You know if you see these guys show up you’re in for some wild weather!