Today With Patty – April 3, 2007

by Patty

I started my morning with coffee and Carolina Parent magazine. Cathy Ashby, the former editor, was a good friend, but I have decided that I am going to love the new editor, Crickett Gibbons, just as much. She is young and pretty, but I have decided not to hold that against her. Besides, she hails from Phoenix. We talked a lot about how interesting it is to manage twentysomethings, and I suggested she do an article called “Mama, Please Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Employees” and all the things parents do to create problem employees.

I have been driving with the top down, and the inside of my car is a lovely shade of yellow from all the pollen. Cannot wait to figure out how I am going to get that out. But it has been so nice that it is hard to complain, although I can usually find a way.

I had lunch at Tavola Rossa today. The food is so good there, I am amazed that it is not busier. Hmmm … maybe they need PR.

Tonight I am off to the Women’s Forum of North Carolina meeting and the Big Bad Ball committee. I do not know how I ever get my work done, because all I do is nonrevenue-producing activities.

Job hunting tip #5: Tattoos. First off, I do not even get this fascination with tattoos. I keep thinking about what that butterfly is going to look like when you are in the old folks home and your upper arm flesh makes you look like a flying squirrel. Sure, you are all taut and tight at 20, but gravity and age are a lethal combination that you cannot avoid. So I have a rule: No tattoos at MMI. It has been suggested that I might have an employee or two with one, and my position is that I better never know about it. So, if you are an applicant with tattoos – visible tattoos – do not every bother applying. And if you have a web and spider tattooed to your neck and part of your chin, PR might not be your field.

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