Uncommon sense

Posted by: Mary McDonald on Wednesday September 23, 2009

New nGeneers are always invited to share their early impressions of life within the nGenverse, but in the spirit of full disclosure, I must ‘fess up: I already knew and liked these people. Some of us worked together in our long-ago ad agency days and more recently during my freelance writing career, a great gig I would only have left for an even better one. This is it, and this is how it looks from here:

Usually, when three or more people hang together with any frequency, you may as well make room for those sides of personalities you’d rather not even see, much less sit next to. Here, though, egos aren’t simply checked at the door — they apparently don’t even make the morning commute. That’s what happens when processes are shaped around people, honesty is the only policy, and no one feels threatened by turf wars, blame games or other bullshit skirmishes that get in the way of almost everything good. No weird filters are needed to know what people really mean, because the air stays clean.

Am I painting a rosy scene because I’m bucking for a raise already? Nah. (Timing is everything.) Is life here perfect? Of course not. (There’s the whole coffee consumption thing, for instance: We can’t possibly be meeting the RDA for an office. Weird.) But things make a boatload of sense, the music’s great, the work is challenging, the group is diverse and the future has a nice sheen to it.

Watch this space. It’s a good one.

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