The Acer Guy

Hi everybody and welcome back to another very rare installment from the ever-so-slightly-hectic world of The Acer Guy.

In the four years I’ve been living online I’ve discovered that writing an article here is like preparing for a wedding. You have to know that “she’s the one” and that you want to go though with it of course, yet every now and again, when you’re under the kind of pressure we are day in-day out to satisfy her never-ending needs, you often experience first hand that love has some wonderful ups and colossal downs.

Then you have to think about your relatives. Can you invite them all? Will that stuffy old aunt you can’t stand who lives in the house on top of the world get offended if you don’t send her at least an invite? Probably.

Finally, the guests and the menu. How many of your mates (and hers) do you want to turn up and how do you choose which go in the “yes” basket, and which fall in the “no”? The problem here is that if you write about the latest hot products (great menu), Google loves you and sends you quite a lot of people. If you write about your week (packed lunch), well… only the most loyal of friends will come.

OK. This morning I’m in the mood, but it’s more out of the love for my mates and a few relatives than anything else. Any of you who’ve been following the often quite hilarious conversations that go on over on the Acer Guy Facebook page will know that the past two weeks have been manic.

I’ve discovered a bunch of new friends including Daniel, Massinissa, Kurucz, Josh and Travis, and we’ve made the world a happier place because, well, go and find out for yourselves.

I’m also doing this for my relatives and “professional” spouse. This week I borrowed the worldwide human resource director for an hour to find out how to initiate three projects – all of which affect The Acer Guy in one way or another – and I rediscovered that patience and understanding you get when you’re in the company of family. Thank-you again, Domenico.

Then on Thursday the Marketing & Brand VP, Gianpiero Morbello, came to see how we were getting on with one of the many projects in our collective in-box and gave one of the most passionate overviews of Acer’s strategic vision I have ever heard shortly before he – rightly – bollocked us for overstepping the corporate mark for the silliest of errors (not mine, thankfully!!).

They’re magical moments these and quite simply they make the world go round, so thanks to all of you for taking the time to make it all flow a little better.

Two things came out of these past two weeks:

The first – and most important – is that the causes section is going to be a lot harder to set up than it looks. Technology makes raising money for worthy causes easy but the tax man has another view on money movements so I’m going to have to take a few extra precautions to make sure my house doesn’t get repossessed simply because I wanted to help. Also there has to be – and is – a better way of getting Acer involved in these projects and at this level, you don’t go in with an idea on the back of a fag box…

The other interesting thing is that the place of these conversations has shifted and that’s mainly because of the time available. Trust me: making a comment or post on Facebook is a lot easier than writing this so if you want to hang out with us as we joke and rant our way through the week, click on the link below.

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