December 10, 2005

• Look who came to town and a new job? Who woulda thunk it…

  Let’s see, just a ton of things that have happened to me over the last week.

  For starters, looking for jobs while on a job (albeit not at
  the job that you are currently at, because that’s just not kosher or
  anyother kind of meat) is always tough.  Personally for me, it
  gets depressing. My minset is that, if I’m at a job, why should I look
  for a new one… I just got to where I am now and I’m happy. 
  However, I see the other side of the coin as well. We never stop
  changing and I know that it is always good to keep one’s options open.

  Like with Company #1: It was a great job. About 2 months later, I had
  to get out of it because the company didn’t want to get legal software
  after my repeated asking and telling of the consequences. That and the
  fact they wanted me to be a cold-caller with a script. It was at a Real
  Estate company.

  I was supposedly fired, but do to the fact that I had all documentation
  stating my job description, the fact that it had the cold-caller script
  that I was supposed to say on it and in my job description, I was more
  than happy to turn that into the government agency that Company #1
  hired me.

  Company #2: It was a great job as well.Good people, work was fairly
  steady. Boss was an old friend of mine from back in the grade school
  days. Things were great for 6 months and then my boss realized that the
  staff liked me more than him and started to make my life a living hell.
  But I stuck with it. Call it stubborness or the fact that I wanted to
  piss him off so much that I kept doing my job to the best of my
  ability, without any confrontations violent or otherwise. But, I did
  use the email and asked for clarification on issues that I wanted to
  make sure that I did things the way he wanted them done. That way I
  could say: “I did it the way you specified and reitterated to you
  exactly what you said…”

  I was let go because the last eight months or so, we had just been
  butting heads, he would go to the owners at the time and I would keep
  doing my job. Then one day I was told to come into his office, he said
  that he was letting me go. When I asked for a reason, he said that he
  didn’t have to give me one. He also wanted me to sign a piece of paper,
  I just got him to photocopy it and I handed in my phone and was
  escorted out of the building to the dismay of the staff, they didn’t
  realize that I had been let go.

  Apparently he had been on my computer, went into my email and gathered
  over 6 months worth of email and used that against me, etc…. Needless
  to say I was glad to go, but I wanted to go on my own terms.  That
  company now has gone through four IT Technicians and now they have my
  ex boss and two others working for him… go figure.  Still a
  great company. That was in the greenhouse industry.

  Company #3 and #4 have been documented already on this xlog so I won’t
  rehash the old siren bit and go into the details… you all know about
  it…

  Which brings us to Company #5… It is a great company. The people are
  good. The work isn’t challenging. My boss is amazing as a person. He’s
  funny. Loves to play video games. The other person I work with is a
  cool guy. Love to play video games. They are all good people to work
  with. No one is threatened by each other. Everyone works extremely well
  together. It is the best work atmosphere that I have been in siince I
  have started over seven or eight years ago…

  So when I went for a written test, for a possible Company #6, 30
  multiple choice questions. I was the first to complete them. I had to
  deal with 5 other people there: two of them female, two of them male of
  a visible minority and myself, male caucassion.

  A few days ago I received a call on my answer machine they want a second interview…

  I don’t know why but I have mixed feelings about it. Sure it is more
  money. It is steady full time hours. The pension is great. But like all
  jobs, is there security? Who knows…

  As for who came to town, my dad did from the big city of the T.Dot. We
  had dinner last night at a Steak House, and not just any steak house,
  Ye Ol’ Steak House… been around for over 30 years. Excellent meal.

  Then I drove him to his friends house who I’ve known for as long as
  I’ve met them. Their daughter apparently played World of Warcraft…
  and you know my ears immeidately perked up at that lol… So I went in,
  showed her how to get a new interface through Curse-gaming.com and I
  realized that it was MC night. She hadn’t been to MC, so I hoped on,
  asked to be put on the list and got to show her Ragnaros… by fiber be
  purged! She was so amazing at it

  So amazing that she called her boyfriend and said non-stop that I was
  an amazing player that had all epic pieces, trinkets coming out my ass
  and soo many rings that I didn’t have enough fingers.  Then she
  got to see the full fight of Ragnaros and I took many many screenshots.
  We finished at 1am EST. Got to love the West coast servers.

  I have to go back and hook up their wireless router to that computer so
  she can take a full account of the game instead of the dialup she has
  been used to.

  I won’t be able to play Onyxia tonight… or maybe I will try But no BWL for me Oh well, what can you do.

  Let me know what you think about the job situation, I am curious to hear your thoughts, that I am.

  Vx Out

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