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Birthday update
Aug. 13th, 2008 09:40 amHaaaaappy Birthday toooooo Meeeeeee!
Or something.
So. Fun times. May since I last updated, huh?
Well, work has been busy. We had this huge migration project, most of which was finished by June. I volunteered to teach Entourage 2008 classes (and got a nice temporary pay raise, on top of the authorized overtime) which I had to develop myself (hence, the overtime)
The SOK camping trip fell right in the middle of that in early June, but since I'd put in for the time off last year, I felt that work could just deal. Which it did. And the camping trip, was per usual, spectacular.
But when I got back, I sort of fucked up in triplicate - didn't finish about 7 things over the course of a week, and a coworker had to clean up after me. I was just tired, even after the camping trip, and it sort of showed. So I was told to get my act together (which I did) before I took over HMC duties for the coworker heading for a cruise in Scotland.
Which sucked. Three weeks of trying to do two jobs really wasn't fun. My ticket count climbed to 47 before K got back, and only yesterday did it slide under 30.
And then on top of all that, the Dept apparently screwed the pooch and got themselves $3 million in the hole. And decided to layoff our webmaster and one of our IT peoples (and a couple others, but they had no immediate effect on me). T, the webgal, immediately got a new position (one with outside funding) and a raise, but part of that raise is because she's still doing most of her old job, since they didn't seem to realize that hey, she does actual work. And C, who does almost all of our ordering (including ordering the student workers around) is still out of luck. He finally got an interview (he's taking a 'sick' day today to do that), but he's not a happy camper. They've given him until September, but still.
And in the middle of all that, not 3 hours before we were informed of the layoffs, I was poking around Wizards of the Coast's site looking for 4th Ed information and decided to apply for a job instead. It's one of those things that seemed perfect for me, and... well, we'll see.
The first phone interview was with HR, and they didn't seem to want to pay me even what I'm making now. So I sort of shelved the idea. But then the hiring manager wanted to talk to me, and we had a nice hour-long phone conversation, and he seemed really enthusiastic. 'Salary is negotiable.' And it amused me how much they were pushing the other benefits. So I had an in-person technical interview last Tuesday, and it was the roughest one I've ever done.
I arrived very early, more than content to fill out paperwork and then sit and knit, so I was fairly calm going in. 5 guys around a table (and yes, all guys) - verbal potshots as they came in, nothing I'm not used to. I was rather pleased that it was the entire group there, too, not just the manager making a decision; seems like more of a team environment. So one PC guy had 10 pages of questions he'd fire at me, in between the ones coming from the hiring manager flipping from sticky note to sticky note in his stack of Mac books. The other three mostly watched and listened, with a few questions here and there.
I think I did well - I could answer almost all of what they asked, save for not explaining the theory of DHCP, though yes, I'd used it, and could mention a third type. And I kind of looked at one guy funny when he asked me how to set up a dial up connection on a Mac. "Um, I don't? Because they don't even make them with modems anymore!"
But I haven't heard from them yet. I'll send a prodding email today, see what sort of timeline they might give me on making a decision.
I've been quieter than normal about this in guild because Kodoir's applying for a different job there, and I don't want to steal his thunder. I'd love for him to move out to WA, and his mentioning his application to Wizards is what got me poking around the Jobs section in the first place.
Today I'm having lunch with a friend, and checking out the Olympus Spa up in Lynnwood (apparently they have free admission for your birthday) I feel like I need more time off though - work is uncomfortable lately and I think Wizards or no, I need to find something new. I'm not looking forward to September when my workload will increase.
Or something.
So. Fun times. May since I last updated, huh?
Well, work has been busy. We had this huge migration project, most of which was finished by June. I volunteered to teach Entourage 2008 classes (and got a nice temporary pay raise, on top of the authorized overtime) which I had to develop myself (hence, the overtime)
The SOK camping trip fell right in the middle of that in early June, but since I'd put in for the time off last year, I felt that work could just deal. Which it did. And the camping trip, was per usual, spectacular.
But when I got back, I sort of fucked up in triplicate - didn't finish about 7 things over the course of a week, and a coworker had to clean up after me. I was just tired, even after the camping trip, and it sort of showed. So I was told to get my act together (which I did) before I took over HMC duties for the coworker heading for a cruise in Scotland.
Which sucked. Three weeks of trying to do two jobs really wasn't fun. My ticket count climbed to 47 before K got back, and only yesterday did it slide under 30.
And then on top of all that, the Dept apparently screwed the pooch and got themselves $3 million in the hole. And decided to layoff our webmaster and one of our IT peoples (and a couple others, but they had no immediate effect on me). T, the webgal, immediately got a new position (one with outside funding) and a raise, but part of that raise is because she's still doing most of her old job, since they didn't seem to realize that hey, she does actual work. And C, who does almost all of our ordering (including ordering the student workers around) is still out of luck. He finally got an interview (he's taking a 'sick' day today to do that), but he's not a happy camper. They've given him until September, but still.
And in the middle of all that, not 3 hours before we were informed of the layoffs, I was poking around Wizards of the Coast's site looking for 4th Ed information and decided to apply for a job instead. It's one of those things that seemed perfect for me, and... well, we'll see.
The first phone interview was with HR, and they didn't seem to want to pay me even what I'm making now. So I sort of shelved the idea. But then the hiring manager wanted to talk to me, and we had a nice hour-long phone conversation, and he seemed really enthusiastic. 'Salary is negotiable.' And it amused me how much they were pushing the other benefits. So I had an in-person technical interview last Tuesday, and it was the roughest one I've ever done.
I arrived very early, more than content to fill out paperwork and then sit and knit, so I was fairly calm going in. 5 guys around a table (and yes, all guys) - verbal potshots as they came in, nothing I'm not used to. I was rather pleased that it was the entire group there, too, not just the manager making a decision; seems like more of a team environment. So one PC guy had 10 pages of questions he'd fire at me, in between the ones coming from the hiring manager flipping from sticky note to sticky note in his stack of Mac books. The other three mostly watched and listened, with a few questions here and there.
I think I did well - I could answer almost all of what they asked, save for not explaining the theory of DHCP, though yes, I'd used it, and could mention a third type. And I kind of looked at one guy funny when he asked me how to set up a dial up connection on a Mac. "Um, I don't? Because they don't even make them with modems anymore!"
But I haven't heard from them yet. I'll send a prodding email today, see what sort of timeline they might give me on making a decision.
I've been quieter than normal about this in guild because Kodoir's applying for a different job there, and I don't want to steal his thunder. I'd love for him to move out to WA, and his mentioning his application to Wizards is what got me poking around the Jobs section in the first place.
Today I'm having lunch with a friend, and checking out the Olympus Spa up in Lynnwood (apparently they have free admission for your birthday) I feel like I need more time off though - work is uncomfortable lately and I think Wizards or no, I need to find something new. I'm not looking forward to September when my workload will increase.
