1. Work/Programming CHANGE! In the “Good News” category. It’s now official so I feel okay with announcing it. I now have a job after the end of this year!! Starting October 1 (and continuing for the foreseeable future) I’m now a “Revenue Platform Systems Engineer” (Big fancy title that means my department is changing… and that I’ll be working on…
Category: Five Things
Friday Five: Non-dieting weight loss
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Not much going on at work since I’ve been back. While I was gone I had a lot of emails that essential read “OMG THE WORLD IS ON FIRE…
Friday Five – God is an iron
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. On Tuesday I completed my part of the multi-departmental big huge giant “make work” project. My part at least seems to have gone off without even a whimper. On…
Friday Five: Pre-Wedding Edition
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. A lot of make-work at the moment. Some big-wig came up with an “this must be done before the end of the month” task and I’m pretty certain they…
Five Things: Smashing Looming Deadlines
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. I finished my adopted project early on Thursday last week but then someone else had to deploy it (I was on PTO on Friday and sick on Monday and…
Five Things: Chill-axing
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Adopted project is zipping along. I may even finish it early. It’s actually been kind of fun. Like playing a game with schitzphrentic rules where I’m not allowed to…
Five Things: Little fish
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Pet projects deployed. This time there were no problems. Good to see them off and running. New adopted projects took a really really long time to get the environment…
Friday Five: Good News!
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Two more people in a nearby department were laid off this week. I spoke to a manager person and this was attributed to budget cuts. Still.. lay offs staggered…
Five Things: Tick Tick Tick
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. One note of concern: last week the company laid off all of the System Administrators in the San Francisco office(probably 8 people that I know of). This does not…
Five Things: Catching up
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Well ok.. there was a little change. A few weeks ago, while I was out on PTO, I received an email from the CTO asking me what I know…