Artistic reasons or not, I'd like to see Chapelle stalk the freakin' painter.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Lysana!

Congrats to the Wolframs!

Yeah, I was just spoiled for figure skating by stupid Yahoo "breaking news".

Of course, I just had to go spoil myself.

In onlyspecialtome news, I had a nap today! I am very pleased with myself. And Isaac stood on his own for about 3 seconds. He's very pleased with himself.

And dang, I want to set up a flickr account or something to show off his waving picture. But I'm not sure I can do it while he's crawling around my toes.

So, the good news is, I still have a job.

The bad news is, it's a crappy job.

They've decided to move the help desks for the various locations to one of our location. Currently the three of us rotate who handles the help desk from week to week. Starting in mid-March, 1 of us will be a full-time technician and the other 2 will become permanent help desk staffers. I will be one of the latter. The CIO's goal is for 95% of all trouble tickets to be handled by the help desk, without having to dispatch a technician to the user's desk. Meaning, I'll be chained down to a desk from 8 to 5 every day. It will also be a desk shared by 2 other people and out in the open, so expect me to become very dark gray once this goes into effect.

I took a job 8 years ago as a PC technician, which meant physically going out and fixing stuff. I enjoy "getting my hands dirty". Answering the phones has been bad enough when it's only 1 week out of 3 and I've got the ability to transfer them to a cellphone when I need to run and fix a problem physically.

I am very unhappy about this turn of events.

But, as I said, I still have a job, my health, my family and my finances are stable. Things could be much worse.

Ugh, Kalshane. Will you start looking elsewhere?

YAY Burrell!

Ugh, Kalshane. Will you start looking elsewhere?

I don't know. I like the people I work with. I love my 5 minute commute and being able to go home for lunch every day. And the CIO was making noise about how this is only the first stage of the department restructuring, and that additional positions may open up as the restructuring happens. So I might be able to get a promotion or change of position or something, but who knows when that will be. I'll probably start taking a pre-cursory glance around and see what else is out there, but unless something grabs me, I'm going to stick around at least until I see how permanent a change this is.

I have a really bad sinus infection. That's less cool.

Perkins! My sister in sinus pain!

Kalshane, I'm glad you didn't lose your job but I'd recommend looking around. In the Bay Area, there are definitely some desktop support positions open. Don't know what it's like where you are.

I found out 2 people more than I knew were laid off as well. There's a sense of doom around here. They pulled the trigger on people without having any concrete plan in place of how they were actually going to make a reorg work. It probably won't work.

I went to lunch with a couple co-workers and am now pleasantly numb due to rum and coca-cola...go down point kumana...bot' mudda and dotta....

They pulled the trigger on people without having any concrete plan in place of how they were actually going to make a reorg work. It probably won't work.

That's terrible. I wish you the best of luck finding somewhere with more of a clue.