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.
ergh. have given up on uploading pics once I realized that it will take yonks & will tie up my computer. grrr. the problem with having a sys admin for a husband is that the computers at home are never actually fixed. instead he always goes for the quick hack, and then it's only later that I realize he's hobbled my computer.
Oh gawd. Blagojevich admits cluelessness about 'Daily Show'
ST. LOUIS -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn't in on the joke.
Blagojevich says he didn't realize "The Daily Show'' was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the sometimes-confused Democratic governor.
"It was going to be an interview on contraceptives ... that's all I knew about it,'' Blagojevich laughingly told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in a story for Thursday's editions. "I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was 'the gay governor.'''
The interview focused on his executive order requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions for emergency birth control. Interviewer Jason Jones pretended to stumble over Blagojevich's name before calling him "Governor Smith.''
He urged Blagojevich to explain the contraception issue by playing the role of "a hot 17-year-old'' and later asked if he was "the gay governor.''
At one point in the interview, a startled Blagojevich looked to someone off camera and said, "Is he teasing me, or is that legit?''
The segment, which aired two weeks ago, also featured state Rep. Ron Stephens, a Greenville Republican and pharmacist who opposes the governor's rule. Stephens has said he knew the show was a comedy.
"I thought the governor was hip enough that he would have known that, too,'' Stephens said.
At least the anti-contraception right-wing Christian knew it was a joke....
We should probably make more plans other than "I'll be at the Marqueen Hotel starting late Friday night"
Perkins, what week is this?
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 hope all of this goes well, and easily for you, Kalshane. The pros you listed are pretty good ones too. So I understand the wanting to be able to wait and see if they have their heads in their fannies or not, as it could turn out very well for you. But also the looking a bit because something better could be right there waiting.
But I'm getting my apartment painted!
Right on!
I got spoiled for figure skating at lunch where two people were talking about it at the next table. Feh.
Perkins, what week is this?
The 3rd-5th.
ION, I just fell asleep. At my desk. At work.
