-t, that's great!

le sigh. One of my fave coworkers is up for a job that could potentially be awesome for her. Increased pay, actual retirement plan, reasonable hours, doing what she loves times a thousand, longer commute (but, hey). I wish for more financial stability in her life (she was the poor one helping poor me out in a financial crisis, and it sucked for both of us) and therefore less stress and more happiness. But, damn, I'll miss her.

And christ, as much as I don't get paid, if handled right, where I work has so much potential for change and improvement, and just the idea of being one of the creative minds behind that is exciting. I worked at a place that was set, and it was stagnant and repetitive year after year. Being one of the building blocks towards greatness is rewarding in itself. I just wish that the awesome job came with the awesome paycheck. The ED that just retired basically said to us at her last dinner "If you aren't a trophy wife, gtf out". Hoo rah. FU, C.

Congrats, t.

-t, that's really good news. When it's all signed and sealed, it will definitely be less stressful, too.

Thanks, y'all!

It is not the inventory place, javachik, it's Meyer, makers of pots and pans and kitchen-y things. Most of the stuff in my kitchen is from there, so in a way it is the mothership calling me home.

I'll be a Business Analyst in the Support Services Department. How's that for a non-descriptive title? It's sort of customer-service-like, but the "customers" are either other departments of ours (we do a lot of liasing between sales and logistics, for example) or retailers (who are our actual customers, but we don't deal with them the same way that sales does, it's got a different feel)

YAY -t!

javachik, I've applied my extensive internet debating skillz to the confidentiality issue, and here's the answer: If you stamp confidential on a page that already says confidential, then clearly you have no expectation of confidentiality based on the word confidential on that page.

¡Quod erat voila!

Can someone tell me the name of the boyish blond gladiator in the first season of Spartacus? I don't want to risk spoiling myself by looking too hard.

The shit that got me in trouble at work was hearing word of a director trying to push a change through that observed none of our controls--not of code, architecture, or security. So I called a meeting on someone else's project that had ground to a standstill because I have the relationship with the business user, and because I'm the SME on the application used as the back end.

I tried to get one of the managers to stipulate controls over the platform for which he is responsible, but he demurred, saying it wasn't his place. IT IS ABSOLUTELY YOUR PLACE. And as much of a lowly maggot I am, I'm still calling that out--the director said he'd take care of security, and he managed to completely forget to mention the component of the application that waved the security red flag.

So I waved it. IT STILL IS MY PLACE.

Why am I in trouble? Because when I told the manager he had a task that needed to be started right away, he asked if I'd start the paperwork, meaning I'd be up for the deployment in the wee hours of the morning, whereas I only meant I'd get the paperwork in under the wire, and the work part was in the hands of the platform owner.

Apparently that's too much like telling him what to do, BUT I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS APPLICATION other than having seen a number of flagrant risks in it.

Me and the other manager usually get along just fine. No idea why he had to complain about me behind my back, but my ex-manager does actually agree it's not supposed to be my job, even if I have to see this bit through.

-t, that's awesome, congrats! Get plenty of sleep, adjust to the new routine, and a bazillion new passwords....

Oh, and in a post with no whining: CONGRATS, -t!

ita, good lord. I don't understand why you're being expected to do your old *and* your new job. That's absurd. And does this mean you do have to be awake in the wee hours for the deployment, because that doesn't seem fair at all.