And on more thing. Nancy and I are hooked on heroin.

Something baout this job isn't sitting well with me. Just something I haven't felt since high school. It's kind of a feeling of dread, and I SERIOUSLY have to keep staring at $14.25 an hour to keep motivated on this.

I thought maybe it was the thought of losing my days/nights or maybe a fear of not being able to do my comics with the 8 hour workload...but that's not it. I thought maybe it was just pre-job-jitters, but I never felt this way with Dell, Harte-Hanks or TxDOT.

I thought maybe it was the fear of being told "Stop using the women's room or you're fired." I haven't ruled that out, but I never felt that way at TxDOT. Maybe I should have. I dunno.

I think it has a LOT to do with the interview and how it was handled. Sure, the TG thing came up and it was handwaved away. What scared me was the managerial questions they asked me (What managerial experience do you have? Have you managed anyone but yourself?) and the Unix questions they asked. When he asked if I had Unix experiene, his eyes lit up, and start asking me some REALLY softball questions (what port does Telnet connect to? What's the command to list a directory). When the questions came up that I didn't know (What's the difference between TCP and UDP? How do you determine a mac address on an IP number?) he up and GAVE me the answers, then marked I got them correctly.

Maybe I'm just making excuses for feeling wierd. I just don't know. I do know that I feel very very very uneasy, moreso than I have since high school. It just doesn't "Feel" right.

Dean did NOT help by telling me some temp agencies CHARGE the future employee for work, and got that in my head over the paperwork signing tomorrow. Talk about your boneheaded maneuvers. Not cool throwing that in on top of everything else.

I go sign paperwork tomorrow. Maybe I'll have it all straightened out by then. I need to be up in 6 hours...

And on more thing. Nancy and I are hooked on heroin.

Something baout this job isn't sitting well with me. Just something I haven't felt since high school. It's kind of a feeling of dread, and I SERIOUSLY have to keep staring at $14.25 an hour to keep motivated on this.

I thought maybe it was the thought of losing my days/nights or maybe a fear of not being able to do my comics with the 8 hour workload...but that's not it. I thought maybe it was just pre-job-jitters, but I never felt this way with Dell, Harte-Hanks or TxDOT.

I thought maybe it was the fear of being told "Stop using the women's room or you're fired." I haven't ruled that out, but I never felt that way at TxDOT. Maybe I should have. I dunno.

I think it has a LOT to do with the interview and how it was handled. Sure, the TG thing came up and it was handwaved away. What scared me was the managerial questions they asked me (What managerial experience do you have? Have you managed anyone but yourself?) and the Unix questions they asked. When he asked if I had Unix experiene, his eyes lit up, and start asking me some REALLY softball questions (what port does Telnet connect to? What's the command to list a directory). When the questions came up that I didn't know (What's the difference between TCP and UDP? How do you determine a mac address on an IP number?) he up and GAVE me the answers, then marked I got them correctly.

Maybe I'm just making excuses for feeling wierd. I just don't know. I do know that I feel very very very uneasy, moreso than I have since high school. It just doesn't "Feel" right.

Dean did NOT help by telling me some temp agencies CHARGE the future employee for work, and got that in my head over the paperwork signing tomorrow. Talk about your boneheaded maneuvers. Not cool throwing that in on top of everything else.

I go sign paperwork tomorrow. Maybe I'll have it all straightened out by then. I need to be up in 6 hours...

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To the ones responsible, thank you. :D

I'm still iffy on the new job. As I signed papers, the TG issue came up AGAIN - the company's HR department had not gotten back to them on policies. However, they told me to show up at 9AM for training on Tuesday, and to expect a call from the HR department before 5PM. I still had a bad feeling about this job, so I decided to run a few errands while I was out.

I did my drug test. Picked up PO Box mail. It seems on the eve of employment...I'm eligible for it. Huh. It's about time...I coulda used it, oh, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. I should put in for the one day of unemployment I'm eligible for.

I finally get home, expecting a call from the HR department. Lo, there is a message on the machine: Another company called for an interview. So I kind of hem and haw, and say I just started a temp job, but I'm willing to interview on Wednesday if at all possible. The guy said to call Tuesday Night for a Wednesday appointment.

So I wait some more, and finally get the call - don't come to work tomorrow, because we'll be waiting on the HR department to get back to you. Go ahead and show up on Wednesday instead.

One quick call, and I got an interview for 9:30AM Tuesday.

It's a job recovering data from corrupted hard drives. I don't mind that at ALL. Anything to get me away from phone work. It's also a digital printshop, which is another thing I'd rather do instead of phone tech work.

So, thank you to Serendipity. Things are looking up. :D

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To the ones responsible, thank you. :D

I'm still iffy on the new job. As I signed papers, the TG issue came up AGAIN - the company's HR department had not gotten back to them on policies. However, they told me to show up at 9AM for training on Tuesday, and to expect a call from the HR department before 5PM. I still had a bad feeling about this job, so I decided to run a few errands while I was out.

I did my drug test. Picked up PO Box mail. It seems on the eve of employment...I'm eligible for it. Huh. It's about time...I coulda used it, oh, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. I should put in for the one day of unemployment I'm eligible for.

I finally get home, expecting a call from the HR department. Lo, there is a message on the machine: Another company called for an interview. So I kind of hem and haw, and say I just started a temp job, but I'm willing to interview on Wednesday if at all possible. The guy said to call Tuesday Night for a Wednesday appointment.

So I wait some more, and finally get the call - don't come to work tomorrow, because we'll be waiting on the HR department to get back to you. Go ahead and show up on Wednesday instead.

One quick call, and I got an interview for 9:30AM Tuesday.

It's a job recovering data from corrupted hard drives. I don't mind that at ALL. Anything to get me away from phone work. It's also a digital printshop, which is another thing I'd rather do instead of phone tech work.

So, thank you to Serendipity. Things are looking up. :D

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Don't let the Government be takin' your Lucky Charms!

Frosted Lucky Charms are magically delicious.