Today was my last day at KSD!!
Tonight my wife and I were watching a few episodes of The Office. While we were watching "The Fight" from disk 2 my wife made a wonderful observation/comment. Referring to the main character, Michael, she said:
"This guy is so ridiculous! How on earth did someone like him get promoted to be a manager?!?"
I still haven't stopped laughing.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
To Do's...
So, ever since summer started I have been completely occupied by preparing the school's applications by sequencing them and in my spare time resolving and problems or issues that arise. While I have a lot of respect for the teams out in the schools who are working very hard, I know that I have also been very busy and there isn't much free time. As soon as I finish sequencing one set of schools' applications, the teams have moved on and there are more apps to sequence.
Today proves that the aforementioned work is not appreciated...much....if at all.
This morning my manager (who will remain un-named) walked into my office and pulled up a chair. As always she pulled the chair up way too close so I blatantly shoved back with my feet to roll my chair to a comfortable distance (actually, 10 feet would be comfortable but I had to settle for 5). This un-named manager proceeded to list off all of the things that I am supposed to accomplish prior to my timely departure. This list includes but is not limited to:
Today proves that the aforementioned work is not appreciated...much....if at all.
This morning my manager (who will remain un-named) walked into my office and pulled up a chair. As always she pulled the chair up way too close so I blatantly shoved back with my feet to roll my chair to a comfortable distance (actually, 10 feet would be comfortable but I had to settle for 5). This un-named manager proceeded to list off all of the things that I am supposed to accomplish prior to my timely departure. This list includes but is not limited to:
- Documenting everything I know about SoftGrid
- Documenting everything I know about the image
- Documenting everything I know about the imaging process
- Documenting everything I know about WSUS
- Documenting everything I know about BartPE
- Documenting everything I know about the Ghostcast disk
- Documenting everything I know about the Ticketing tool excel dashboard
- Documenting everything I know about the printer deployment
- Documenting everything I know about Active Directory
Again, this probably isn't a complete list as more ideas will be had at random times for inexplicable reasons. Kinda like spontaneous combustion.
All of this is supposed to be accomplished while I continue to sequence applications and close admin tickets.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Light...
Shayna sent me an email this morning with the subject "please call me" and the only text in the body of the email was "I have good news".
Good news indeed. Without much hesitation, I printed and signed my letter of resignation.
Judy's response: "Oh, that's good."
Thuan was much more approachable, he congratulated me and expressed appreciation for my time here. He actually congratulated me twice.
The last letter went to HR and now I just have to count the days.
Of course it will be a miserable two weeks but I don't care, the end is in sight, light has appeared at the end of the tunnel, and the light is July 27th, 2007.
Good news indeed. Without much hesitation, I printed and signed my letter of resignation.
Judy's response: "Oh, that's good."
Thuan was much more approachable, he congratulated me and expressed appreciation for my time here. He actually congratulated me twice.
The last letter went to HR and now I just have to count the days.
Of course it will be a miserable two weeks but I don't care, the end is in sight, light has appeared at the end of the tunnel, and the light is July 27th, 2007.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
New Begining...
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007. A day that will forever define my career.
Donna pointed to my hip and said, "your phone is blinking!". Without even looking or listening to the message I knew that it was PACCAR. The IT department's HR specialist, Shayna, had left a message asking for an interview time. There was no need to waste time, I reterned her call and scheduled a time for the following day, Wednesday at 2:00pm.
The interview went very well. All four interviewers attacked me with a long list of questions, longer than any other interview I had been a part of. I had at least someone smiling with every answer... they liked me.
Once the interview was over they took about 20 seconds to "deliberate" and Jacki popped her head back in the room to thank me for my time. Shayna then proceeded to explain PACCAR benefits and ask me a few more questions, most repeats of the actual interview. This part hadn't happened when I interviewed for another position at PACCAR so I knew something was up. Shayna confirmed my suspicions and now I knew that only formalities stood in my way. References had to be checked and a third-party background check had to be returned.
Now I can only wait, letter of resignation in hand, for the official offer and for another new begining.
"every new begining is another begining's end"
Donna pointed to my hip and said, "your phone is blinking!". Without even looking or listening to the message I knew that it was PACCAR. The IT department's HR specialist, Shayna, had left a message asking for an interview time. There was no need to waste time, I reterned her call and scheduled a time for the following day, Wednesday at 2:00pm.
The interview went very well. All four interviewers attacked me with a long list of questions, longer than any other interview I had been a part of. I had at least someone smiling with every answer... they liked me.
Once the interview was over they took about 20 seconds to "deliberate" and Jacki popped her head back in the room to thank me for my time. Shayna then proceeded to explain PACCAR benefits and ask me a few more questions, most repeats of the actual interview. This part hadn't happened when I interviewed for another position at PACCAR so I knew something was up. Shayna confirmed my suspicions and now I knew that only formalities stood in my way. References had to be checked and a third-party background check had to be returned.
Now I can only wait, letter of resignation in hand, for the official offer and for another new begining.
"every new begining is another begining's end"
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