So today was my last day of training for the new job.  Sunday I start my "real" shift, and meet the team to which I've been assigned.  I'm excited because it means now I get to show what I can do and have a chance to earn bonuses and such.  Honestly though, I know it will be a month or two until I work out all the bugs and get call times more in ( Read more... )

So yeah, it was a weird and surprising day.

Last night it snowed.  It's an uncommon enough occurrence that it made me happy to stare out at it for several minutes (until the cold outweighed the mystery).  I went to bed and when I woke up this morning there was a text message from my trainer that due to road conditions the call center was opening ( Read more... )

I really am back.  And, oh yeah, I found my badge in between the seat and the door in the Bug.  Yay me.  : )

Work was just pretty hectic this week.  We start taking live calls sometime next week (I did mention I'm still in training, right?) and our trainer showed us some tech websites that weren't mandatory, but have some fairly valuable information ( Read more... )

Ugh.  I'm so mad at myself.  Somehow, after only a month at my new job.  I've lost my badge.

Dammit.  I guess I'll go talk to HR in the morning and see how much trouble I'm in.  *sigh*

Chase

(Sorry, for the short post, I'm just feeling dramatic and pathetic about this.)

I guess the job is what I should talk about first.  After everything that happened with the old tech support job, I pretty much had to survive on my somewhat meager Starbuck's hours and my savings account.  Things got pretty close towards the end, I have to admit, and my temporary roommates (the guys I'm still staying with for a couple more weeks) ( Read more... )

...in the name of me.

I so very much wanted to post yesterday, just because it was 10/10/10.  I just thought that was super cool.  But alas the wireless network at Donovan and Micheal's house does not love my laptop.  Troubleshooting will commence this evening.

So I'm borrowing an internet connection today in case the troubleshooting does not produce ( Read more... )

I'm about halfway through my final tech shift.  I didn't expect it, but I'm kind of blue.  I thought by now I was resigned to the end of my tech job, but... there it is.  I've had only one difficult customer so far today, so for the most part I've felt an odd fondness for all the customers I've talked to.  I feel like I'm sending them back out into ( Read more... )

...getting in the way of my social life?  *grumble*

(Pardon me a moment while I digress and look at those words I just wrote and snicker at myself.  Done.  Thank you for your indulgence, it was just odd to start a rant that way.)

Right.  So anyway...  The last half of last week, I spent three nights in a bar.  I was invited to a party on saturday ( ( Read more... )

I finished work today and drove over to Starbucks to chat with Kendra.  (Yes, I toyed with the idea of being a bar fly again tonight, but couldn't justify it when I have to be up at ridiculous o'clock to serve coffee to the masses tomorrow.)  Mostly, I was hoping she'd have some news regarding her other boss and my resume.

Turns out she kind of did ( Read more... )

I've been fairly stressed out the last couple weeks.  I'm still working the tech job, but I don't know when my boss will tell me that I need to give him my final answer.  Any doubt I had about if staying in Dallas was the right choice vanished this week.  I discovered that the Bug picked up a nail in her right front tire.  $168 later, I had a new ( Read more... )