So... I scheduled a week of vacation because honestly I need an F-ing break. lol. But I expected to be finished with the spring reset before I went, and it's NOT DONE after a WHOLE MONTH. Why? because a) it's HUGE, and b) right after we started working on it 5 people were out with freaking COVID (or in a couple of cases a couple of people were ( Read more... )

I don't want to rant about this on Facebook, because I'm still mad about it, and I yet I don't want to offend anyone that might be a coworker. But yesterday a thing happened that really upset me. It upset me a surprising amount and I'm still not over it... So I need to rant about it and get it off my chest ( Read more... )

Pro: I'm off on a Saturday for the first time in forever ( Read more... )

On a Sidenote: I got a raise! A real one.  My boss went to bat for me to get a better raise when the starting wage went up $3 and mine only went up 58¢ for the same adjustment.  For the 58¢ raise, I literally just calculated how much it would work out to per pay period and rolled it into improving my health coverage, and adding in optical since I ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted here in like two years.  I had just left a job that I liked ok but was fed up with.  I'd been talked into leaving to take antoher job, the subject of which was that post.  Well, long story short.  It was a nightmare right from the getgo. I was trying my best to be positive in that post, because at that point, I really believed ( Read more... )

So now we're three days into delivery going live. Things are going pretty well. I've got one driver that really has a pretty good grip on the job. I'll call him Driver A. Both are decent at delivery but one that is still afraid of the computer, and super shaky answering the phone, while Driver A is already getting a pretty good grasp of it. We ( Read more... )

You know, I thought I was way behind again on keeping up with my LiveJournal friends. list.  I'm kind of picky in that when I go to read I want to go back in time to the last thing I read  and work my way to the present.  It's a little sketchy if I get too far behind, because LJ doesn't let me go back as many pages as it used to, so I've made an ( Read more... )

I guess most of you know that my Favorite Job in the World. The one where I went out my door, walked four houses down the street, crossed the street and went in the door at work is no more. On June 10 of 2013, I walked in the door and upstairs to my office and my boss told me that he was closing Architectural Reuse Company forever ( Read more... )

So anyway, unfortunately today my boss has pretty much confirmed that ARC is pretty well gone forever. It's a real shame too. It was a good job. Best job I have ever had even though the pay was not stupendous. This will be the second time a job I really liked has disappeared out from under me through no fault of my own. In this case, the blame ( Read more... )

For the time being anyway. I've been weighing my options and reasons and the reasons to stop for now by so far outweigh the reasons to continue struggling forward that I can't even find a pro school reason right now. These are in no order of importance... in fact, the last things might weigh the heaviest right now because some of them are the ( Read more... )