MORE jobbish things!!!
OMFG I've never had this happen to me so fast before in my life!! (Wow, I really suck at this whole "keeping my LJ up-to-date" thing, don't I?)
I got a call last Thursday (20060706) from a former boss asking if I wanted a new job.
A little backstory: Sallah (the man in question) was my supervisor on my recent contract at T-Mobile, but before I went to M$, he went to work for a company called InfoSpace. Fast-forward to last Thursday. I hadn't heard from him all this time, but I HAD been thinking about calling him lately for a sort of "how's things" conversation. Needless to say, he beat me to the punch.
He asked me to send him my up-to-date resume. I did so sort of on a whim, and not really thinking anything of it. I got a call later that day from someone in their HR department wanting to schedule a phone interview for the following day (Friday). The first half of Friday passed without incident, and without a phone call. I had started thinking "No harm, no foul. I didn't really expect to hear any more from them anyway." when, at about 2:30 I got a call from that same HR person asking of 3:00 would be OK for a phone interview. "Absolutely!" I'd responded, and sure enough, when 3:00 rolled around, my cell phone rang.
The interview went without a hitch, but with occasional signal drops. Thankfully, the call never dropped. They asked a number of good technical questions, and when I couldn't answer some to my own satisfaction, I felt my heart sink a little. I must have said something right, though. About an hour or so later, I got an email with an offer letter attached!
I took this past weekend to think it over and talk it over with my wife shanarae. The first 90 days are probationary. They seem to like to call it "temporary." Here's how it seems to work: For the first 90 days of employment, I have no benefits except a 401-k. At the end of this 90-day "temporary" employment period, they review my performance, and we make a mutual decision for me to either stay or go. Why they call it "temporary" now instead of "probationary" I may never quite understand, but this seems to me to be exactly the way "permanent" employment has always worked, with the odd exception here-and-there. Also, at the end of the 90 days, my benefits would kick in. Their benefits package looks VERY nice, too, I must say.
My current contract at Microsoft has me grossing $18.31 per hour. Not bad, but not extraordinary, either. The Infospace job pays $24 per hour.
Which way would you go? :)
I got a call last Thursday (20060706) from a former boss asking if I wanted a new job.
A little backstory: Sallah (the man in question) was my supervisor on my recent contract at T-Mobile, but before I went to M$, he went to work for a company called InfoSpace. Fast-forward to last Thursday. I hadn't heard from him all this time, but I HAD been thinking about calling him lately for a sort of "how's things" conversation. Needless to say, he beat me to the punch.
He asked me to send him my up-to-date resume. I did so sort of on a whim, and not really thinking anything of it. I got a call later that day from someone in their HR department wanting to schedule a phone interview for the following day (Friday). The first half of Friday passed without incident, and without a phone call. I had started thinking "No harm, no foul. I didn't really expect to hear any more from them anyway." when, at about 2:30 I got a call from that same HR person asking of 3:00 would be OK for a phone interview. "Absolutely!" I'd responded, and sure enough, when 3:00 rolled around, my cell phone rang.
The interview went without a hitch, but with occasional signal drops. Thankfully, the call never dropped. They asked a number of good technical questions, and when I couldn't answer some to my own satisfaction, I felt my heart sink a little. I must have said something right, though. About an hour or so later, I got an email with an offer letter attached!
I took this past weekend to think it over and talk it over with my wife shanarae. The first 90 days are probationary. They seem to like to call it "temporary." Here's how it seems to work: For the first 90 days of employment, I have no benefits except a 401-k. At the end of this 90-day "temporary" employment period, they review my performance, and we make a mutual decision for me to either stay or go. Why they call it "temporary" now instead of "probationary" I may never quite understand, but this seems to me to be exactly the way "permanent" employment has always worked, with the odd exception here-and-there. Also, at the end of the 90 days, my benefits would kick in. Their benefits package looks VERY nice, too, I must say.
My current contract at Microsoft has me grossing $18.31 per hour. Not bad, but not extraordinary, either. The Infospace job pays $24 per hour.
Which way would you go? :)