I have found a home in my current employment. Seriously. I have never felt so supported and comfortable with any other management structure. I can't begin to imagine trying to live my current life in any of the places I've been before. Heck, at my last company I didn't even have time to get pregnant ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting week at work. I have really settled in to writing decent VBA for the first time. Oh yeah, before I wrote some automation for creating and presenting mailbox stats, but really, how hard was that? This week I took a form that someone in EMEA created, and combined it with a tool that my partner wrote last year. Now between the ( Read more... )

So, I've been working really hard. We're talking 12-16 hour days. I've gotten a ton done and really think this particular push is going to clean up so many of the issues we see. It's completely worth it.

Except.

Working through my scheduled baby feeding times has started lowering my milk production. And K has practically doubled her intake. We ( Read more... )

Today I met our VP. We are talking my boss's - boss's - boss. Or the guy who reports to the guy who reports to the CEO. I looked him dead in the eye and forgot my question in mid word. Seriously. Room full of people, my boss, his boss, the VP. And sure enough my brain locked up. I had to ask my partner what I had planned on asking. He graciously ( Read more... )

So, I love developing. It's weird. And good. But the problem is, that I wrap myself into a little cocoon of coding. The last two weeks I've managed to work about 50 hours each because I was developing new automation in VB ( Read more... )

The stretch marks go marching one by one, hooray, hooray ( Read more... )

I don't know why this (Putin Turns Down Michael Dell’s Aid Offer at Davos) surprised me, but it did. Ah, pride, ever the villain.

the zen or the calm?

( who cares? )

I have been working on a project for a week that has not yet been identified as a project. Read: there is no Project Manager; I have been the only one to document business needs, scope, etc; and even though the business requires changes to the system, I am told that we cannot make changes because it would affect downstream reporting ( Read more... )

After much thought and aggravation, I'm going to go back to my original feelings of superiority. Shocking, I know, but remember back to a year or two ago when I was constantly being told that I wasn't good enough (even as a human being) to deserve basic respect at work from that company? Well, those feelings have been coming back ( Read more... )