Only took that long to get my first comment spam in the message below. I'm quite surprised. I guess I will be turning on the comment spam control in the options of my little blog to try and put a curb on that.
Things continue, as they always do, in a more or less level fashion. I'm still waiting on confirmation of my hire at Shaw but had a call from the hiring manager yesterday confirming information about one of my references. He said he had two sterling silver references but three is better than two. With any luck, this time next week I'll be a Shaw employee! Yay!
On a lighter note, Sly (the wife) has begun taking Ju-jitsu classes. First one was last night. She came home exhausted but upbeat. As well as beaten-up. LOL. I kill me. I'm glad she's found something outside the house to do as I should be the only homebody in this household. ;-)
Speaking of the household, the rains we had over the weekend caused us a bit of pain. Seems the building is 'leaking' and it's caused a rather large section of our living room carpet to become soggy. I borrowed a shop vac from Ken and tried to suck up as much as I could but it was still damp. It's much better today but with rain forecasted later today, I'm worried. It's definitely time to move.
Eve is still rocking. We're moving down to lawless space AKA 0.0 space. Down there anything goes. You don't want to be found alone in a sector without escort or the ability to defend yourself. We plan on doing a whole bunch of mining and just generally building up the corp wallet. Being someone that enjoys the whole 'logistics' side of things I'm really looking forward to it. Only problem is moving all our gack around. Lots of stuff to move and not enough time to do it in. Big surprise.
I've also downloaded a copy of the Anarchy Online client. I've not installed or played it yet but I am very interested to see the in-game ads they've started showing to make the game, by all accounts, free to play each month without subscription fees. Though I hear it's not the greatest I still want to pop in game and have a look at what could be the future in MMORPGs.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Quick one
Passed the test with flying colors (though he did mention my lack of Mac skills were deplorable (I may very well have mis-quoted him there :-) )) and I now have an interview for Tuesday morning. Very much looking forward to it.
Directing traffic isn't in my future, I hope. My hip is bugging me and it's because I'm used to sitting on my ass for 12 hours a day. Maybe directing traffic should be in my future.
Directing traffic isn't in my future, I hope. My hip is bugging me and it's because I'm used to sitting on my ass for 12 hours a day. Maybe directing traffic should be in my future.
Friday, September 02, 2005
I Told You So....
How many posts in the last week? See? Loss of interest. However, couple things to add....
I have a couple of jobs. Yes, I said a couple. They are both part time, they both pay far below what I think I am worth and they, for the most part, completely suck. Even if one sucks less than the other they still both suck. Suck, I say.
One job, which I will attempt to keep anonymous, is basically sitting at a desk for hours on end attempting to call people and have them do a survey. Now, it's not sales. No sales are involved in the operation whatsoever which makes it less deplorable than it could have been. Nevertheless, getting strangers on the phone to discuss how they like a certain brand of toothpaste leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. To add insult to injury they forced me to come in and do an enormously painful training session which was unpaid and utterly retarded. I know how to talk on the phone; is it necessary to discuss the different nuances of how to properly hang up said phone? Christ on a crutch.......
However, two other events took place that same day so I can't call it a complete write-off:
I love Shaw. Loved them for a long time until I started working for their competition (Telus, do a google for it and check out that labor dispute) and they offered me a very good price on 2.5 Mb/s ADSL line. It was then when I changed my inet provider to the Dark Tower.
Aside: I really, really, really like the system Shaw use for their customers when they are calling in to the office. If the wait seems like it might be longer than a customer would care to hold for before reaching a rep, it offers to take their phone number and call them back while still maintaining their position in line. Now why can't the bloody phone company get something like that in place? Oh Right the CRTC. Anyways...
I'm going in to Shaw's offices tomorrow to get some testing done. I guess they want to ensure I know how to turn on a computer and perhaps even what a mouse and keyboard are. I'm confident without being arrogant. My wife says that I'm sometimes arrogant that way. I'm trying to grow as a person so I'll just say I'm confident. And excited. I've heard such good things about working for Shaw it just makes me incredibly happy to think all the mental abuse piled on to me by past companies may indeed heal with time. Time and a discount on Shaw Extreme Speed Cable Internet service. Rate Protection Plan be damned!
Also I have another interview tomorrow. This one is for a Skip Tracer position. I've no experience so I'm not sure how it will go. I'm up to the task of learning though so that's something else positive to add to my 'I was a good little boy in a past life and that's why this is happening to me' karma bucket. Yay me!
Oh. And gas is currently 1.14 CDN per litre last time I checked. Strange but I thought the fact that we pumped that black stuff out of the ground here would save us some pain. Guess I was wrong. Ahhh the good old days of 35 cents a litre.
I have a couple of jobs. Yes, I said a couple. They are both part time, they both pay far below what I think I am worth and they, for the most part, completely suck. Even if one sucks less than the other they still both suck. Suck, I say.
One job, which I will attempt to keep anonymous, is basically sitting at a desk for hours on end attempting to call people and have them do a survey. Now, it's not sales. No sales are involved in the operation whatsoever which makes it less deplorable than it could have been. Nevertheless, getting strangers on the phone to discuss how they like a certain brand of toothpaste leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. To add insult to injury they forced me to come in and do an enormously painful training session which was unpaid and utterly retarded. I know how to talk on the phone; is it necessary to discuss the different nuances of how to properly hang up said phone? Christ on a crutch.......
However, two other events took place that same day so I can't call it a complete write-off:
- The recruiter from Rogers called and confirmed that they wanted me to come in for the next training session available, which was going to be on the 16 of September but was only for a part time position. I explained, politely, that I really only wanted full time and wouldn't be able to take the position. Now here's the kicker: I asked how long it normally took for an excellent part time employee to be offered a full time position? He explained that when you are hired on for part time you stay part time for at least 18 months, maybe 2 years. So after some more explaination he then said the next full time intake was 24th of October. Yes, children, two ... bloody... months. I told him to put my name down and I'd contact him if anything else came up. Good guy, would love to post his name but I'll keep him anon since I don't know him that well.
- The second event that occured was that Shaw called in regards to their tech support position I had applied for.
I love Shaw. Loved them for a long time until I started working for their competition (Telus, do a google for it and check out that labor dispute) and they offered me a very good price on 2.5 Mb/s ADSL line. It was then when I changed my inet provider to the Dark Tower.
Aside: I really, really, really like the system Shaw use for their customers when they are calling in to the office. If the wait seems like it might be longer than a customer would care to hold for before reaching a rep, it offers to take their phone number and call them back while still maintaining their position in line. Now why can't the bloody phone company get something like that in place? Oh Right the CRTC. Anyways...
I'm going in to Shaw's offices tomorrow to get some testing done. I guess they want to ensure I know how to turn on a computer and perhaps even what a mouse and keyboard are. I'm confident without being arrogant. My wife says that I'm sometimes arrogant that way. I'm trying to grow as a person so I'll just say I'm confident. And excited. I've heard such good things about working for Shaw it just makes me incredibly happy to think all the mental abuse piled on to me by past companies may indeed heal with time. Time and a discount on Shaw Extreme Speed Cable Internet service. Rate Protection Plan be damned!
Also I have another interview tomorrow. This one is for a Skip Tracer position. I've no experience so I'm not sure how it will go. I'm up to the task of learning though so that's something else positive to add to my 'I was a good little boy in a past life and that's why this is happening to me' karma bucket. Yay me!
Oh. And gas is currently 1.14 CDN per litre last time I checked. Strange but I thought the fact that we pumped that black stuff out of the ground here would save us some pain. Guess I was wrong. Ahhh the good old days of 35 cents a litre.
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