Well, wish me luck, I start a new job on Monday

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited August 2008
    Well, here I am at my new job!

    Yeah, gotta take a break from all this "new hire" and HR stuff. My mind is blasted right now and it doesn't help that I'm not feeling so hot either.

    Sucks, for the first time in my life I am without health insurance and of couse I get sick. How lame.

    Anyhoo, that's the update I got. They gave me a new laptop AND a BlackBerry too! Awesomesauce!
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited August 2008
    Good luck John. Change is good.
    Michael ;)
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited August 2008
    Congrats on the job, cool toys also.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited August 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    Well, here I am at my new job!

    Yeah, gotta take a break from all this "new hire" and HR stuff. My mind is blasted right now and it doesn't help that I'm not feeling so hot either.

    Sucks, for the first time in my life I am without health insurance and of couse I get sick. How lame.

    Anyhoo, that's the update I got. They gave me a new laptop AND a BlackBerry too! Awesomesauce!

    Danger: Anyone who gives you a Blackberry will want you to use it 24/7.
    Nothing like a boss waking you up at 2:00 A.M. a couple of nights
    in a row.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited August 2008
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    Danger: Anyone who gives you a Blackberry will want you to use it 24/7.
    Nothing like a boss waking you up at 2:00 A.M. a couple of nights
    in a row.

    Well, considering I work in IT and I've been "on-call" at one job or another for the past 12 years, I would expect that. Especially since the job I do supports a company with offices, literally, around the world.
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited August 2008
    Sounds like you found a good road to success. Wish you the best.
  • ttomp
    ttomp Posts: 181
    edited August 2008
    good luck , you'll do great.
  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited August 2008
    Sweet John, had a similar thing happened to me: I was rating a top 1% employee on fast track to senior management then my boss' boss changed, next review I was bottom 10% and that was because I had 2 typos on one BS powerpoint that I had to put together in 5 minutes for a presentation that the jackass had known about for a month. Then when I threw the BS flag on that, my boss said that his boss thought I was "intellectually intimidating" to him... Eff that, if your stupid, that's your own damn fault, not mine. When voluntary RIF's came up 4 weeks later, I took 6 months pay and walked out the door without a warning and started my new job a week later with a 30% raise, shorter hours, and less BS. Best thing I ever did other than marrying my wife.

    I'm sure you'll find the same thing at your new job!
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