Life, Kids, Technology & that move to another continent
My exit interview is in a little while. I am not leaving for over a week, but I was hoping to get some time off next week so I am doing it now. After that I am off to lunch with an old friend (and old boss) Jeff. I am going to meet him down by his office. It is usually too long between when we get together so I am looking forward to lunch.
Other than those plans, I am not sure what the day has in store for me yet.
After work yesterday a few of us headed over to the brewery in Union Square for some drinks and food. We meet up with John, Mickey, and Tom and had an overall good evening. John is trying to convince most of us to goto a poker tournament on super bowl sunday out on the island. I am still skeptical about the trip. Originally the buy in was high and I am not a fan of traveling way out onto the island if I can avoid it. I am waiting to see what the buy in will be for real before I make a decision.
Even-though I only had 2 drinks (in my defense they were rather large mixed drinks, but I know I am a light weight when it comes to drinking) I was pretty buzzed last night. I had my typical after drinking restless sleeping last night. I set my alarm for later than normal but still got up around my regular time since I was not able to sleep well most of the night.
Here I am sitting at work with 7 more business days until I leave for my new job. I am winding down everything I have been doing, and answering questions from everyone who asks about this or that. Since others in my group are leaving soon we are all in the same boat. You would think that we would be the last to show up to work each day and the first to leave in the evening. Scary thing is that we are not. Take yesterday for example. Monday night I asked myself why I was getting up so early to goto the office normal time (for me at least) when 3/4 of the development team staff get in after 10AM. So I set my alarm for an hour later than normal. I figured I would sleep in a bit and maybe get some stuff done at home before heading into work. I wasn’t that busy on Monday anyway. Well even with getting up an hour later and puttering around my apartment for a while I still only came to work at 10AM. The funny thing was I walked in with a developer who ALWAYS does that. When I got to work at 10AM at least half the dev staff still wasn’t in the office. I just don’t get it. Even if these people are working allot at home (tend to doubt it though) the perception this type of work ethic gives off is terrible to everyone else. Is it me? Others in my groups say the same thing, so I don’t think it is me being overly sensitive.
If you are asking, hey maybe these guys work late so they can come in late. That is what I told myself for a while. But when my team comes into work on time every day and over half of them stay much later than any of their development counterparts you get to wonder what are these people doing? I would like a 10:30 to 6PM (6:30 maybe) job with an hour lunch built in. That doesn’t account for the playing with remote control cars or other stuff people do to waste time throughout the day. No wonder why some departments keep needing to hire more staff.
On the plus side as I said at the beginning of this post I only have 7 more business days to go. My exit interview is tomorrow with HR. I will be honest when asked questions, so it will be interesting.
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Since I gave my two weeks notice I have had not that much to do. In larger organizations a person in my position would very likely be asked to leave after giving two weeks notice. It is simply a security precaution. I would get my 2 weeks pay but asked to not show up anymore due to the level of access I have. At my current company they really need to have transition information so everyone that is staying (the few that are) can get up to speed as much as possible. In theory the two weeks transition is a good idea, but in practice it is not.
What have I done so far this week? I wrote up an document outlining the major areas of concern that people should look out for with regard to ongoing operations. I wrote a doc showing were most information regarding the department can be found. Oh, and I cleaned up my office. I got rid of most of the crap out of it, and wiped my laptop so it can go into storage until someone needs to use it. I had a meeting with my boss to go over some items and went to a staff meeting yesterday.
All told out of 16 hours this week of work, I probably needed to be in the office 3-4 of them. The thing is I am done with the major stuff I have to do. I don’t know what else I will be doing for the next 8 business days? Tomorrow I am going to our data center with my boss so he can get his security account setup and see our cage, but after that I don’t think I have much planned.
I am trying to swing it so I can take most of next week off. I have floating holidays that I am going to loose if I leave and I will be available in case of any issues anyway so I think it is a good trade off. My boss seemed to agree but he still has to authorize the time off in our HR system. If I get the days off I will be able to do some heavy sleeping and maybe some xbox playing. Not sure what I would do at home for that many days, but it is better than being stuck in the office. I will hopefully have an update soon.
Due to restrictions placed on my by my current employer I am unable to discuss what happened at work today, or my feelings about everything. I think you can figure it out. Lets just say I feel like I am on a runaway train and have no way of getting off. No the world is not going to end, but things are going to be interesting for a while.
All in all I had a horrible day. It was more frustrating than anything else. I wrote extensively about it on my private work blog. One day it may see the light of day, or not.
I am told there is a big NFL playoff game today. I am skeptical since my dad is on a plane going on vacation today, but we all know my mom runs their schedule so maybe he just didn’t remember there was a game on. In any case I am about to run out for some drinks at a bar with friends while we watch the Saints game. Since Gretchen is from New Orleans and is organizing the event we are going to a Saints friendly bar. I don’t care who wins either way so it will be an interesting afternoon. I am going for some food and drinks. I mean I haven’t seen every one in so long, oh wait we went out on Friday. Never-mind.
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Well after a long period of procrastination I have gotten off my but and began looking for dating opportunities. Well, I guess I can say I haven’t really gotten off my but since I am trying the whole online dating thing so I am sitting down when looking, but you know what I mean. I forked over some cash to Match.com and will see what comes of the online dating search.
It is really weird. When it comes to dating I guess I am shy and find it difficult to make the first move. My friends probably are surprised by that since if I know you I am sometimes told I don’t shut up!
I spent the large part of this evening making a mess of my apartment, and working on my online profile. It is late and I am not tired. That does not bode well for my condition tomorrow when I wake up. Oh well. I think I finally have a decent online bio, but who really knows. I am trying the whole winking thing to female profiles I like. Apparently if they like what they read back, they can do the same for you and then you can email them. It is the sort of non-threatening way of making the first contact. I wonder if has the same averages to the old saying that if you walk up to a hundred women in a bar and tell each one that you want to take them back to your place for some sex that at least one (probably a few more) would actually say yes. Granted you would need a cup for the other 90% of them, but this is only a theory. I have never tried it, but I have some friends that may have attempted it.
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Technically I started the mission timer at 77 hours and 5 minutes. Yes, I am actually counting down until my departure from LA on Thursday. Also a yes to the fact that the function on my watch calls it “mission clock”. I mean my Omega was designed for NASA, so the name makes sence. hold on, actually the function is CDT or count down time. There is a mission time function but that is just a term to refer to the GMT time function on the watch. My bad. Last year I started counting down trips to our other office or other short trips. Keeps things in perspective. No real reason for it, besides I was bored in the cab on the way to the airport.
LA is hotter than NYC. To be expected, but I was finally getting happy with the cooler weather in NYC and now I spend a few days in hot and sunny land. Lets face it, most of the time in LA will be spent indoors anyway.
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I had to take a Butabitol for the first time in a while for my migraines. I don’t think I would have made it through the day if I hadn’t. The Alive didn’t seem to work, and I didn’t have any Amerge. After what the Butabital did to me last year around my birthday I am not a fan of taking it, but you cannot argue with results. I just know I need to take that stuff in moderation.
I was feeling better enough to go out with people from work for a few drinks after work. I only had 2 and headed out early. I was afraid of causing the headache that the medication prevented earlier in the day. Turned out to be a decent day, but for a while I was worried.
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A few of us had lunch with EMC today to talk about some stuff that is going on. And lets face it, we use enough of there stuff so lunch is not allot to ask for. Actually our rep who is pretty cool was the one that suggested it. Like Jayson and I, he likes to eat! Well at least eat at a halfway decent place! the problem with vendor lunch’s is that they take forever. We learned allot, so it wasn’t a waste.