Interviewing may be harder than going on interviews, or maybe not.

Today I have 2 phone interviews with Gus for our Helpdesk Manager position for our Kingston office. Not that anyone who is interviewing will read this, but I have lots to say about the first guy we talked to, but I can’t discuss here. Trust me lots to say, most not good. Not sure if giving an interview is worse than having an interview. Both are not fun.

I am slowly trying to setup moveabletype on a red hat box at work. Gus wants to use it for project based blogs. I think it is a great idea. The problem is I can’t get people to follow simple security procedures let alone use a blog to document a project. We will build it anyway, and hope for use I guess.

I think Gus is having buyers remource with the VOIP solution we just purchased. He knows it is good, but he still worries. Keith is all excited about the new toys to play with. For some crazy reason I think I am the level headed one in this situation. I think it will work, but we cannot play up the “new toy” part of this because it is not a toy. It is the bet we made with alot riding on it.

Yesterday we had an interesting converstation with a bunch of our DB guys. Our QA guy rajive came asking if we can get a faster staging DB server. Staging is a place you put stuff right when you are ready to actually open it up on the internet. It is a staging area, or a place to make last minute testing of code. Well our staging database server was running something really slow, so people wanted to put the process on a production machine and run it from their. I was like no way. You don’t mix “live stuff” with “staging stuff”. I did feel bad because not allowing that screws up rajive’s testing, but I couldn’t do what they asked. So no one liked that answer and Gus gathered us all around to discuss the problem. We started with Keith and me saying this is a bad idea to everyone agreeing it was a bad idea in like 30 minutes. I don’t understand what happened. Boris one of our DBA’s made a complete 180 on the decision. Don’t get me wrong I am happy, but it was weird.

I did feel bad about rajive. he is like one of the most level headed and coolest people I work with. But he needs to rely on other people for him to get his work done. I mean it is his job to test everything, so if stuff is bad it makes his life harder. If people ask him to test 5 things at once, his life sucks.