It’s been a rough start to the new job.
04/29/2009
It had been planned for weeks, but very little of the prep work was done.
I had a computer that wasn’t hooked up to the network, no mouse and my profile wasn’t on the machine. The machine hadn’t been updated for quite a while and I noticed it still had a floppy drive! At least the monitor is a flat screen, so it looks good, but is sure is a drop in speed. I am still having access issues, but that is normal in a bureaucratic environment.
I haven’t received a lot of direction about the new job: I don’t have objectives, I don’t have any responsibilities yet and I don’t have a clear picture of what I am suppose to be doing. The supervisor was tied up with other things my first day and the commander was quite busy getting ready for some event. On Tuesday the supervisor and the commander were not in the building so I was left on my own to figure out what to do.
I did put my foot down on Monday when I was asked less than an hour into my new job to go back over to my old job to cover the position. My replacement has officially told them she is putting in her retirement paperwork. I told the supervisor that I thought it was inappropriate that I be reassigned to a job that I was “no longer qualified for”. They are scrambling to figure out what to do, but that’s really not my problem is it?
I watched the Talladega race on Sunday; it was as spectacular as always: you never know then the track is going to decide who to take out. The spectacular crash by Carl Edwards made all the news shows and I am sure glad that catch fence held. It’s about time that Nascar looks at the passing below the yellow lines at the finish of the race. That rule has caused enough carnage and luckily no drivers have been seriously injured yet.
