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Category: Rant
And the suckage continues
As predicted in Rants and Revelations » I have seen the future, and it sucks, they’ve hired a new Flash guy to write the new user interface. It really sucks to find out that your contributions are going to be even more marginalized just as you’re also finding out that they want you to become a full time employee at a significant pay cut.
I guess it’s time to stop antagonizing recruiters and start finding out seriously what’s out there. Either that or find out if the bank account would survive me taking off however long it would take me to get a masters in user inferace design.
Update: Oh, it gets better. New Guy has never even heard of source code control. In other words, he’s used to toy projects on toy operating systems.
Recruiters suck, New York City people suck, so recruiters from New York City…
…really, really suck.
Can you believe I got called by a recruiter who hadn’t even bothered to look at a map to figure out where Rochester is in relation to NYC? She seemed shocked when I said it would be a 6-8 hour drive for me to “commute”. She kept referring to NYC as “the city”, as if none of the other centers of population in New York (or indeed, probably the world) count as cities in her world view.
Feh.
Go The Fuck Away!
I’ve ranted about the impromptu meetings that break out outside my cube in the past, right? Well, today it reached a new pinnacle of annoying: there were three separate groups talking, and because they were so noisy, each group was getting progressively louder and louder as they struggled to be heard over the other two groups.
After a minute or two of this, I went out and said very loudly “Excuse me, I’m not working too loud for you, am I?” One person laughed, but nobody stopped talking. About two minutes later, two of the groups went away but the one group stayed for another 5 minutes or so.
Next time I’m plugging my iPod into my speakers and blasting “Mao Tse Tung Said” at them.
What a scorcher!
This office has never been particularly well airconditioned. Mostly it’s too hot in both winter and summer, although a few years ago it was the opposite, so that I kept a sweater in my desk for the days when it was too over airconditioned in the summer. But in the last couple of years, we keep getting “emergency power reduction program in effect”, which means that they’ve turned off at least one of the building’s chillers, usually because one of the (formerly belonging to the company, now sold off to some other organization) power generators is off-line.
Today it’s bloody hot in the office, and of course this is a day when I chose to wear a long sleeve shirt.