Stretching the Job
That additional two-week project they hired me for was finished in a day. I don’t know WTF they thought would take two weeks for that, but it didn’t. So I’m just running around suggesting things I could do. “That’s a good idea”, “oh, do you have time to do that?”
I’ve got time, let me tell ya. I actually had two lunch hours today just to kill some time. I had to order some supplies today in order to do one of these other jobs, so they won’t arrive til tomorrow – hopefully in the morning so I won’t be sitting around half the day doing nothing. Let’s just hope I’m still sitting around for the rest of this week and half the next week as per the original contract. I’ve got to stop being so good at my job… I’ll work myself out of work.
Tomorrow afternoon is my interview, but not the real interview, the HR interview with all the testing in the usual programs. Like I’m gonna fail that stuff. People used to call me for the answers on those programs and they thought I had it all memorized. Well I do. Call me anytime and ask me a software question. I’ll tell you which toolbar, what it says, what it will say next, what to press and when and what to do after you do that. I can barely remember my own name but I can sure remember that stuff.
I hope things go well since I’m so suckalicious on those interviews. Let’s hope it’s not a whole scripted thing where I’m supposed to give the answer that means “A”, because answer “B” means that you’re really a psychotic bitch underneath it all. At least lets hope that tomorrow’s interview will get me the real interview, after all, I could do that job blindfolded.
We went to Costco tonight. I picked up my mother’s Christmas present which consists of a three-piece pair of pajamas (the really soft kind) and a huge box of belgian chocolates. What the hell do you get someone in ‘the home’ – someone who doesn’t remember who you are and that you live in Toronto and will not be going back to another province soon. Perhaps she’ll remember it’s Christmas at Christmas time if there are some presents sitting there. Or perhaps she’ll just look at the stuff and wonder who it belongs to. But she’ll eat the chocolates, cuz God knows she can’t stop with the eating of the candy any more.
Now I’m going out to spend some quality television time with my daughter before she has to go to bed at 9:30. She had no homework tonight (ya, right). Then I’ll watch Boston Legal and hopefully make my way to bed at 11:00. I’m losing lots of sleep lately by not being able to get to bed at 11:00 and waking up before the alarm goes off. WTF is that? What happened to the days of hitting the snooze, and hitting the snooze, and hitting the snooze, and… you know. Now my body wants to get up before the alarm, even though I’m dead to the world.
Enough of that. Quality time now.
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Maria
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
55
is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Apparently, your body is in tune with my cat’s eating cycle. I don’t imagine knowing this will help you sleep any better, but hey, who knows?! Maybe you need to get a cat?
Good luck with the interview/pseudo-interview.