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Looking before leaping doesn't allways end badly...
12 years ago
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I'm having a VERY long week at work work. This work week has been BRUTAL. The tape backup system went down on Monday (and is STILL down) and I am still getting pulled in all directions harder and harder.
This morning my boss called in a very angry tone to give me flak about leaving the company. I'm not a confrontational type of person or else I would have said something back. I have less and less regrets for leaving my current job. It's amazing how fast it continues to degrade after I announced my two weeks notice.
I was holding my breath for a few days but the risk paid off. I DID get the job offer. I start the Wed after I get home from Fursquared.
The job is a mere mile away from where I live. My commute will drop to near zero and should I want to get in shape this summer I have a means to do it. I could leave the car parked and take a 15 min ride to work via bike.
I now have no regrets of jumping the gun. It was a risk, and it seemed foolish at the time. Looking back I'm much more confident and relieved that I did what I did.
If I didn't put in my notice early I wouldn't be able to go to Fursquared. I would have had to scrap ALL of my plans and work through this for a few more days or reach the point where I just walked off the job, which could look bad to my new employer.
There's still going to be tensions with my old company as I found out today; but very very soon I'm done.
Four more days. Then I get to unwind at a con I am NOT taking on staff duties. And I come back, hopefully a much more optimistic and pleasant person- ready for the next adventure. Ready to take on an Election. Feeling in control for the first time in MONTHS rather then being under someone's boot toe...
Soon I will be free.
This morning my boss called in a very angry tone to give me flak about leaving the company. I'm not a confrontational type of person or else I would have said something back. I have less and less regrets for leaving my current job. It's amazing how fast it continues to degrade after I announced my two weeks notice.
I was holding my breath for a few days but the risk paid off. I DID get the job offer. I start the Wed after I get home from Fursquared.
The job is a mere mile away from where I live. My commute will drop to near zero and should I want to get in shape this summer I have a means to do it. I could leave the car parked and take a 15 min ride to work via bike.
I now have no regrets of jumping the gun. It was a risk, and it seemed foolish at the time. Looking back I'm much more confident and relieved that I did what I did.
If I didn't put in my notice early I wouldn't be able to go to Fursquared. I would have had to scrap ALL of my plans and work through this for a few more days or reach the point where I just walked off the job, which could look bad to my new employer.
There's still going to be tensions with my old company as I found out today; but very very soon I'm done.
Four more days. Then I get to unwind at a con I am NOT taking on staff duties. And I come back, hopefully a much more optimistic and pleasant person- ready for the next adventure. Ready to take on an Election. Feeling in control for the first time in MONTHS rather then being under someone's boot toe...
Soon I will be free.
if he pops in again on you like that, thank him for showing you the light - for pushing you so hard you went out and found something better.
unless you're hourly, no more overtime, no sweating. tape drives? yup, they die - have you ordered the parts yet? (saw one company that had never really tested their backups, 50 tapes and no data there to recover - we did a copy to some ide drives as an emergency backup ...)
I'll bet there are a dozen things you tried to warn them about that will all be coming to a head, but now there isn't enough time for you to explain how they might fix them - much less try to make you do it!