blink and the cure

And i thought my job was not very challenging. I went to one of the banks other datacentres yesterday and there is a guy there whose job is to decommission servers. He does the paperwork and removes the monitoring and then switches them off and takes them out of the rack. Thats all he does. Oh my god!. How dull is that. it makes my job look good. Dude, get out of here and start using your brain a little. He has been here years doing what he does. I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t.

Had an interview this morning. It went ok but i got a bit worried when he asked me how my excel skills were. i am a server engineer and i don’t do excel pal!. I didn’t say that but i did give the impression that excel was not something i have any skill in or am interested in. If you want someone to fill in spreadsheets all day you have got the wrong man here and you should interview someone else.

We’ll see how it goes. Not bothered about it really. Got an exam this Friday. Would like to back up all these exams with some good experience and exposure now. Some guy in the other office yesterday was taking loudly to the guy that works with me, about all the exams he was doing. He had his certificates posted up in his cubicle and was showing off his transcripts. thats not cool dude.

“yes, i have passed 3 now, and am going to do the next one in a couple of months”.

the guy that works with me then said, “you should talk to (me) about exams as he is always doing them”.

“oh yeah, how many exams have you done?” he shouted across to me.

“Errr....19”, i replied. He quietened down a bit, after that. :-)

Something good will come through soon. I was still at the internet company this time last year. We have come a long way and there is a little further yet to go but we are hopeful.

have noticed something else recently at work. seems like the other guys seem to have gotten used to me being around and trust me so i have noticed that they have started to come into the office less. they tend to plan to work from one of the other offices closer to where they live, one or two days a week or they work from home sometimes. they can also go missing for hours at a time during the day when they are in.

its up to them if they want to do that but sometimes i need to ask a question about stuff and they aren't around when i need to know something. have been quite a few occasions when i am the only one here in the office. its turning into a little annoyance at the moment but its fine. only 5 weeks left till i tell them i won't be staying. enjoy it while you can fellas.

Today i have mostly been listening to blink 182 – all of this. Robert Smith from the cure does the vocals on this song. 2 of my favourite artists on the same song. it was always going to be good.....and it is.

Take care flower.