unfortunately i am back at work today and back in the land of nonesense. ozzy is sitting opposite me today and for some bizarre reason is breathing really heavily in a slightly perverted manner. i don't know whats up with that, maybe he is practicing for a few phone calls he is going to make later today. its really quite loud and quite annoying, so i have put my headphones on and am listening to my music. people can't even breath properly in this place!!. i told you investment banks were full of weirdos and idiots.
office is pretty dead again today like it was last week, but i have a bit of work to be getting on with so i will try and get something done. last week i mentioned i had to raise a change request to get someone to LOOK at the back of a server. this weeks idiotic task is that i have to raise a change request to restart a few servers. you can not imagine how many people have been involved in getting a few servers shutdown and restarted. i kid you not, when i say around 8 people and its probably taken around 12-14 man-days to arrange for the restart of a few servers. its absolutely astonshing. honestly, if i hadn't seen it for myself and been involved in the whole mess i would never have believed it if someone had told me. utter madness.
i saw that virgin atlantic have some cheap fares to LA and san fracisco for next year. am very tempted to book a ticket. will see how things pan out over the next few weeks.
i have my meeting next week about that other job as well, and i really am hoping it comes through. it would be fucking awesome and especially so, as it gets me out of this place.
watched the film HEAT with robert de niro and al pacino recently and there is a scene where one of the gang of robbers gets beaten up badly for information at his his house. robert de niro goes looking for him and finds him laying on the floor in a pool of blood. de niro says he is going to call an ambulance for him but the guys who can barely talk, whispers "i am not going to make it, i can't feel anything", "don't leave me like this". and so de niro shoots him to spare him suffering.
thats a bit like me at this bank but in a slightly less violent way and without the blood loss and beatings that preceded it. i might whisper it to the guy in my interview next week "i can't feel my brain","don't leave me like this". ha ha ha!!!.
speaking of things you should never say in an interview i had an interview with microsoft around a year ago. it was my second interview there and i was talking to a couple of the people that were hiring in their MSN/web and search division. one of the guys asked me what i did when i couldn't find a solution to a problem, to which i replied i tended just to "google it" and see what came back.
after being quite relaxed through the interview the guys expression visibly turned to a frown when i mentioned google. he replied "er, or you LIVE search it!". i actually don't use live search which is microsofts search engine because its lame, but after seeing his frown i replied "oh yes, live seach as well".
jesus, get over yourself dude. stop being so petty. google are bigger and better than you at web search. its a fact and there is no need to be hating on them. live search is shit at the moment and thats a fact as well, that microsoft acknowledges because they tried to buy yahoo a few months after my interviews there.
anyways, no surprises when i tell you i didn't get the job. they said it was because i hadn't worked anywhere big. yeah whatever!. some people have no sense of humour. anyways, thats a top tip for interviewing - don't mention their bitterest and more successful rival in an interview. another example would be going for an interview at boeing and saying how wonderful the new airbus super-jumbos are or maybe having an interview at chrysler and saying you like ford mustangs. anyway i don't care. thats just the way i am i guess. i wanted to see if they had a sense of humour and they clearly didn't. would have been a good job but you know what, i think i might have got bored of it after a while.
today i have mostly been listening to blind melon - no rain.
take care flower.
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