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Jul. 5th, 2005
I have to go to Vernon today. The only plus side is the start-time of the meeting got moved late enough in the day that I didn't have to fly out yesterday. Only two months left to this crappy job...
Now is the Time on Sprockets...
Jul. 5th, 2005 08:20 am...When we make 14 bored posts from the airport.
I've got an hour to kill before boarding. The odd time I had to go to Williams Lake for the old company it was just show up at the terminal and get on the copmany jet and go. None of this hurry up and wait crap.
I don't mind this when the destination is somewhere interesting, like New York, Toronto, Chicago, etc. - but the whole "check in one hour before boarding" thing and wasting no less than two hours of my life for the sake of a five-hour meeting in a windowless room in Vernon simply sucks ass.
I'm such a zombie this morning I forgot to take off my Blackberry before going through the metal detector. Better here than the Kelowna airport, though. Kelowna being the financial and communications hub that it is, the security is tighter than any major airport I've ever been to. Perhaps they don't realise that the reason that the Japanese internment camps were put in the interior during WWII is because there is nothing of any importance in the area? More likely they don't have anything more interesting to do in their lives than make people take off their shoes.
Today's big meeting is to define the requirements for the new corporate intranet. With two months left in my retention term the worst possible outcome of this meeting would be a job offer to program and maintain the new intranet.
Getting such a job offer would screw me out of my severence package and force me to stay with this crap company for several more months. The conditions of my term state that if I'm offered alternate employment within the company I'm no longer entitled to the severance, even if I turn down the offer. If the offer is significantly different than the job I was hired for (for example, requiring me to work out of Vernon rather than Vancouver) I could bring on a constructive dismissal suit and maybe still have some money left after the lawyers get theirs.
I've got an hour to kill before boarding. The odd time I had to go to Williams Lake for the old company it was just show up at the terminal and get on the copmany jet and go. None of this hurry up and wait crap.
I don't mind this when the destination is somewhere interesting, like New York, Toronto, Chicago, etc. - but the whole "check in one hour before boarding" thing and wasting no less than two hours of my life for the sake of a five-hour meeting in a windowless room in Vernon simply sucks ass.
I'm such a zombie this morning I forgot to take off my Blackberry before going through the metal detector. Better here than the Kelowna airport, though. Kelowna being the financial and communications hub that it is, the security is tighter than any major airport I've ever been to. Perhaps they don't realise that the reason that the Japanese internment camps were put in the interior during WWII is because there is nothing of any importance in the area? More likely they don't have anything more interesting to do in their lives than make people take off their shoes.
Today's big meeting is to define the requirements for the new corporate intranet. With two months left in my retention term the worst possible outcome of this meeting would be a job offer to program and maintain the new intranet.
Getting such a job offer would screw me out of my severence package and force me to stay with this crap company for several more months. The conditions of my term state that if I'm offered alternate employment within the company I'm no longer entitled to the severance, even if I turn down the offer. If the offer is significantly different than the job I was hired for (for example, requiring me to work out of Vernon rather than Vancouver) I could bring on a constructive dismissal suit and maybe still have some money left after the lawyers get theirs.
Still Working on the Redesign
Jul. 5th, 2005 11:31 pm
I added my Artist's Bio to the site tonight. I have to force myself to stop tweaking the text now. I never much liked the first draft and putting it on the new website had me looking at it fresh, adding new material, fixing grammatical errors, and then rewording chunks of it. Writing about oneself in the third-person seems inherently pretentious and embarrassing to me, so I find it hard to not be overly critical of the bio. It's better than the version I started with three hours ago, but I doubt I'll ever be really happy with it. Time to quit and get some sleep.