April 2002 recovered photos – Throwback Thursday
recovered from April 1, 2002 – Gaming, slice o’ Scotto life in SoFla. It was a Monday, back when I worked the graveyard shift at IMT.
Original post from April 1, 2002 – refers to jet’s pizza guy, doc and work.
april 1, 2002 part 1 – Doctor trip
superheroes… for freedom force, I think.
laundry @ federal hwy in pompano
laundry @ federal hwy in pompano
Jet’s pizza guy handing out fliers. I remember it being alternately rainy and sunny… felt bad for the person inside.
jets pizza guy in traffic
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3/21/03 11:18 am
Interview went very well, two positions are possible - content manager / database programmer
Both look quite nice, and the company seems very close-knit and friendly. It's a Mac shop, but Unix is Unix. OSX shouldn't be vastly different than mandrake.
He asked about freelance for a week or two beforehand, so they could be sure of a good fit, and i agreed. I think that I lean a bit towards the content management... that may have growth potential into the other gig, but gives time to hone my skills in the direction the company can use best.
3/21/03 8:21 pm
Heading home. -UT was ok, except that so many people brought personal machines that the hours from about 5.30 to maybe 7.45 were spent by me getting the smelly win XP laptops configured and shared properly. I'll say it again...WinXP is no winner. I did win the one full game that i did manage to play, if that's any consolation. Maybe i was successful as a result of my annoyance with Horace’s slow, blurry-screened POS.-But Horace was good about waiting patiently, to his credit.
Clark and his friend were the outside ringers... Bheesh's son and Santie did surprisingly well, considering how new to the game they are. Didn’t get to eval Kev, Finn, or Doug much, but Sappho gave me a run for my money in that powerpuff skin of hers. You try shooting at bubbles!
Next time (if there is one) there should be a no new skins rule. Or at least email the skin to all players at least 72 hours in advance.
I've sent off my thank you letter to my most recent interview already... I really liked the place.
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Today at work…
Dec 15, 1999
I came terribly close to being fired today. Due to a breakdown in communications, terribly rude people, and my own temper. During the course of the day, I was continuously called upon to act as a liason between two departments that only have a cursory relation to what I do at work. I started out polite, but slowly was worn down to just civil. (I’d say I was at about five out of ten, tolerance-wise.) After doing some data clean-up and minor programming, (my actual job) I get a message from K. "Just checking to make sure this file was done properly, I couldn’t give D an answer, mainly because I didn’t know." No problem, I’ll call up D and clarify, and get information on other data in the meantime, killing two birds with one stone. She responds with nonsensical questions, and general venom. It boiled down to her angrily stating "Why Don’t you answer my questions?" and my reply of "Ask one, and I’ll give you an Answer…" She responded with some sort of epithet and hung up on me. (One of my buttons is "Don’t hang up, Don’t turn your back on me while we’re conversing. I need good closure to any talk.)At that point, I saw red, and trotted over there at top speed and proceeded to Bellow, along the lines of "Don’t you dare hang up on me…" to which she responded with "How dare you talk to me like that?" and it proceeded to snowball into a volley of verbal noise. After a moment or two of yelling, I basically told her to shut up if she couldn’t say anything intelligible, and she told me to get out. So I got out, with a parting remark of "Do all of us a favor, Eat $#!+ and die." She promptly calls the boss, and he bounces to an impartial third party. Long story short, I get a reprieve due to D’s long history of poor social intercourse, and mine of being more possessed of my senses (save for this current adventure.) So, I don’t get fired, but it looks like the raise (of which i’ve been due since June) is no longer going to be considered for a while. Bah.
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Dec 15, 1999
I came terribly close to being fired today. Due to a breakdown in communications, terribly rude people, and my own temper. During the course of the day, I was continuously called upon to act as a liason between two departments that only have a cursory relation to what I do at work. I started out polite, but slowly was worn down to just civil. (I'd say I was at about five out of ten, tolerance-wise.) After doing some data clean-up and minor programming, (my actual job) I get a message from K. "Just checking to make sure this file was done properly, I couldn't give D an answer, mainly because I didn't know." No problem, I'll call up D and clarify, and get information on other data in the meantime, killing two birds with one stone. She responds with nonsensical questions, and general venom. It boiled down to her angrily stating "Why Don't you answer my questions?" and my reply of "Ask one, and I'll give you an Answer..." She responded with some sort of epithet and hung up on me. (One of my buttons is "Don't hang up, Don't turn your back on me while we're conversing. I need good closure to any talk.)At that point, I saw red, and trotted over there at top speed and proceeded to Bellow, along the lines of "Don't you dare hang up on me..." to which she responded with "How dare you talk to me like that?" and it proceeded to snowball into a volley of verbal noise. After a moment or two of yelling, I basically told her to shut up if she couldn't say anything intelligible, and she told me to get out. So I got out, with a parting remark of "Do all of us a favor, Eat $#!+ and die." She promptly calls the boss, and he bounces to an impartial third party. Long story short, I get a reprieve due to D's long history of poor social intercourse, and mine of being more possessed of my senses (save for this current adventure.) So, I don't get fired, but it looks like the raise (of which i've been due since June) is no longer going to be considered for a while. Bah.