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Still Here July 12, 2004 12:00 am |
Still gettin' used to working five eights a week. First time I've had those kind of hours since a layoff-related demotion at my last place of employment almose exactly three years ago. Ever since then it had been four 10-hour days.
Still haven't decided whether or not I'm gonna like the job. Training's going well, but we haven't done any demo phone calls yet. For those who are interested, I'm doing Customer Service for a major satellite television provider. As for which one, I'd rather not say anything that could easily be Googled, but a thorough search through previous rants will spell it out: it's the one I've had my programming with since 1997.
For similar reasons I'd rather not mention by name the company that laid me off, but here's a hint: they're a major telecommunications company that recently came out of bankruptcy. Current news stories will mention that the company is suing its former CEO to get back a bunch of the money they gave him, presumably bonuses for a good job, before they found out he was fiddling with the books.
One more item on Things That I Don't Want Googled: back in January of last year I had come up with my version of The List: the five celebrities I would sleep with given the opportunity, and my Significant Other, provided I ever get one, would have to let me. The list was amended slightly last August (scroll down to Entry 71).
In both previous entries I mentioned that Choice #5 was underage, so I couldn't mention the name. Well, that 18th birthday has passed, so the name can be told. But, again for Googling reasons, I don't wanna. So here's some hints:
Choice #5 is actually two girls, born about ten minutes apart to the same mother, they turned 18 last month, and are worth millions. I realize that should actually count as Choices 5 & 6, but for the purposes of The List, they'd have to be a package deal. Nobody wants just one of them. Not even the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce when the girls asked for separate stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame instead of just one, and were turned down.
As soon as I can get vidcaps made of all five of them I also have The List, Part Deux: five people who have been on television, but more than likely you don't know their names. In some instances you'll recognize them immediately, though, like that lady in the Leptoprin commercial, she's on it.
Not much else to say right now, haven't done much weird internet surfing recently, mainly because we don't have
internet access in the training room, and won't have any when we hit the floor (you have to get past CSR status
before you even get an email address). Still, I'll try not to go this far between entries. 2:20am
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The Ups-n-Downs of Life in the Call Center Capital of the World July 26, 2004 12:00 am |
Yeah, yeah, I know I said I wasn't gonna stay away so long between entries. But I've started to realize that, after spending eight hours in front of a computer monitor at work, I would prefer not to sit in front of one as soon as I get home. I've basically been doing my daily surfing, then plop down on the couch and watch TV the rest of the night. Once I get used to it maybe things'll settle down.
Did want to mention a couple of thing that happened over the past few days: a highest-of-high and a lowest-of-low. Let's start with the latter:
While returning from some shopping after work on Friday, I was going down I-44, at dusk, in the middle of a massive thunderstorm. Because of the blinding rain, everyone was going about 40 down the highway. Everyone, that is, except for the idiot in the sports car who felt slowing down was for wusses. The same idiot who, while coming from the other direction on the highway between Harvard & Yale, spun out at what appeared to be about 70, doing a 720 (that's two 360s) across the median, and into oncoming traffic. Specifically, straight toward me! I quickly veered from the left lane to the right and floored it, and the only way I made it through unscathed was the fact that there wasn't anyone else in the right lane. I didn't wait around to see if he hit anyone behind me. I think not, because at that speed if he did hit another car someone would have easily died, and I didn't see it on the news.
At the other end of the spectrum, learned some very interesting news today. Back in the fall of '96 I was working at the then-new West Campus of Tulsa Community College. Well, nobody was sure how the rooms had been numbered, and the campus's first fall semester was going to start soon. So, while I had the time, I researched the place and wound up making a map of the campus on the computer. I didn't have any sort of graphic or cad program so make the map with, so I used the best program I had: Microsoft Office. I designed the campus map using an Excel spreadsheet. Today at work I met someone attending classes at the West Campus, and to help him get around they gave him a map.
My map.
That's right, the campus map I made pretty much as just a courtesy using an Excel spreadsheet eight years ago is still being used as the official campus map.
I am so stoked! 11:23pm
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The 268th Sign of the Apocalypse July 27, 2004 12:00 am |
New cable channel appearing on British TV: The Advert Channel.
That's right, a channel of and about nothing
but commercials! 9:40am
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