I've got an interview on Thursday in South Jordan, which is luckily only about a 10 minute drive up north from home. It looks like a pretty promising employer, making dental hygiene products. I took a look at company benefits, and they look to be above average.
I'm probably also going to try to get a part time job with UPS as a package handler. It should be a good job, not so much for money, but it will get me in good shape, which I kind of need motivation to do.
Wish me luck. It really sucks to not have a job.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
New Blog Title II
So, I've changed my blog title again. Why would I change my blog title from the coolest name ever to some bland name you might ask?
I lost my job with US Synthetic today. At work on Friday, I was trying to partition a hard drive that I was given so I could back up some computers. The computer that I chose to do my task did not give me the permission to partition or format hard drives, so I needed to get to another one. Unfortunately, the other computers were being used. So I sat and waited for one of them to vacate.
Then, the manager who spent all day in crappy cost cutting meetings came by, and saw 3 of his electricians just sitting there (mind you, nothing was broken, there were no maintenance calls at the time) I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, he called my staffing service that night to let me go, and told them that I was screwing around.
I had kind of expected to be let go anyways, but I'm a little bit upset that it was for what was perceived as a disciplinary problem. I'm hoping to be set up with another position soon within my employment agency.
I lost my job with US Synthetic today. At work on Friday, I was trying to partition a hard drive that I was given so I could back up some computers. The computer that I chose to do my task did not give me the permission to partition or format hard drives, so I needed to get to another one. Unfortunately, the other computers were being used. So I sat and waited for one of them to vacate.
Then, the manager who spent all day in crappy cost cutting meetings came by, and saw 3 of his electricians just sitting there (mind you, nothing was broken, there were no maintenance calls at the time) I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, he called my staffing service that night to let me go, and told them that I was screwing around.
I had kind of expected to be let go anyways, but I'm a little bit upset that it was for what was perceived as a disciplinary problem. I'm hoping to be set up with another position soon within my employment agency.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Aggravation
So, my last post dealt with one of the not so fun games that Mark and Ceri (or MarkCeri as Cam used to say) introduced to us.
Aggravation is one of the cool games they brought with them. We played it quite a bit, it's fast paced, so good for people with really short attention spans like us.
When they left, they took their gameboard with them. Jenn and I looked online for one, I guess Milton Bradley makes a really lame commercial version of it that we didn't want to buy. The homemade wood versions were going anywhere from 60-120 dollars... just for a board with holes drilled in it.
So I took it upon myself to make one. I bought some nice looking plywood, a 7/16" boring drillbit and a protractor. Ours is a 6 player board. It turned out OK, I've got to fill in some of the splinter marks with some putty.
I cut it by hand with a miter saw while it was clamped to one of our kitchen stools. Sure, it wasn't a big or even a difficult project, but I learned a few things. I liked making it, I like the smell of sawdust, and I need some power tools :)
Aggravation is one of the cool games they brought with them. We played it quite a bit, it's fast paced, so good for people with really short attention spans like us.
When they left, they took their gameboard with them. Jenn and I looked online for one, I guess Milton Bradley makes a really lame commercial version of it that we didn't want to buy. The homemade wood versions were going anywhere from 60-120 dollars... just for a board with holes drilled in it.
So I took it upon myself to make one. I bought some nice looking plywood, a 7/16" boring drillbit and a protractor. Ours is a 6 player board. It turned out OK, I've got to fill in some of the splinter marks with some putty.
I cut it by hand with a miter saw while it was clamped to one of our kitchen stools. Sure, it wasn't a big or even a difficult project, but I learned a few things. I liked making it, I like the smell of sawdust, and I need some power tools :)
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