WangNet

Yes.. yes I am. New weirdo guy has been here a week and a day. His first day he showed up in ratty jeans, a hoodie-shirt, and a pair of dirty sneakers. Okay. The next few days he cleaned up his dress code. Cool.

The first warning issue sounded a day into his working here when he was having a discussion with a secretary and dk regarding installing certain software that was outside his scope and responsibility (according to dk). So clearly n00b was asking for software that was a bit irregular.

The problem then migrated to the start of the week when I heard n00b asking one of our secretaries for blank cds.

Mkay.

Odd.

Then for the last few days prior to today I noticed n00b was burning MSDN isos to disks and copying down the product keys... ah.. what? Why would you back up the isos Microsoft stores for us on CDs? This can't be a good thing. It is very rare we would be burning things to a CD (when we can transfer them to the general server storage) or use a jump drive. I mean hell - I haven't burned a CD here... ever.

So being the curious bastard I am I sent an email out to the secretary next to the n00b and asked if this was legit. n00b was always a bit jumpy and what not when I walked by. It seems from said secretary he's been printing off quite a bit of paperwork and the secretary has "a bad feeling" about this guy.

Well in a brilliant expected/unexpected turn of events the secretary forwarded the email to her boss and mine. Doh.. I guess n00b is Jefe's pet and she sounded quite offended that we would question it. My guess is now I am no jefe's shit list.

I still don't trust him and I think he just got to work a few minutes ago.

Dear god, my new team is remedial and is painful to be in. Please strike them down with some malady or a genetic mutation to amuse me. kthnxbi!

I am now straddling two teams.. my existing one and the new 'dev team' which will be run by Clompers. Our first, of many, "just-us" meetings was today. It was an overload of buddy-buddy chat... information humor like calling our team the "A-Team" and using the tv show's van as our logo... and one guy was sputtering, throwing out negative slams on everyone's projects, pretending to be a know it all... and generally acting like a 3rd grader... but Clompers let it roll.

God I feel like I was pulled out of a normal class and dropped into a remedial tracked class. Fuck this.

The best part was Mr.3rd-grader asked me as we left the meeting that I seemed pissed and not humored by his antics. Short of breaking his jaw with an upper cut I calmly brushed it off as having an over load of work to do with my current team and these sorts of meetings are a waste of my time.

Have some f'n decorum people. I get this is going to be the super-cool-relaxed-team-everyone-wants-to-join but damnit this is interfering with me actually getting work done... trying to push me into a role of actually caring about the schleps around me in this department... and being too cutesy/creepily-friendly. Not my style. I want out.

Oh and clompers wanted a time line of work from Sticks and I regarding the rest of CB. Really? Seriously?
A. That is not stick's job in any universe.
B. Why don't you ask the people that know - Mark and I?
C. Why did you specifically exclude jefe, dk, and mark?

Really? Tuesday I had issues logging into to production... I threw in a service ticket off our new service desk. No biggie. Then I got another guy to give me back access. Mkay.. then I noticed today that I didn't have access to time sheets, our benefits system, viewing paychecks, and what not. Panic set in.. What... the... fuck. A flurry of emails and it was determined Tuesday morning my PBS id was given to terminate another employee. I suspect bloopers was the one they were trying to remove.

So mild panic attack regarding paychecks, vacation, insurance, 401k, and the like go through my head. I think I got most of it taken care of... we shall see.

Two days of district meetings. Ugg... I gotta be down there at 8am... fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge..

On the bright side the employee night Thursday is a mock casino night at Western Heritage Museum... maybe I can win myself a wii or something fun. Friday night is a dinner at the zoo... mmmm... roasted o-rang...