WangNet

Yes, I was laid off due to "lack of work in my area" - a work pipeline intentionally dried up by the folks on high.

Six of us, of note Sticks, Wheezy/UberGeek, and BJ included.

This sucks.

A lot.

Ten years at FDR and I juked every seasonal layoff and now I get nabbed here? At Kiewit? What hurts more is how much I cared for this company. I drank the koolaide, I was enthralled when the old timers who talked about how Pete built this company on the foundation of its people as the number one asset. How every other construction company has the same opportunities, equipment, and materials but we make the difference in the dedication, loyalty, and skills of our people. I believed in the sole purpose of Information Technology was to assist the field in making their lives easier and more streamlined. Increase the number of craft folk while decreasing the support staff needed. I loved our projects we worked on... I loved going out to the field to visit the job site where Krick's brother worked.

... and now this.

I am being pulled into a meeting with: a handful of developers, a designer, our HR, and my boss's boss. The request was only a subject line of "OneIM Review" and the body said "Make sure to be back from lunch for this". Ah.. what? Paranoia abounds. My boss wasn't aware of the meeting and had a very quiet response.

Maybe my next post will be from home...

Coming from dk's mouth: "We are going to prototype it, distribute it to about eighty people to beta test, and get our requirements from that beta testing.".... ah... what?

Falloutboy was over in the land of milk and honey - aka our CenterStreet facilities - this last week and taunted me with the pixie stix over there.. through a fit of awesomeness he brought me a fist full. I have been nom nom nomming on these all day and aware him gold star of the day for doing this.

Side note I will be applying for a job with UP here.. I am a bit lacking on a few of their recommended skill criteria, but really - how hard can Oracle be when you already have a firm choke hold on SQL?

I vaguely remember reading this story line - well let's be frank skimming was the name of the game back in the day (a Wednesday, right Dane Cook?) - and it wasn't until recently it surfaced from the murky depths of foggy bottom to hook me all over again. I am addicted to reading this well put out story. Yes.. Yes.. I read the latest chapter and then started back in at the bottom - "Futons Your Girlfriend Will Hate". I am on chapter sixteen of twenty four and having problems not reading it. I must suffice with paragraphs at a time between sequence diagrams. Bastard work in always in the way making me avoid the fun in this story.

Yes.. yes.. I am diagramming only the interesting parts DK... yes I am starting in small subsets of use-cases. Callooh! Callay!