The impossible has happened: I have a job!
Not the greatest in the world, but far from the worst. I'm reformatting
CVs for Hudson, the employment agency.
Plus sides are a relaxed office, nobody bothers you as long as you get
on with the work, free coffee.
Downside is that it's a bit repetitive. And I have to use loads of MS
crap (word, Outlook blah blah)
Naturally there are serious IT gripes. The biggest is that our computers
act as thin clients- the apps themselves are run on a server in... wait
for it... London! Only a few hundred miles away. A manager (who does
actually have PH but doesn't really qualify as a PHB for niceness /
sanity reasons) today informed me that running the apps on our own
servers wouldn't help the regular horrible slowdown, because our servers
are very fast and our pipe is as expensive as they could get... um...
Still, money in my wallet is a Very Good Thing (tm). And our in-house IT
is fantastic, the department's developed a bunch of macros that do half
the reformatting work for you.
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