This feels weird...

Well, this is it. I leave soon.
I'll be going to a new job. No more Kristen. No more Nick or Scott. No Edie or K.C. or Ebai either.
I might recognize a few people who left PBS&J once upon a time, but not many.

This feels weird.

I don't know if I'll be able to forgive PBS&J. Not yet. The wounds are too fresh and too deep. I may never be able to forgive people like Nick or Kristen for their complicity in that pathetic excuse for a first job. I've told PBS&J what my issues were. Twice. Both to Human Resources and a guy named Gary Guhl (our... THEIR Senior Engineer) who really always felt like a good egg.
Wouldn't it be funny if both of them ended up being excused from PBS&J? Oh, gods, yes.
I wonder if Kristen or Nick would even consider applying to Baker. Heh. That could be interesting.
Alot of What Ifs there, though.

Hey, I just thought of something... I don't feel the need to make this friends only. I don't CARE if they read this. There isn't much they can do to me anymore. They can't fire me. I've already left!

Anyways...

The future few weeks will be.. difficult.
Now.. now is the time I have to sort through all the bullshit decisions, the conflicting advice, all of it.. and figure out what nuggets of information are good and which are pure drivel.
It's terribly tempting to mail Nick once I figure it all out and teach him how to do his job.

Hey, Gary said something I always suspected but never knew.
He admitted that, when the FEMA contract started, they made people supervisors simply because they were there.
When Kristen said that there was a reason Nick was team lead, there was. It was because he was there.
I fucking KNEW it!

So.. yeah.
I'll post when I can to tell you how my day was.
And probably to give PBS& that last "Fuck You" as a year of damage to my ego is peeled away and, hopefully, the real engineer inside me gets to come out and do his job exactly like everyone else, including me.. once, knew he could.
...
That confused me :)

Hasta!

First Impressions

God, this place is busy. There are TONS of people here, going in and out, up and down, all around. There are five floors (I don't know if they're ALL Baker, but at least two are...). The break room has two refrigerators, completely stock, four microwaves, three vending machines.
This place is B-I-G big.
There is a deli.. somewhere in the building.. exhoberant prices, but this is Alexandria. Also, there's a shuttle that can take me to and from either the Eisenhower or Van Dorn Metro Station, thus saving me money, which is good! :D
There are currently five people in this whole office, who belong to Watershed Concepts. Three programers, Manas and myself.
Apparently the programmers, and hopefully Manas, want to take me out Wednesday or Thursday to lunch.
Other good news is.. Manas expects me to work Smart and Hard, but hopefully not long. Overtime is a distinct possibility, but he doesn't want to work it and doesn't expect me to unless I need to. If I need to, it's expected.
I've got a computer, but no account of my own yet, so I'm logged on under Because Angie left, I've been given her old cubicle. That means I'm right near Manas, but alas, right off one of the main paths, so it gets noisy here.
The cubicle is OK. It'll be better tommorow when I bring a few things of my own in, like my kitty calendar :)
Computer's not bad, if I may say. It's definately newer. I'd say it's a year old, give or take. Running Win XP Professional.
I WAS running on a four or five year old computer running Windows NT Patch 6 back at PBS&J.

What else?
I was up at god awful in the morning (3:30, I think) and couldn't get back to sleep.
Started dressing at 5:30.
Got out the door at 6:20
And.. arrived at Baker at 7:30
I'll be planning on waking up a LITTLE later tommorow (like half an hour!)
Especially given the shuttle from Eisenhower. That's cool. That's happy by me :)

Waiting for Manas to return. Should be getting real work soon. Yes, already.

I'm now.. right just this minute now.. FINALLY feeling excited about this brave new adventure in my life.
It's a little scary, with the hordes of people around me, but I think I'm finally ready to be excited about a new job.
Yay! :)

*postifies and waits for Manas to show up with real work*

Edit: Upside and DOwnside: I can get to my home email now, from here. But no more webcomics or game sites. Wow, I may need to work while at work ;p

Note to self.. Look into a portable fan. It's HOT in here. :p

Son of Edit: I think I've got a VOIP phone. The phone has an IP address...
Neat! :)

Grandson of Edit: I'm really feeling confident here. This stuff, as so far, is all.. stuff I know and have seen. Woot-nyo!

Great Grandson of Edit: It'd be really nice if the headache of doom went away now. I KNOW I'm tired. Stop, already :p Note to self, remember my headache pills tommorow :p

Great Great Grandson of Edit: Gods above, they have diet dr. pepper in their vending machine. A can for $0.50. Woot :) I loves it here :D