Chicago

movie kicks much ass. The title track is STUCK in my head and I’m totally okay with that. Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones are awesome. Richard Gere is good, until he starts the musical numbers. Some of them definitely do NOT sound like him. All told though, it’s a kickass movie. The soundtrack is sure to stay in my car’s CD player for weeks to come… The job hunt has officially started. On Monday I finally updated my resume, and yesterday I submitted to Dice.com and sent off several to various companies with listings. Some of which I will pursue vigorously. I’ve made a few changes, so if you haven’t seen it in a while, take a look and tell me what you think. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my last job, how it ended and how I feel about it. To be brutally honest, I’m glad to be gone from there. I inherited all the unhappiness that my predecessor had and I don’t think I meshed too well with some of the management. I wish them will in the future and hope that they keep producing quality products. I do miss some of the good people I worked with. Hopefully our paths will cross again someday. I will say that how it all went down I’m not very happy with. I was told that I would get paid through the end of the pay period, but then I got a tiny paycheck. Supposedly they’ve deducted from it the hours I was in the hole for with Vacation and Sick Time. What I was told over the phone and what my previous pay stub are off by about 5 hours and I certainly didn’t get paid for a full two weeks. As soon as I get my pay stub in the mail, I’ll be making a phone call and sending a few emails to get things straightened out. If they decided they weren’t going to pay me for the full two weeks, I wish they would have told me to begin with. I really would have been fine with that. The discrepancy with the negative vacation/sick hours though is very upsetting and I will get some resolution on that matter. The next issue is whether or not I’ll actually receive unemployment insurance. I actually did apply for it this time. I really should have applied for it after getting laid off from Transmeta, but I figured it’d be easier to get some part-time work instead of live on unemployment. Ugh. WRONG. <sigh> Fortunately things did, after all, fall into place for me and they all worked out in the end. I do think that things will work out in the end for me this time. I do have faith in that area. I know that as long as I do the footwork required of me and keep trying to get my resume out, something is bound to line up sooner or later. (And hopefully SOONER rather than later!) Hopefully I’ll find a job that I actually like this time and will want to keep. Maybe I’ll grow up one of these days, too, and learn that I really need to do a good job regardless. After all, if I don’t like the next job, it is easier to look for work while you have a job, than while you’re unemployed. Anyhow, I think I’m rambling now. If I’m gonna start writing like this, I might as well start working on my Fourth Step. So with that, I’m outta here for the night. Thanks for visiting and Keep Coming Back!!!]]>

6 thoughts on “Chicago”

  1. Dude. I think I’ve read this story already. And this could possibly be attributed to the fact that it’s A WEEK OLD. Tell us what you’ve been up to – not like you don’t have enough time on your hands to put a few thoughts into words…

  2. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don’t get your panties in a bunch. I’ll get something put up here later on today. It’ll probably have something concerning my job hunt success (or lack thereof), my income situation, and your bike and the liberation I feel being able to ride it. πŸ˜‰
    Stay tuned. πŸ™‚

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