Exit Interview

I know, two posts in the same day. Don't you all go dieing on me now.

So I got a wonderful letter from my former place of employment's HR department requesting my feedback on the company. It was an exit interview/survey. Oh the fun I had filling this out. It consisted of several questions regarding the overall company as well as several about my manager above me. The company as a whole I gave a middle of the road response to with shots being fired at specific things that bothered me. My manager on the other hand, they are gonna love reading about him. I made very clear the level of ineptitude this man exhibited on a regular basis and his role in the majority of a solid staff leaving the company. I also had the chance to talk about any "unknown issues" HR might want to know about. Guess how large the part about my Assistant Manager's experience was? I even made sure to include the little part about a rather non-responsive RD. It made me smile to put this in the mail this morning. I hope for once the shit rolls uphill. When you got enough people pushing it it can happen. We shall see.

P.S. I actually found two grammar/spelling errors on the exit interview. Want to know what I wrote in for the questions regarding my boss's and corporate's ability to communicate?

First day at the new job

So I was officially an hour late for my first day at my new job. Luckily it wasn't an issue. They had changed to a 4 days at 10 hrs schedule in the period between me being hired and when I started. Beyond that it was a rather interesting first day. I am working on the most annoying "game" you could possibly imagine....no really, try harder because I am sure you haven't grasped the monotony that will be consuming my time for at least the first couple of weeks of my work. I will tell you all more about it once I see you all.

That being said I managed to crash and corrupt the program I was working on with one of the things I tried while testing it. Nothing like getting congratulated for breaking something on your first day. I decided I wanted to see what would happen if I called the phone I was testing while in the middle of a download of an expansion pack for the "game". It dies. It dies a horrible terrible death that doesn't even let you back into the program once it kicks your ass out for being so cruel an heartless to it. Retesting that bug for consistency was fun. Nothing like having to wipe the program off the phone and reinstall it each time you kill it to make sure the bug is repeatable. Not to mention I found it at 11:45 right before everyone was suppose to go home. Woohoo.

Overall it was an interesting first day. I am glad to be doing something new even if it is repetitive. Looking at the others in the lab it should be no problem to jump up the ladder rather quickly. Hard work doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary. Hardly working does though. I am looking forward to working hard at work and then enjoying my 3 day weekends. It shouldn't be too bad.

TTFN