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[rone]

Soon after going to lunch with our whole team and all the DBAs to say goodbye to the departing DBA manager (to which i contributed a bottle of Concha y Toro Casillero del Diablo 2003 Carménère), my boss's resignation was announced by his boss.  We had a little meeting where o-boss (who is in Newton, MA) told us that the DMC manager volunteered to be our interim manager for two weeks... so far, i'm not surprised, and going by the stony silence in the conference room, neither is anyone else. 

Later, we go out for beers, and my boss tells me that DCM manager was less than thrilled at being volunteered into being our interim manager; he said that DCM manager was afraid that we would hate him.  Well, i guess he's smarter than i gave him credit.  I asked my boss a few questions about how i should address my e-mail announcing my intentions to o-boss, then, after i finished my beer, i walked to the train station, took advantage of the open WAP, fired up the VPN and e-mailed o-boss.

Oh, i neglected to mention that o-boss went on paternity leave this morning.  THE UNIVERSE MOCKS ME.  Anyhow, i expect that o-boss will set up a phone call sometime next week.  Until then, i shall chew my nails to the knuckles.

Comments

[chakaal.livejournal.com]

er. hang in there.

And if you haven't seen it already, you can update your South Park icon at -

http://www.planearium2.de/flash/spstudio.html

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Eh, i like mine. But i really like yours.

Also, the official site is http://images.southparkstudios.com/games/create/.

[chakaal.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you cannot dres橲P as a CRUSADER at the official site.

[pvaneynd]

Paternity leave is how long? (3 months full time here)
Anyway, I wish you the best of luck, from the story there might not be that much opposition from the DMC manager, so that at least is good.

[bungo.livejournal.com]

"My plan is working, Pinky"

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

NARF!

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean about chewing nails to knuckles. Having put my application in to the Cambridge UCS, where it was a nice to have, every passing day has seemed to be worse, and my boss has been rubbing it in that he doesn't think I do a good job. Admittedly I don't like to be told by suppliers that they've de-prioritised my tickets because it's actually a customer problem, and so I'd prefer to be absolutely sure, rather than just balance-of-probabilities likely that it's not our kit that's at fault. And, when I say that "I'm fed up of this loop, could someone else please phone the supplier", that's what I mean. I just want to be out of here now. The board have made their position clear, they think I deserve an approximately inflationary rise, for doing a completely different job, and now they've got me wanting to just stick two fingers up at them... oh well....

Good luck with yours!

[purple-terror.livejournal.com]

If you want me to wander down the road and poke the o-boss, just say the word. :-)

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

Good luck. Also, I'm extremely impressed that you found some Concha y Toro which wasn't swill.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, you gotta be sure it's the Casillero del Diablo label. All of that stuff is their best.

[bear015.livejournal.com]

I find that to be very tasty myself. :)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You gonna update your journal now?

[bear015.livejournal.com]

Haha. Yeah, It might be time for my annual update.