I even shined my shoes

February 24th, 2009 at 6:00 pm (New, Uncategorized, work)

Well I had another interview with the same company.
This would be the forth interview, but the first one that was in person.

So I figured that I only have one first impression, so I put on slacks, and then a white shirt (sans the colorful under shirts I like), and then a tie, and then suit coat, and then nice shoes. The shoes were skuffed, and I thought “only one time to make a first impression”, so I got out the polish kit. I didn’t want to redo my wardrobe, so I didn’t take it off, just polished extra careful. To top it off I wore my great coat, good thing I shaved and showered.

I arrived early, had all the info on me to fill in the paperwork, and some time to go over my resume.
Then the interviews started, I was supposed to have one with HR, one with the CEO, and a Tech interview.

Change of plans, it was to be one interview with me sitting opposite four people, HR, CFO, CEO, CIO, and the COD (chief operating dog).

Well I wasn’t about to say no, to the firing squad, or the dog, but since they all had copies of my resume, I pulled out mine, and my dote book, and wrote their names down as they introduced themselves. I got mentally ready as best I could and kept myself as colm and positive as possible.

The first question was a multi part question from the CIO which covered Networks, Exchange Email, and User Accounts. I was interupted 5 times during that questoin, and it took me over 5 minuets to finish, answering evern part and filling in all the details for each interruption. After that I was parched and got a Mt. Dew, and it was all smooth sailing from there. and one point I asked the CFO if she had a question becuase, I hadn’t heard from her in a bit. It lasted two hours, but we would have all spent more time, if none of us had other things to do.

At the end it was me and the HR guy and I asked him how he thought it went. He said I look like a good fit for the company personality wise, but they were not sure where to put me.

Still waiting on a call back, but hope to hear from them soon.

When I went to pick up the boys, it actauly took a few seconds for them to recognize me, because they are used to seeing me in my winter coat, and Russian hat.

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Bye bye crappy phone

February 4th, 2009 at 1:27 pm (New)

Well we canceled our Cell phone service with AT&T, since we really didn’t use it that much.

Olya’s phone number was moved over to a new phone and carrier, and my phone is now only a PDA, which is all it was ever good for anyway. As like to say my phone gets great reception in graveyards, but not so well in my home or at work.

It doesn’t help that the battery is going, as even a single call will drop the battery from the green zone to the orange zone.

This is also one of those money saving things that I do while looking for a job. If my new job (what ever it is) wants me to have a cell phone, they will probably provide one, and if they don’t I can always go get one.

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