Psychotomy

today was the pseudo-annual “dog and pony show” as my boss calls it. it’s where he goes and talks about how great the site is and stuff and tries to con people into giving us money for another year :o

amusing thing — i’m way more acknowledged, respected and skilled now that i’m leaving … normally i’m a blip on the radar, today i was mentioned numerous times, including a comment on the fact that i was leaving and they’re going to be hard put to replace me. OK, so that part is a sop to the guy leaving, right?

except they’re breaking my job in twain. sysadmin and programming. sysadmin they’re trying to pass off to the unix support team (which is gonna cost them a nice sum of money; 50k/yr at the rack rates, but there’ll be some fudging of numbers b/c not all of the machines are network-facing, and their manager is our manager, yadda yadda). programming, he’s talking to the science support team at HQ and looking into passing off some of hte work to them, since they want to leverage some of our content.

which means they’re looking to hire someone to do like 25-50% of what i do now. they’re callign my job 3 people. AND I’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR FOUR AND A HALF YEARS?? and getting nothing but crap b/c everything takes so damned long?

eesh

strangely, i’m feeling remorse about leaving. not b/c i liked the job at this point, but b/c i’ve been there 4.5 years. and i’ve got my workstation all nicely set up and everything happy like that. and i’ve got some friends. but, yaknow, for the grief i’ve gotten and the pay i’m going to get … i’ll just take an extra happy pill each morning for a week or something and get over it :)

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also got a note from the new job, i get training for like half of monday. the first half will probably be trying to figure out how to get in to the damned building without my badge so i can get my badge, then finding my office, and an hour or so looking for the bathrooms and soda machines :)

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