So starting this week I am officially administrator for two new online applications at work.
These are applications I’ve been either working on or hoping for pretty much since I started here.
I feel like I will finally be a productive employee - a real value-add as they say.
But the real bonus is that I think I’ll really enjoy what I’m doing.
I’m actually looking forward to working - even if it means overtime.
Fortunately my boss is really cool about ensuring I take comp time for any over time I work
So in short I may have to work my ass off here but it will be worth it.
I try not to talk too much about work for fear of the dreaded “dooce” but I can be vague enough here and still get my story across. Some genralities you may need to know about where I work. The physical layout is large - probably 12 - 16 square miles. There’s a lot of construction. Safety and security are big issues here. Almost all of our construction is contracted out. It’s in Texas…stereotypes prevail.
Last week we were undergoing a secruity review. So we had representatives of Homeland Security onsite. Sometime Thursday afternoon a co-worker was talking with one of our employees who works with the construction crew. All of a sudden they looked around and no one was around. All the construction contractors had vanished like so much ice on a Texas summer sidewalk. Then a little murmur came across the nextel phone…”INS is here!”
The construction crews scrambled. I later heard stories of people hiding in ditches and leaping over under and through our fences. I heard of one guy who gashed his arm pretty well trying to get over a fence.
Evidently one of the Homeland Security reps works for the US Border Patrol. When he came through security he was announced as “Joe from Border Patrol” and a few of the construction crew personel heard it, spread the word, and they all went flying. He was also in full Border Patrol uniform…didn’t help the matter.
Take it as you will…but sometimes seeing stereotypes in actions is just amusing.