Work update
16 March 2006 at 9:10 am by Jason 22 views
I haven’t had much time to work on my blog this last week. My job has been very stressful in a lot of ways. First off, we’ve layed off 10 people (this won’t be the only cut-back in staff, and I’m worried about my job). Second, our paychecks this week may be delayed. It’s not definate, but there’s a good chance we’ll be paid late. Not good when you have bills on the way.
There’s more, but it’s a lot of little things. Overall, it’s a nice heaping bowl full o’ stress. I just hope I can get through this and keep my job. I don’t want to have to go out looking for a new one. 
Oh well… back to the ol’ grind, I hope all is well today.
Well, Jess and I went to the funeral yesterday. It was filled with so many people that it got to the point where it was standing room only. Ex-employees, current employees, friends, family, and other businessmen (including those who are technically our competitors) all showed up. It was a very large church, and it barely fit everyone inside.
We had never been to a Catholic funeral before, so it was interesting to see. It’s pretty much a funeral combined with a short mass. All in all, it was quite sad… there was a lot of crying and the funeral procession was the longest I’ve ever seen (I did feel kinda bad for the people made to wait for us… they were probably on their lunch break and probably had to wait 15+ min for all the cars to get by).
It’s still hard to believe what happened, happened (if you don’t know… click here). It doesn’t seem real. Hopefully Monday morning gives us better news and more hope to the future.
On Feb 20, 2006, the President of our company went missing. He was last heard from at 6:20 PM talking to his wife. On the 21st, he was discovered dead. I blogged all the events that happened on the Neowin Forums, but it was quite disjointed.
Now that everything is said and done, I figured I should post it here. I’m going to post edited versions of what was posted on the other site. It will be edited to remove things that do not have to do with this, and also to include anything that is missing.
Since this is a very long entry, I’m going to make it split… if you want to read it… please click the “(more)” link below.
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Today we’ve had the biggest shakeup, ever. 
As of this morning, both our Office Manager and Vice President of Construction have quit without any warning. This is a pretty large hole in our business, as the Office Manager handled a good portion of our finances (among other things), and since we’re a home builder, our VP of Construction is kinda important (luckily our Assistant Vice President of Construction is on the ball). As far as our Office Manager goes, her assistant (and company receptionist) is trying to handle things that need to be done, but she was about to move into the closing dept (as our Closings lady quit). This is quite insane…
Oh well, luckily as IT my job was easy, took all of 5 minutes. Change network/system passwords, disable VPN access, change e-mail password. Done and done.
I hate taking my math class. Yes, I know it’s good for me, yes I know I need to take it to get my degree, but I still don’t like it.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against math in general. In fact, I use it all the time! My problem is with certain math professors, and math homework. I think that if I get 80%+ on all my tests, quizes, etc… I shouldn’t have to do 200+ problems a week of homework (shouldn’t 50 problems be enough to show that I either do or don’t understand the work??). Did I mention I hate homework? Oh, and after working my full time job (and doing all the other erands around the house that I have to do), I’m not really in the mood to stay up till 11:00 PM doing word problems before I can rest for the first time that day.
Okay, now I know homework is here to stay (and there’s nothing I can do about it), so here’s my biggest gripe… certain math professors. I’m taking my class online, so I don’t have all that much contact with my professor. Among other things, she makes us do double work… she tells us she doesn’t grade the odd problems, but yet it’s required we do them. Next, I was told that I’m supposed to work the problems vertically, not horizontally (easier for her to read, she says). That little tidbit of info would have been nice to know after she marked the last page of my work wrong for it. Ugh, I feel like I’m back in High School.
At least I’ll be done (with math, at least) in a month. I really can’t wait.
