// January 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // Everyday stuff
I almost made it. I almost made my 10th year at The Dirty (company name withheld so I don’t get my ass in trouble but my friends know the name). It didn’t quite happen though. Last Thursday I started a new job with a company in Norfolk. I won’t say the company yet because god forbid they read this and don’t like the idea that I write about them in a blog. Stranger things have happen. I’ll miss The Dirty. Heck I’m already missing it. I mostly miss the people there. I’ve been with most of them for a while now. My best friend still works there. A lot of people I like their still work there but I guess life must go on.
Basically I left because there was a warning given to my group by my boss. We were told that it would be in our best interest to get our resumes out there. Why you ask? Well for years now it’s been in The Dirtys best interest to replace their workers in the datacenter with cheaper salary employees that reside in India. What the people who don’t work in the data center don’t realize is that the people who work in India are horrible workers for the most part. What takes a US worker an hour might take an India worked 1 1/2 days. Or what takes an US employee a day might take an India employee a week. Yes I’m being serious.
I’m not mad at the people over in the India. It’s not their faults that the higher ups have ruined what was once a great place to work. The admins in India are actually very nice people. They are eager to help most of the time. It just makes me very pissed that the management doesn’t see that their work ethic is horrible or that they take forever to get something done. I honestly hope that place goes to hell and falls apart. It will only make the people who work there realize that there is life after The Dirty and to the higher ups (not the Data Center director because hes awesome but higher then him) I hope you destroy your careers by the actions you have taken. If those are harsh words then good. You ruined a good thing. You’ve ruined a good team of people.
Now on to my new job. Like I said I started last week. It’s very different in a lot of ways. As much as I hated some of the stuff I had go to through at The Dirty I’ve come to appreciate it after coming to this new company. Believe me it’s nothing earth shattering but just different. I work with two ex Dirty employees so the move was easier for me. But something funny did happen on my second day. I didn’t provide HR with my SS card. I couldn’t find it. So basically I was thrown out of the building until I could provide a document stating that I am an actual human being and I’m real. So I had to drive down to the Social Security Office that day and get that letter and come back to work. It was quite the experience. I know things there will get better. I’m still getting used to getting up an hour earlier and getting home an hour later. I appreciate sleep a lot more now.
