Monday, July 30, 2007
"Pre-Mature Intelligence?"
¶ 8:55 PM Thought I would write again before bed. This is the beginning of the end for my current job. The new guy, the one that will probably be taking over where I leave off, started today. This is probably the kind of guy they should have hired in the first place: the kind with little experience Ghosting PCs and creating images etc. He's a little older than me. In his 40s if I had to guess. Seems like a fast learner though.
Pff. I didn't get a trainer when I started. Why does he? I had to figure all this shit out myself. A large majority of it anyway. Lucky jerk!
Anyway I talked pretty much non-stop all day today and now my throat is soar. All that non-talking I guess.
I showed him Ghost boot CDs, burning directly to a blank DVD from Ghost, doing a Ghost via peer-to-peer connection, etc. I also showed him how to build a PC from an image, install apps, deal with the buggy app installer. Yada-yada generally.
I have been at this job for ~2 1/2 months or so and had forgotten just how much there was to it. It took the new guy to remind me how far I had come in such a short time.
He actually came in at 8:30, 90 minutes after me. So he was left alone after I left to try and finish some builds. Actually he had my co-workers there to help. Yah, if you can call it that. Probably just confused him more.
Tomorrow the new guy will come in at the same time as me: 7am. I covered at least 2/3s of my job today. And that's a lot to throw at somebody in one day. Especially a person that is learning a completely alien series of concepts. I thought he was doing well though.
I feel a little lost on the the new job though. I mean it's like I don't actually know what I will doing there some how. I hate that. Maybe not as bad as a certain Seinfeld episode but you know...I wish I knew more.
It will be year contract. After that if they want me to work there again I/they will have to wait six months. Then I can get another year contract. Maybe I shouldn't start making plans until AFTER I work at least one day there. Still, I am cautiously optimistic.
Pff. I didn't get a trainer when I started. Why does he? I had to figure all this shit out myself. A large majority of it anyway. Lucky jerk!
Anyway I talked pretty much non-stop all day today and now my throat is soar. All that non-talking I guess.
I showed him Ghost boot CDs, burning directly to a blank DVD from Ghost, doing a Ghost via peer-to-peer connection, etc. I also showed him how to build a PC from an image, install apps, deal with the buggy app installer. Yada-yada generally.
I have been at this job for ~2 1/2 months or so and had forgotten just how much there was to it. It took the new guy to remind me how far I had come in such a short time.
He actually came in at 8:30, 90 minutes after me. So he was left alone after I left to try and finish some builds. Actually he had my co-workers there to help. Yah, if you can call it that. Probably just confused him more.
Tomorrow the new guy will come in at the same time as me: 7am. I covered at least 2/3s of my job today. And that's a lot to throw at somebody in one day. Especially a person that is learning a completely alien series of concepts. I thought he was doing well though.
I feel a little lost on the the new job though. I mean it's like I don't actually know what I will doing there some how. I hate that. Maybe not as bad as a certain Seinfeld episode but you know...I wish I knew more.
It will be year contract. After that if they want me to work there again I/they will have to wait six months. Then I can get another year contract. Maybe I shouldn't start making plans until AFTER I work at least one day there. Still, I am cautiously optimistic.
