Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I Really Need Something to Do at Work

So, pretty much all I've done here since I started is to hold stuff together. I'm trying to convince them that everything more or less needs to be reworked, but that might take some time. There are two major problems with what we have. One is that there's no structure to anything, which makes it almost impossible to fix let alone improve. The other problem is in the automatic process we have. They use a software program that emulates a person entering data into a web page, which was actually designed to test web pages, not to be a substitution for a data entry person. It's horribly unreliable and is pretty much all I do at work. It could be done really simple by just transferring raw data with a little bit of "behind the scene work" as they call it around here, but it would be easy and reliable, and much easier to fix. I actually do work for two departments and one of them is totally on board with me, so that should help.

Anyway, I at least finally convinced them to get me a Mac. My dad says the school has me brainwashed to like them... well obviously it's not just the university as it took me two month of nagging and convincing before the decided it would be okay. It will make things a little less painful when I get that. I've been using my laptop at work in the mean time, but I'll be glad to be able to leave that at home and not to have to go back and forth between two computers. I was surprised that she order a nicer one too. When we talked it sounded like she was going to go with the cheapest one, but she went a couple steps up and got the bigger 24" iMac, which is what i wanted. So that will defiantly be nice.

I've been packing a bit, but not much. I don't have a whole lot of little stuff, so it shouldn't be bad. I'm defiantly ready to be moved though. My roommates have been moving stuff this past week and it makes me want to be moved as well. It's not far off though, only two and a half weeks. I've pretty much got everything worked out though, so the most I have to do is sign everything on closing day and move. Hopefully everything continues to go smoothly.

written at 9:43 AM

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