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[jameydee]

Work couldn't be more boring. We're between funding of projects at the moment--we have already been awarded a huge multi-million-dollar contract, but that's not slated to be funded until October and our old funding ran out. Our old funding is supposed to be extended, but we're caught in bureaucratic limbo--a piece of paper is sitting buried on someone's desk awaiting a signature. In the meantime, a halt-work order has been issued and instead of charging our time to a nice, secure contract, we are all charging against the dreaded word, "Overhead." It's a situation that can't go on indefinitely as we drain the company's resources... Worrisome, to say the least.

Mike recently had a nightmare that we went through a second round of lay-offs.

So we're not allowed to work on the courseware. We're supposed to use this time to improve our skills. I just don't happen to find this place comfortable or conducive to that kind of thing. Learning for fun is best done--for me, at any rate--where I'm comfy and not looking over my shoulder. Anyway, we're on our third week of "skill improving," and I'm getting restless. I'm just killing time sitting here. It's like being at my old place of business, only I had more freedom there! If I sat on the floor in the middle of office, no one would care, it'd just be Jamey being Jamey.

I really regret how much leave I burned earlier this year and I really wish I had filed some comp time for the extra hours I had been careless about tracking. And I really begrudged having to be out sick yesterday. I so desperately want a real vacation. I mean, DragonCon and Networld + Interop will be fun, but they are trips with a purpose. They are different. They are fun trips, but they are not vacation trips. There are still expectations and schedules and obligations.

Comments

dragoncon

[atlanta-pete.livejournal.com]

you go every year. it's not even like a vacation anymore. like going to disneyworld every year.

Re: dragoncon

[reynard.livejournal.com]

hey, "atlanta_pete"....crawl out from your cave and face the real thing....you do realize how lame it is to glom someone's identity online, don't you?