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So I'm writing my first RB blog. It'll probably not have anything to do with RB, since I've already wrote a rather lengthy post or three about my playtime with it here.
Instead, I'll talk about my first day at my new job!
So I got a job working tech support for a large computer repair company in Rocklin, CA (outside of Sacramento). Very cool stuff, there's HP and Agilent equipment EVERYWHERE, and it feels like nerd heaven. I'm in the call center portion, and we've got this very cool little office that overlooks the entire stock warehouse. It's very... Authorative!
We're doing support for a multimedia peripheral company, handling tech support and RMAs. This company sells optical drives (internal and external), external drives, enclosures, video cards, sound cards, power supplies, and random modding parts like sata and ide cables, cathodes, fans, and thumbscrews (lol!).
My wife needed the car today, so we got up at 6am, along with John (her brother, he was staying over for Rock Band since he lives in Napa), and get ready to go, we're in the car before 7am. Turn the key, nothing. Try it again, nothing. Turn the key off, the alarm starts feebily beeping, slower and slower, lower and lower in pitch. Throw the battery on the charger for about five mins. The needle said it had a full charge. Same thing happens. Panic, call Eryn's grandparents to see about borrowing the van while putting the battery back on the charger, 10-15 mins later, the car fires up. Thank freaking god. That's all I need to have happen, lose my job before it even starts due to a ???ty car battery.
Needless to say, that battery is getting replaced tomorrow. Today was the first time we've tried to start it that early with it being that cold. Cause it was frickin' cold.
So, I finally get to work (not that late, either!). My first day has consisted of learning a bit about the systems, learning about the products (which there isn't too much to learn about stuff I already know about hehe), and hoping that the IT guys come up here and give me my login info. Then I get trained on the systems once I can log in, learn the procedures, and go from there. Well, it's 4:30pm (been here since 8am), and I've taken like, three calls inbetween reading stuff and lunch and breaks.
And now I'm writing this blog, since there's not really anything for me to learn cause everyone else has gone home. I think.
Bad part? I start at 6:30am. Good part? I avoid traffic. Bad part? Some of these people calling are ridiculous. Good part? I have saturday and sunday off. Bad part? It's over a 30 minute drive from my house. Good part? My coworkers and bosses are friggin' awesome.
Oh. it's also good to get paid. and it pays much better than my webdesign job did. cause he was cheap. hah!
So, that's my first day at work, basically. I get along with everyone, it's a cool environment, and we have an office with a view... Of boxes, pallets, and heavy-duty metal shelves filled with said pallets of said boxes. If we stand up to look out the windows, we can see people below us. It's kinda' fun.
So, Rock Band yesterday at Sacramento State, first day of work today, and Rock Band at Raley's Field in West Sac tomorrow and maybe even Sunday. This makes me the opposite of a very sad panda. :D
Haha... Very awesome, and very true... I'm forwarding this to my band (minus the singer, who left recently)... Funny stuff, agree with it all. Until the last paragraph, that made me cry a little inside. :(
Monday, October 6, 2008