My Zen Arcade

Thanks to the good people where I work, I’ll soon be relocating closer to D.C. (working in Bethesda) which is VERY exciting.  Baltimore is an armpit (being generous here) of a town. 

Moses

supposes

his toeses

are roses.

But Moses

supposes

eroneously.

Moses,

he knowses,

his toeses

aren’t roses

as Moses

supposes

his toeses to be!

AHHHH!  STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!  KILL KILL KILL!!! DIE DIE DIE!!!

Because every once in a while, you get to work, and get the joyous suprise of there being no toilet paper in any of the three bathrooms.

whee.

I don’t remember if I noted this earlier, but I’m fucking bored.

I work as a government contractor and our contract has NOT been renewed. In a mixed blessing, we did get it extended to the end of April. I say mixed because it does mean I continue to get a paycheck, but there is absolutely nothing nothing nothing to do. All but the most contractually required development has been canceled. The remaining work will probably take up 15-20 hours of time. None of it mine.

(edit: this is not completely accurate.  I am responsible for making sure that any of the weird patching we are doing goes through OK at the database end…which involves me being here and doing nothing…)

ARGH!!!!

So, my company lost the contract I’ve been working on. They lost it to an 8(a) company (which, I believe, means that they employ at least one Eskimo, but I’m not sure). As I understand it, they only have 5 employees.
Thats fine. This new company has been trying to recruit from my team. This is also fine. They have, however, been doing it very poorly. They honestly don’t appear to understand how deep the deep end is, and how they are really throwing themselves in blindly. What they should be doing at this point, imho, is sucking up to the current team.

Instead, they are unresponsive to our inquiries, and they are running the interviews as if we were applying for a job selling steak knives (”If you are interested in interviewing with us, please contact us as soon as possible. There are still a few timeslots open. Next week we will be opening the interview process to the public”).

The last straw was: “please bring your 2007 W-2 and a recent pay stubb with you.”

I’m pretty sure thats not how you spell stub, but whats really a problem is the request for proof of salary. Translation: please come in and give us all the information about your barginning position, while we reveal nothing. We are doing this because we basically don’t trust you and feel that letting you know that right off the bat will be good for our future relationship.

I’ve been in the workforce for over 15 years and I have never ever had anyone make this request. If they want to call my boss and ask him what I make, thats their prerogative. However, to ask me to turn over this information is unbelievably unprofessional.