Oh, I think I'll get used to this just fine...
Let's see:
Covered parking garage.
Concierge service.
Two (2) restaraunts in the building (attached hotel).
Fitness center.
Compare that to a boss who'd sometimes hand out a shovel on a snowy day, saying, Guess who's turn it is..."
Oh, and within an hour and a half I'd fixed the broken macros in the Word form that had taken someone a complete day to get started, and had stumped their IT people.
When I'd shown up just before 8 my main contact there had admitted he was panicking because he had to get the document passed onward by 9:30. He asked if maybe I could try. At 9:35, when we'd been done for a little bit I pointed to the clock and said, "well, I guess that worked OK..." As far as he was concerned, I'd earned my day's pay before lunch time.
The journey of a thousand miles does not have to be completed in one day. It's okay to stop for the night to sleep and pick up where you left off in the morning.
I go into Jareth's room to get him when I get home.
He climbs up and turns on the light.
"I turned on the light so you can see the Dark," he proudly tells me...
It's interesting. I don't recall having reservations about mentioning Sara Lee in blog posts. Maybe I didn't mention them by name, maybe I did. I don't feel like searching to check.
I don't really recall saying much about the recall center, except perhaps some amusing or frustrating moments/calls from time to time.
As for the dealership... on one hand I've wanted to plug it properly. On the other hand, I haven't been sure how appropriate that would have been, and it would have limited the kinds of things I could have said about them and my experience there.
More than at any other job, I've kept my personal and professional lives separate there. Some of it comes from having spiritual views differing from the mainstream. Retail working on commission isn't the time or place to spark controversial conversations. Not when your pay depends in part on your customers liking you. Just not good odds. I also got the feeling early on that it might not have been a comfortable conversation to get into with some of them. Out of the work place, a month from now, chatting comfortably with a beer or something, yeah, then there's a conversation that could be very interesting with at least one of them in particular. But not, I think, at work during a professional setting.
So maybe that flavors how I feel about posting about the new company.
As for the job itself: They're a foodservice logistics company. A distributor. They have trucks that leave their distribution centers (DCs) full, make delivery routes, and then come back empty. They also have trucks (theirs and suppliers' both) that bring goods to those DCs and go the other way empty.
Someone realized that didn't make a whole lot of sense. So they've built a new logistics team to redo how they handle shipment planning. They've been letting each DC handle the day-to-day, get-it-there-on-time planning. Tactics, short-term. The new team will be about figuring out the strategy, the longer-term planning, and letting the local DC teams implement it.
I'll be the admin support for that group and their leadership. Probably a lot of communications, schedule management for the meetings to coordinate it all, some reporting... stuff like that.
--I had meant to post more about the job and company, not on why I've been vague in general. Of course, now I'm getting low on time to get out of here. I'm kinda trying not to count the days, but at the same time I kinda am... :-)
As it does every year, the local Lite radio station has switched to 24/7 Christmas music.
It used to start just after Thanksgiving.
Then it was around Thanksgiving. I think last year was the week before Thanksgiving.
I'm so not going to miss that part of working retail...