How I resigned from work today...
Westley: Who are you? Are we enemies? Why am I on this wall? Where is Buttercup?
Inigo Montoya: Let me 'splain.
[pause]
Inigo Montoya: No, there is too much. Let me sum up...
- The Princess Bride
It all started when I got a call from Eric at a contract company on Monday 4/10. They had a job for me as a Network Admin in Alpharetta and wanted to know if I was interested. I said that I was and sent them a copy of my resume to forward to The Company.
I was told that The Company would review the resume and if they liked it I would partake in a phone interview. If that went well then I'd be asked to come in for an 'in-person' interview.
I got a call from Eric on Tuesday saying that The Company wanted to skip the phone interview and proceed straight to the 'in-person' interview on Wednesday. Well, the problem with this is that I am not a current resident of GA and The Company would not consider an out of state candidate. So the contract company lied to The Company and said I was local and arranged for the meeting to be on Friday.
I agreed to the Friday interview and made plans to get down to Alpharetta. The task was not easy because it was Easter weekend though I didn't realize it at first. I went to the web and had to run through the process of trying to book the flight seven times before I could get it to complete. Each time before the final attempt the 'deal' would be taken by someone else.
I got the itinerary for Glitzy and I to get to Alpharetta and the flight left from DTW to DC then to ATL on Thursday.
On the day of the flight we barely made it to the airport in time. We had to check in manually with an agent because we cut it so close. The rules for a flight that heads to DC are stricter than other flights and we didn't plan well enough ahead to compensate for that. We were told that our bags may not make it onto the flight and we may not either due to the screening process to DC.
We made it to the plane in time after some running but we need not fear however because the flight ended up being delayed. It was supposed to leave at 6:40am and after one trip to the runway and back we had to transfer to another plane because there was something wrong with the fuel system on this plane. Why not leave this flight and book another? Because every bag on a flight to DC is scanned. If any one bag is removed from the plane, all of the luggage has to be rescanned including our own bags.
I tried to get NWA to rebook the connecting flight 4 times because of the delays and they screwed up the last booking so we had to rebook ourselves and pay the extra money for the change. Now we have to get NWA to pay us back for it.
We finally made it to Atlanta but Glitzy's bag did not. It seems that it may have never made it onto the plane in DTW. We never found out. We checked into a hotel with walls a little too thin. This of course made the night before my morning interview less than perfect but it wasn't all bad because the bag was delivered before we went to sleep.
The interview went well and the rest of the afternoon we spent looking at some apartments. We found that all of the talk about the bad ATL traffic is right on the money. The traffic sucks. ALL OF THE TIME.
It was during this traveling that I found out that The Company wanted me to start in two weeks.
So we decided to change our plans for where we would end up living and had to work for the rest of the evening to find new places to search. Glitzy did a lot of work paring down the list of places using information she found online. Some of it was pretty bad.
After touring a bunch of apartments on Saturday we decided to go with the 3 bedroom McGwier unit here. Neat thing is that after 6 months 20% of your money goes towards the purchase of a new home.
We got a chance to sleep a little Saturday night after celebrating at Taco Mac and joining their Passport Club. Sunday we headed back home and I was able to create my resignation letter and I include it below. I printed it out on clear transparency film for effect and it came out great. (if you don't know the LCARS format, you should).
I gave it to my boss today when I went into his office for what was supposed to be my yearly performance review meeting. What is odd is that my boss and I rarely saw eye to eye. When I gave the letter to him he asked about staying with my current company and said that he would contact the people in ATL to see if there is something there that would work for me.
Now I'm in a rush to get things together for the move and all the usual stuff that goes along with it.
--Update: I've received a call from a manager down in GA for another division of the company I currently work for. It seems my current manager contacted him and he may have a position for me. We'll see if what he has is better than the offer I have on the table.
Inigo Montoya: Let me 'splain.
[pause]
Inigo Montoya: No, there is too much. Let me sum up...
- The Princess Bride
It all started when I got a call from Eric at a contract company on Monday 4/10. They had a job for me as a Network Admin in Alpharetta and wanted to know if I was interested. I said that I was and sent them a copy of my resume to forward to The Company.
I was told that The Company would review the resume and if they liked it I would partake in a phone interview. If that went well then I'd be asked to come in for an 'in-person' interview.
I got a call from Eric on Tuesday saying that The Company wanted to skip the phone interview and proceed straight to the 'in-person' interview on Wednesday. Well, the problem with this is that I am not a current resident of GA and The Company would not consider an out of state candidate. So the contract company lied to The Company and said I was local and arranged for the meeting to be on Friday.
I agreed to the Friday interview and made plans to get down to Alpharetta. The task was not easy because it was Easter weekend though I didn't realize it at first. I went to the web and had to run through the process of trying to book the flight seven times before I could get it to complete. Each time before the final attempt the 'deal' would be taken by someone else.
I got the itinerary for Glitzy and I to get to Alpharetta and the flight left from DTW to DC then to ATL on Thursday.
On the day of the flight we barely made it to the airport in time. We had to check in manually with an agent because we cut it so close. The rules for a flight that heads to DC are stricter than other flights and we didn't plan well enough ahead to compensate for that. We were told that our bags may not make it onto the flight and we may not either due to the screening process to DC.
We made it to the plane in time after some running but we need not fear however because the flight ended up being delayed. It was supposed to leave at 6:40am and after one trip to the runway and back we had to transfer to another plane because there was something wrong with the fuel system on this plane. Why not leave this flight and book another? Because every bag on a flight to DC is scanned. If any one bag is removed from the plane, all of the luggage has to be rescanned including our own bags.
I tried to get NWA to rebook the connecting flight 4 times because of the delays and they screwed up the last booking so we had to rebook ourselves and pay the extra money for the change. Now we have to get NWA to pay us back for it.
We finally made it to Atlanta but Glitzy's bag did not. It seems that it may have never made it onto the plane in DTW. We never found out. We checked into a hotel with walls a little too thin. This of course made the night before my morning interview less than perfect but it wasn't all bad because the bag was delivered before we went to sleep.
The interview went well and the rest of the afternoon we spent looking at some apartments. We found that all of the talk about the bad ATL traffic is right on the money. The traffic sucks. ALL OF THE TIME.
It was during this traveling that I found out that The Company wanted me to start in two weeks.
So we decided to change our plans for where we would end up living and had to work for the rest of the evening to find new places to search. Glitzy did a lot of work paring down the list of places using information she found online. Some of it was pretty bad.
After touring a bunch of apartments on Saturday we decided to go with the 3 bedroom McGwier unit here. Neat thing is that after 6 months 20% of your money goes towards the purchase of a new home.
We got a chance to sleep a little Saturday night after celebrating at Taco Mac and joining their Passport Club. Sunday we headed back home and I was able to create my resignation letter and I include it below. I printed it out on clear transparency film for effect and it came out great. (if you don't know the LCARS format, you should).
I gave it to my boss today when I went into his office for what was supposed to be my yearly performance review meeting. What is odd is that my boss and I rarely saw eye to eye. When I gave the letter to him he asked about staying with my current company and said that he would contact the people in ATL to see if there is something there that would work for me.
Now I'm in a rush to get things together for the move and all the usual stuff that goes along with it.
--Update: I've received a call from a manager down in GA for another division of the company I currently work for. It seems my current manager contacted him and he may have a position for me. We'll see if what he has is better than the offer I have on the table.
Labels: Work
posted by Unfriendly Pedestrian at Monday, April 17, 2006
8 Comments:
You always were a sick puppy!!! No wonder you tried to convince me that I was adopted all those year - you were trying to protect me at a young age from association with you HEHEHEHE
HEY - any thoughts on taking Sundance???
For those of you not up on Star Trek here's a non overwhelming site defining LCARS
...and here's a residents'website for one of the places we were considering checking out. Pretty scary
Hey Glitz! I wonder if you will offer a similar resignation. I'm sure S. would love it! LOL :)
Oh..mine is just to the point...no pirate's life for me!
BEST.RESIGNATION.LETTER.EVER. :lol:
WOW!
What a whirlwind. What a nightmare flight, what a great oportunity, what a big move, what an awesome resignation letter.
Congratulations!!!!
Thank you :)
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