morning update

~ Bon Steele ~ 4 Comments

Thank you all so much for your kind words, anger on my behalf and for the job leads. Be sure that I am going to follow up on all that I am qualified for.

I talked to my immediate boss and he seems to be just as furious/upset as I am. Well, maybe not as much as I am. But, his confusion does seem to be genuine. He says that he is still trying to find a way for me to get my raise/go perm/move to another department/whatever it takes to make me happy. I hope he can. There is at least one opening here that I would be intersted in. Totally different department/boss. If I understand him correctly, it would be a perm job. *shrug* Not going to stop me from updating my resume and sending it out all sparkly and clean to prospective employers.

Ya’ll wanna hire me? 😀

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Last night at Poly Dinner was a ton of fun! I met a lot of interesting new people -and – it helped my state of mind to get out and about. The Girl had a great time as well.
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Oh, I wish I could take a picture of my pretty, pretty skirt today. It are lovelykins.

 

Oh yeah, baby!

~ Bon Steele ~ 12 Comments

Yesterday sucked. Bigga time.
Yesterday, during the SQA meeting I was snubbed pretty hard by the Functional QA Mgr, while *my* boss sat by and said nothing.
Said snubbing was done not only in front of MY team but, in front of all of SQA. That’s three different offices worth. As the quality of my work has not deteriorated, I can only assume this is in direct response to me asking for a raise.

Oh, yeah. The raise. The one they were going to give me to stay here? The one I turned down a permanent job for? Yeah. Apparently, not coming through ever. I asked my boss about it. He said to talk to HIS boss. His boss being the one who snubbed me during the meeting yesterday, btw. Now, I *could* go to him and chat with him to find out the status of the raise. But honestly? That’s not my job. I talked to my direct supervisor. That is what I am supposed to do. I should not have to chase down the raise that I was already promised. That should have been on *last* week’s check.

*angry sigh*

At any rate — anyone in Austin, DFW or fuck, anyone in Florida, for that matter hiring? I am an SQA professional with almost 10 years of experience under my belt. I do manual testing, I do automated testing, I script, I sing, I dance. Plus, my taste in music rocks — so the software lab will always have tasty tunes blaring.

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BTW….ask austingoddess for music. She made me a mix CD and handed it to me last night. I have been listening to it since I got in the car this morning and through its auspices have been immensely cheered me up. There have been snickers and head bopping at the same time. If your mix CD can make someone both crack up and swing their hips, then you have done *good*.

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The good thing that happened was that Summerkins read for an hour last night. Unprompted. And when I asked about her book, excitedly told me the key plot points. As a.) getting her to read at all has been a problem and b.) her comprehension is spotty, at best – this qualifies as a Very Good Thing. It was a trifle garbled but understandable for all that.

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Morning, how YOU doon?

~ Bon Steele ~ 2 Comments

*kiss* Good morning my queen. I love you and am thinking of you…

Well, I *was* in a foul mood when I walked in the door this morning. Not enough sleep, cranky daughter, bad drivers and a packet of missing money – my lunch money for the day – had pretty much guaranteed that I was going to be teh Uber Bitch. However, when I got to work and logged into my system, there waiting for me patiently, was a message from my sweetie. A little YM prezzie that he dropped onto my desktop. Awww….

No one dies today. Yayayay!