Greebo
N9017H - C172M (1976)
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Retired Evil Overlord
Last week Monday I started what was to be a 6 month contract with Legg Mason. The contract is about an hour's commute 1 way from home, and the first week was guaranteed to be very intense as I got ramped up on the project - which it was. In addition, LM is a financial company, so their controls on external access is very strict. I can read forums and post but I can't read any outside emails or get any connections necessary to working on PoA, if I'd had time to do any PoA work.
What with the long commute and brain frying days, I wasn't finding myself in any mood to do anything on a computer at home resembling work - and that meant keeping up with PoA.
Well, on Friday, exactly one work week after my 6 month contract started, Legg Mason announced the swap of it's stock business with CitiFinancial's Asset Management business. (LM is now becoming a purely asset management compnay) This is the first in what will be a trend of these business swaps, as Financial Companies are being pressured into being one or the other (eliminating the conflict of interest between running retirement programs and being in the stock brokering business, I guess).
Guess what group my project supported? If you said "Asset Management", you've missed the clues so far.
So on Friday, my 6 month project that they signed me for 2 weeks ago got cancelled. (Idiots in upper management didn't think to say, "Put a hold on all new projects"...) Now because of LM's interest in me a month ago (when the uppity ups were working on this swap already), I got signed here instead of at a contract which is 10 mins from my front door (because that contract was taking their time dorking around about how much my office would get paid for my services). So instead I got the LM contract, and someone who lives near LM got the contract near my house after the other contract finally decided that yes, we WERE worth paying for (duh).
So like I said, my project got cancelled. I'm on "two weeks or less" notice. (That is, LM has to pay for me for 2 more weeks if my office doesn't find something else for me). As it happens, I have an interview this afternoon, and they approached us so odds are I'll be accepted for the contract since their project needs are right up my alley. (.NET and SQL Server expertise)
So long story short, thats why I haven't been reading/posting at PoA as much as usual, and haven't been doing ANY real work on PoA at all. What will happen in the coming weeks, I don't know yet. The new project (assuming I get it) is as yet a mystery to me. With luck, once I get settled in I'll be able to continue working on PoA as time allows.
But in any event, I just wanted to drop a quick status note saying where I have been and why I haven't been around here as much.
(Oh, why didn't I do PoA work on the weekends? Well... I gave into temptation. I had the house to myself on Saturday and spent ALL day chasing down British warships... I haven't had a "cave troll on the computer playing games" day like that in MONTHS
)
What with the long commute and brain frying days, I wasn't finding myself in any mood to do anything on a computer at home resembling work - and that meant keeping up with PoA.
Well, on Friday, exactly one work week after my 6 month contract started, Legg Mason announced the swap of it's stock business with CitiFinancial's Asset Management business. (LM is now becoming a purely asset management compnay) This is the first in what will be a trend of these business swaps, as Financial Companies are being pressured into being one or the other (eliminating the conflict of interest between running retirement programs and being in the stock brokering business, I guess).
Guess what group my project supported? If you said "Asset Management", you've missed the clues so far.
So on Friday, my 6 month project that they signed me for 2 weeks ago got cancelled. (Idiots in upper management didn't think to say, "Put a hold on all new projects"...) Now because of LM's interest in me a month ago (when the uppity ups were working on this swap already), I got signed here instead of at a contract which is 10 mins from my front door (because that contract was taking their time dorking around about how much my office would get paid for my services). So instead I got the LM contract, and someone who lives near LM got the contract near my house after the other contract finally decided that yes, we WERE worth paying for (duh).
So like I said, my project got cancelled. I'm on "two weeks or less" notice. (That is, LM has to pay for me for 2 more weeks if my office doesn't find something else for me). As it happens, I have an interview this afternoon, and they approached us so odds are I'll be accepted for the contract since their project needs are right up my alley. (.NET and SQL Server expertise)
So long story short, thats why I haven't been reading/posting at PoA as much as usual, and haven't been doing ANY real work on PoA at all. What will happen in the coming weeks, I don't know yet. The new project (assuming I get it) is as yet a mystery to me. With luck, once I get settled in I'll be able to continue working on PoA as time allows.
But in any event, I just wanted to drop a quick status note saying where I have been and why I haven't been around here as much.
(Oh, why didn't I do PoA work on the weekends? Well... I gave into temptation. I had the house to myself on Saturday and spent ALL day chasing down British warships... I haven't had a "cave troll on the computer playing games" day like that in MONTHS
)
