I am here... sorry Liz and Lyz, when D got home last night I vegged on the chaise and finished my book, so no AIM.
Newbies, where are you?? Post away, we may seem scary but really, we welcome everyone.
I finally got a good night's sleep last night but somehow woke up with a HUGE headache? Weird. 4 advil and two cups of coffee later, the headache is mostly gone and I am starting to feel good.
Not sure what today will bring. I have a whole day to myself! I may get into a cleaning frenzy, I may go to the gym, or I may just veg here on the chaise. I do need to wash/fold a few loads of laundry, though, which may bring on the cleaning frenzy, or may be done at 9:59:59 when D is about to get home.
Okay, prepare for job rant...
My annual review went well from a pretty word factor... they are really happy with me, think I am a contributing member of the team, etc. $2400 raise, but I still scored a "3" on a scale of 1 to 5. If what I have done for them over the last 6 months is a 3, well, I am not sure I want to be a 4. Granted, I have a lot of flaws, procrastination among them, but I have really gone above and beyond my nature for these folks and I don't think I have much left to give. One other thing they picked on was my tendency to be too honest, and to be combative when attacked, which I wouldn't argue with either.
Plus I had a talk with my boss yesterday in which he was pretty much like I think I gave you the wrong impression that you would follow in the footsteps of the team lead, that he would have to make the decision between me and the teammate who can't speak English. I told him outright that it was a tough decision for him, because the non-chosen is likely to leave...
I have been thinking a lot about this the last two days, which is why I haven't posted about it. I think that it is really time for me to explore other options. I drive 20 miles each way for this job, even though I live right in the heart of the tech industry in this area. I do like my boss, but the chaos and crap that I live with daily is starting to wear on me, and I really *don't* like my team lead.
Not to mention, I talked to another guy (G) in another team during my conference last weekend, and he backed up my opinion of my team lead. I have always been sort of uncomfortable around the guy and didn't know why... well evidently he has screwed over G bigtime in the past when they were peers. So I guess I was right to be uncomfortable.
So, I think some of my day may be polished up the old resume and looking through monster a bit. I also have a few contacts that I can look up again. I have to be really careful because boss-man was a recruiter for 5 years and this can be a REALLY small town in that regard, so no posting my resume outright for sure.