07.19.07
Summer of Discontent
When I’m at work I frequently find myself indulging a rich fantasy life, because every day makes me wish I was there less and less. I start imagining opening a bar in the New Mexico desert, catering to hard-bitten bikers who couldn’t give a shit about me, so long as I supply beer. There’s another good one I’ve been thinking of recently: walk through the GE MR bays and push all the emergency evacuation buttons, for a total damage of around $2 million. Oh, it’s tempting.
I don’t know what kind of engineers GE wants in their organization, but I’m not it. I had already decided that I should look strongly into grad school, but this summer’s clinched the ‘no corporate job’ sentiment I was already cultivating.
I don’t know what I’m going to do in my end-of-term presentation, but I don’t think it’s going to be very kind to the company.
Catie said,
July 20, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Hang in there! (which is said in a completely commiseratory (is that a word?) sense, not in an overly cheery and condescending one) I vote yes on pushing the buttons (do you have a ski mask in your desk?) but not-so-yes on the biker bar - if GE forces you to self-exile in NM, it means they win, in a sense, which would be awfully disheartening :/
Let me know what you end up doing presentation-wise. I need some inspiration, since the only one of my multiple ridiculous projects that is even worth putting on a poster/slide show is the one that proved that using accurate input actually makes W’s numbers worse…….and my tech lead refuses to let me explain why.
Elbow the Milwaukee version of “The Man” in the ribs for me, and I’ll do the same to the one in Pittsburgh!
Joe Blubaugh said,
July 24, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Damn the man!