{"id":188,"date":"2001-07-27T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2001-07-28T01:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=188"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:49","slug":"job-details-more-books-and-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/27\/job-details-more-books-and-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Job details, more books, and monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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07:16:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10777,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00003CXXV\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311091340\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00003CXXV\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00003CXXV\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First off &#8212; as far as I can tell, I think the interview this morning went great! :) Here&#8217;s the details I&#8217;ve got on the job I may be getting hired for.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the place I interviewed at today was a temp staffing agency called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todays.com\/\" title=\"Today's Office Staffing\">Todays<\/a>. I&#8217;d actually applied for a data entry position through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monster.com\/\" title=\"Monster.com\">Monster.com<\/a>, but when they saw my resume, they felt I was better qualified for a posting that wasn&#8217;t quite official yet. Should I get this spot, I&#8217;ll be working (pay attention now, this gets slightly tricky) at a local firm who&#8217;s name I can&#8217;t remember for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/\" title=\"Xerox\">Xerox<\/a> as an employee of Todays. Got that?<\/p>\n<p>See, Xerox has a service where they send trained operators out to various firms to run their equipment &#8212; Xerox knows that people who know what they&#8217;re doing are touching their equipment, and the firm doesn&#8217;t have to spend its own personnel resources on keeping the copiers going &#8212; works well for all parties involved. I&#8217;d end up getting dropped in the middle of this &#8212; officially a Today&#8217;s employee, temping with Xerox, but working at this firm.<\/p>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s even a little more to it than this. As it turns out, this firm had a special request with this posting. They have an employee working in this area with &#8216;special needs&#8217; &#8212; exactly what that means hasn&#8217;t been specified &#8212; and they wanted to see if they could get someone with at least some management\/leadership experience. They don&#8217;t need a manager, but they did want someone who would be more able to and comfortable with working with this employee; able to give help when needed, act as something of a liason between this employee and others, and the like. Given the supervisorial (is that a word?) experience I have on my resume, Today&#8217;s felt that I would be a good pick, and apparently that impression held true during the interview today, as they seemed highly confident that I&#8217;d be called in on this job posting. So&#8230;now I just cross my fingers, but at least from where I&#8217;m standing, things look really good. Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a voracious reader. I posted yesterday that I&#8217;d just started re-reading Cliff Stoll&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743411463\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Cliff Stoll: The Cuckoo's Egg\">The Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg<\/a>. Welp&#8230;that&#8217;s done with. Next up on the dock is Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553380958\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash\">Snow Crash<\/a>, one of (if not the single) seminal works of &#8220;cyberpunk&#8221; fiction, and an acknowledged source of inspiration for many of today&#8217;s top computer\/<acronym title=\"Virtual Reality\">VR<\/acronym> developers. Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p>As for the monkeys. My parents were kind enough to drop me a bit of money to help me out until I start getting paychecks and get up and on my feet. So, me being the fine, upstanding, and responsible young man I am &#8212; I took the opportunity today after my job interview to go see a movie! Erm&#8230;hey, it was a whopping five bucks for the matinee, and I was in a good mood after the interview. So sue me. Anyway&#8230;went out to see Tim Burton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXXV\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Planet of the Apes\">Planet of the Apes<\/a>, one of the big films I&#8217;d been waiting to see this summer. So how was it? Horrid &#8212; the end result was it&#8217;s a matinee at best&#8230;quite possibly only a rental. Much as it pains me to say that about a Tim Burton film, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyway&#8230;went out to see Tim Burton&#8217;s Planet of the Apes, one of the big films I&#8217;d been waiting to see this summer. So how was it? 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