{"id":2697,"date":"2004-07-23T04:51:52","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/23\/goodbye-georgetown\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:56:05","slug":"goodbye-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/23\/goodbye-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10527,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlecentral.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260222090736\\\/https:\\\/\\\/seattlecentral.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:13:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:13:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10528,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kingarthur.movies.go.com\\\/main.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060125041528\\\/http:\\\/\\\/kingarthur.movies.go.com:80\\\/main.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:13:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:13:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10529,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0461136&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090222130003\\\/http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com:80\\\/name\\\/nm0461136\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0461136&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10530,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/gallery\\\/ss\\\/0349683\\\/Ss\\\/0349683\\\/10_KAC-C474-029AR-B.jpg?path=pgallery&amp;path_key=Knightley,%20Keira&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/gallery\\\/ss\\\/0349683\\\/Ss\\\/0349683\\\/10_KAC-C474-029AR-B.jpg?path=pgallery&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4162,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.zoo.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307023232\\\/https:\\\/\\\/zoo.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.zoo.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:59:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 22:33:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 22:33:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10531,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.zoo.org\\\/mow\\\/spiders.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.zoo.org\\\/mow\\\/spiders.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Every so often, things actually seem to work out right.<\/p>\n<p>One of the services that the company I work for provides is known as &#8216;facilities management&#8217; &#8212; setting up and running a small, private print shop on the premises of another company to handle that company&#8217;s in-house printing needs. The FM site generally has a limited amount of equipment, so small, quick-turnaround jobs are done locally, while larger more complex jobs are farmed out to the FM site&#8217;s parent branch.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, The Company picked up a new FM contract, and put out a call for applicants. It sounded interesting, but the job listing specified a required minimum of one year with The Company, and I&#8217;ve only been employed with them for about seven months. However, as I had worked for The Company in the past, and have prior FM experience (both as part of a team, when I was working for the Xerox FM site on the Microsoft campus; and on my own, running the Xerox FM site for Arthur Anderson), I figured it was worth inquiring whether they&#8217;d consider me. I made a call to the manager in charge of the position, and considering my prior experience, he agreed to look at my total time of employment with The Company &#8212; nearly four years, though there is a seven-year gap in the middle &#8212; and I put my application in.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago I had one interview with the site manager, and then last week I had a second interview with the cluster manager. Both interviews seemed to go well, and while job interviews always tend to make me a little nervous, the FM site is part of the same cluster that my current store is, so I&#8217;d already met and worked with both of the people interviewing me, which made it a lot easier than if I&#8217;d never met either of them before.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday my current manager let me know that I&#8217;ve got the spot! I probably won&#8217;t actually switch over into the new position for about two weeks or so, as a replacement for my current position needs to be found, and as business has been slow throughout the cluster this past month, they don&#8217;t want to switch my payroll over to the FM site&#8217;s parent branch in this pay period &#8212; but I&#8217;ve been assured that I&#8217;ve got the spot.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of benefits to the new position. I&#8217;ll be moving back to a more &#8220;normal&#8221; work schedule, as the FM site needs to be open during the same hours as the business it supports, so I&#8217;ll be working Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm. The first week or so will probably be a little rough as I switch my sleep schedule back around (no more wandering off to bed between two and three in the morning), but it&#8217;s certainly nothing I can&#8217;t deal with.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s an immediate difference in my pay (quite possibly not, as I just got a raise a few months ago during The Company&#8217;s standard review cycle), but even without that, I&#8217;ll still end up taking home more money. As business has been slow for the past month, one of the cost-cutting measures that all the stores have been taking is cutting hours when possible to save on payroll. As I&#8217;ll be the sole regular on-site employee for the FM site, I won&#8217;t have to worry about hours being cut, so I&#8217;ll be guaranteed my full forty every week.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite benefits, though, is that I&#8217;ll be saving \\$45 dollars a month by not having to buy a bus pass, as the FM site is a whopping <em>three blocks<\/em> from my apartment. Not even a five minute walk away. It&#8217;s going to be so nice to be living and working that close together again, right in the heart of downtown Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Another big reason I&#8217;m happy about getting the new position is that by moving to a standard daytime schedule, I can finally look into following through on some of the plans I&#8217;ve had bouncing around in my head for the past few years. Since I&#8217;ll have my evenings free, that opens up a number of hours that I can put to good use, and I&#8217;ve got a few ideas of activites that I&#8217;d like to fill those hours with, ranging from the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/another_thing_i.html\" title=\"Another thing I keep meaning to investigate\">Tai Chi classes that I rambled about<\/a> last week to investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/teaching_techni.html\" title=\"Teaching? Technical writing?\">technical writing classes<\/a> to seeing what I can find at <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlecentral.edu\/\" title=\"Seattle Central Community College\">SCCC<\/a> to get the education ball rolling again.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s the word, and celebrations are in order. Last night I had a celebratory drink with Valindria and then hung out with her here for a while, and Prairie will be out this weekend, with plans including heading out to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.movies.go.com\/main.html\" title=\"King Arthur\">new King Arthur movie<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0461136\/\" title=\"Keira Knightley\">Keira Knightley<\/a> wearing a <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/gallery\/ss\/0349683\/Ss\/0349683\/10_KAC-C474-029AR-B.jpg?path=pgallery&amp;path_key=Knightley,%20Keira\" title=\"Studio Stills Photo\">whole lot of not very much<\/a> &#8212; yum!) and head to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoo.org\/\" title=\"Woodland Park Zoo\">zoo<\/a> to see their current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoo.org\/mow\/spiders.html\" title=\"Masters of the Web\">spider exhibit<\/a>, which should do a wonderful job of giving me the creeps. Between all that and the current incredible weather Seattle&#8217;s having (we&#8217;re predicted to hit 94\u00b0F today, 96\u00b0F tomorrow), it should make for a very good weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;King of Birds&#8221; by R.E.M. from the album <em>Document<\/em> (1987, 4:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new job within The Company! It doesn&#8217;t start for a couple weeks yet, but it&#8217;s a good&#8217;un: Monday to Friday 8am &#8211; 5pm, three blocks away from my apartment. Lots of rambling about the position and potential future plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}