{"id":516,"date":"2002-04-09T17:03:33","date_gmt":"2002-04-10T01:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/09\/im-employed-again\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:58:17","slug":"im-employed-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/09\/im-employed-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m employed again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5642,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tripplanner.metrokc.gov&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20091002072329\\\/http:\\\/\\\/tripplanner.metrokc.gov:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:39:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 02:05:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:13:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:13:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16310,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp&amp;prodID=DT135&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?Xcntry=USA&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16311,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp&amp;prodID=DT6180&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?Xcntry=USA&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16312,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?prodID=DigiPath&amp;Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030309225620\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com:80\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?prodID=DigiPath&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 06:13:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:13:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:13:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16313,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?prodID=DC2060&amp;Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/go\\\/xrx\\\/template\\\/012.jsp?prodID=DC2060&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16314,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.andersen.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314061712\\\/https:\\\/\\\/andersen.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.andersen.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 16:44:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 12:18:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 00:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 00:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, after a whole week and a half of being unemployed, I start work again tomorrow! I&#8217;ll be working at the Xerox printshop on the Microsoft campus, the same place that I worked two days at last Friday and Saturday. I guess they liked me!<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/yay_for_temp_ag.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Yay for temp agencies!\">a few days ago<\/a>, Today&#8217;s was able to put me in a short 2 day post. The printshop is on the Microsoft campus out in Redmond, so it&#8217;s a bit of a commute, but a little research with the <a href=\"http:\/\/tripplanner.metrokc.gov\/\" title=\"This comes in so handy at times!\">Seattle Metro Trip Planner<\/a> and I had my bus schedule down pat. I left my apartment at about 12:30, walked up a few blocks, and caught a bus out to the bus depot in Redmond.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, things got a little dicey. One of the downsides to the trip planner is that when you need to walk somewhere to your next stop, it gives you the directions &#8216;WALK 0.2 MILES NORTH&#8217; or some such. Thing is, silly me, I&#8217;d  forgotten my compass (of course, I don&#8217;t actually <em>have<\/em> a compass, but hey&#8230;), and in my attempt to find my next bus stop, I walked the wrong way. I didn&#8217;t know this, however, until I got on the bus and started watching the street signs &#8212; and realized that the numbers were counting the wrong direction!<\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>The driver let me hop off, I walked back to the bus depot, and started walking the correct direction&#8230;and suddenly realized that I could see one of the buildings I&#8217;d been told to look for! Apparently all that second bus would have done was take me across the bridge over the highway, which I was in the midst of doing already. Well, cool enough &#8212; from there on, it was a fairly short walk to the building I was looking for, and I made it on time.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I walked in, I was pretty sure that this would be a print shop that would be fun to work in. The room is <em>huge<\/em>, and it&#8217;s got <em>tons<\/em> of cool toys to play with! One side of the room is the bindery area (cutting, binding, packing, etc.). The other side of the room had me practically drooling&#8230;(and yes, the following will mean very little to anyone who hasn&#8217;t worked in printshops before)&#8230;one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/go\/xrx\/template\/012.jsp?Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp&amp;prodID=DT135\" title=\"The first DT model I got to play with.\">DocuTech 135<\/a>, <em>five<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/go\/xrx\/template\/012.jsp?Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp&amp;prodID=DT6180\" title=\"Bigger and faster!\">Docutech 6180<\/a>&#8216;s (all with BookletMaker extentions), one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/go\/xrx\/template\/012.jsp?prodID=DigiPath&amp;Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp\" title=\"The software end of things.\">DigiPath<\/a> workstation, one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/go\/xrx\/template\/012.jsp?prodID=DC2060&amp;Xcntry=USA&amp;Xlang=en_US&amp;Xseg=corp\" title=\"The color version of the DocuTech.\">DocuColor 2060<\/a>, plus four smaller color machines that I didn&#8217;t catch the model numbers for, and an oversize color printer. Yikes! Very cool. :D<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get to play with any of the big toys while I was there, though &#8212; I&#8217;d been called in to help out in the bindery area with a couple big jobs that they had in. Apparently I was a hit, though &#8212; when I first told Karen, the evening shift supervisor, that I had quite a few years of prior printshop experience, she was thrilled to get someone that she wouldn&#8217;t have to train. Then, throughout the night, I kept surprising her when I was done with something and looking for more to do. Saturday there was a different shift supervisor coming off the afternoon shift, but two hours after I&#8217;d gotten there, she&#8217;d declared that they were keeping me, and by the end of the night, Karen was slipping a note under the boss&#8217;s (boss&#8217;?) door to see what they could do to hire me on, as they&#8217;ve got one person leaving at the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I passed this all on to Terri and Sally at Today&#8217;s, and they said they&#8217;d be sure to get ahold of the powers that be at Xerox and see what they had to say about the weekend. This morning, then, I get a call from Terri, who tells me that I should show up at the printshop tomorrow at 2pm, ready to go! I guess I made the right impressions with the right people, as I&#8217;m now confirmed for a long-term posting (so now, rather than working for Today&#8217;s for Xerox for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersen.com\/\" title=\"Are they still around?\">Andersen<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be working for Today&#8217;s for Xerox for Microsoft&#8230;funny how this all works).<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple caveats to the situation, of course.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I&#8217;ll be working Monday to Friday, 2pm-10:30pm. On the one hand, this is great, as I tend to enjoy evening schedules, and I&#8217;ll still have my weekends free &#8212; however, the bus jaunt is only really simple on the way out, by the time I&#8217;m coming back into town I&#8217;m well past peak bus time, and will be getting back home at around 1am each day. Candice has said that she&#8217;ll be able to give me rides some of the time, though, which should help  out.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest downside is that the starting pay rate is a whole whopping $9.74\/hr. However, this also goes to show some of why I really like going through Today&#8217;s &#8212; as they were setting this all up, they did mention to Xerox that with the experience I have, I should be worth more than that, and managed to confirm a performance review after 30 days to see about getting the pay scale bumped up closer to what I&#8217;d like to be getting! I&#8217;ve gotta say, I&#8217;m am nothing but thrilled with the service I&#8217;ve gotten going through Today&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the big news. Pretty cool, I&#8217;d say. The next month might be a bit tight on funds, since my pay rate just dropped by $2\/hr, and because of that I&#8217;m still not sure if I&#8217;ll be able to make the trip up this summer to see James and Stacy get married, but at least I have income again, and it&#8217;s not completely out of the question. Just gotta cross my fingers and see what happens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a whole week and a half of being unemployed, I start work again tomorrow! I&#8217;ll be working at the Xerox printshop on the Microsoft campus, the same place that I worked two days at last Friday and Saturday. 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