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Jan. 8th, 2010 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThere was a really weird coincidence today. I suppose that's redundant; coincidences are weird by definition. But still, this kind of left me agape.
About fifteen minutes after I posted that page-spanning rant about what I'm dealing with at work, I got a note from my manager asking for a quick phone meeting. I knew these were coming up, but I was still briefly horrified that somehow he'd seen what I'd written.
What it was, was my company is consolidating some seven-hundred-plus job descriptions and titles into about two hundred and fifty of them. I have a new title: Desktop Support Analyst II. I also have a 2.5% pay increase. He says he wanted to give me significantly more than that, but the company wasn't allowing him to right now. What he can offer is for me to finally start working with the server/network team in the Spring when all our migration projects are done as we look at moving me to a more networking oriented role. I could finally start taking advantage of the Cisco CCNA cert work paid for me to get, oh, a year ago.
As I told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
serinthia in IM, I'm excited. I think.
I have to decide, given this new information, if I actually want to change my mind and stick around this pit of chaos and hope for better work (and eventually more money) on the chance that I'll get moved over to networking, or whether I should give up the evil I know for one I don't, and jump ship to another company's IT department, or try to become an electrician. I'm...just not sure right now. I do know that, if I hadn't gotten this phone call today, there would have been no choice at all; I'd be as good as gone from where I am now. So weird, the timing.
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So while I've thought about that this evening, I've consolidated my IBM Model M keyboard collection. (posicat, this is the site I just told you about on the phone. You want to click the 'Model M Archive Project link at the top.) I have four of them. Three of them are the most common model, and range in date from '89 to '92. Two of them are complete, and one is a parts board that was missing keys when I bought it. But I have one that's a rare breed. Built in '86, when I was wee pup typing away on my parents' Commodre 64, it's a type 1390120 that is so old it doesn't even have LEDs for the lock lights. I don't have the original AT cable for it, regrettably, but the PS/2 cables from the newer boards fit it. I think after I get everything ready for the move, I'm going to take the working ones apart and give them a thorough deep-clean. They've been around for twenty years, give or take, and the grime on and under the keys really shows it. But can you think of any other piece of computer hardware that lasts like these things do?
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Ok, I thought I was done gushing about keyboards, but I found this in the FAQ section of that keyboard site.
That's awesome. Keep the old-school keyboard faith, my bearded brother. I'm of a different religion, but I respect your beliefs.
About fifteen minutes after I posted that page-spanning rant about what I'm dealing with at work, I got a note from my manager asking for a quick phone meeting. I knew these were coming up, but I was still briefly horrified that somehow he'd seen what I'd written.
What it was, was my company is consolidating some seven-hundred-plus job descriptions and titles into about two hundred and fifty of them. I have a new title: Desktop Support Analyst II. I also have a 2.5% pay increase. He says he wanted to give me significantly more than that, but the company wasn't allowing him to right now. What he can offer is for me to finally start working with the server/network team in the Spring when all our migration projects are done as we look at moving me to a more networking oriented role. I could finally start taking advantage of the Cisco CCNA cert work paid for me to get, oh, a year ago.
As I told
serinthia in IM, I'm excited. I think. I have to decide, given this new information, if I actually want to change my mind and stick around this pit of chaos and hope for better work (and eventually more money) on the chance that I'll get moved over to networking, or whether I should give up the evil I know for one I don't, and jump ship to another company's IT department, or try to become an electrician. I'm...just not sure right now. I do know that, if I hadn't gotten this phone call today, there would have been no choice at all; I'd be as good as gone from where I am now. So weird, the timing.
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So while I've thought about that this evening, I've consolidated my IBM Model M keyboard collection. (
posicat, this is the site I just told you about on the phone. You want to click the 'Model M Archive Project link at the top.) I have four of them. Three of them are the most common model, and range in date from '89 to '92. Two of them are complete, and one is a parts board that was missing keys when I bought it. But I have one that's a rare breed. Built in '86, when I was wee pup typing away on my parents' Commodre 64, it's a type 1390120 that is so old it doesn't even have LEDs for the lock lights. I don't have the original AT cable for it, regrettably, but the PS/2 cables from the newer boards fit it. I think after I get everything ready for the move, I'm going to take the working ones apart and give them a thorough deep-clean. They've been around for twenty years, give or take, and the grime on and under the keys really shows it. But can you think of any other piece of computer hardware that lasts like these things do?---
Ok, I thought I was done gushing about keyboards, but I found this in the FAQ section of that keyboard site.
How do I remap my Caps Lock key to the Ctrl key?
I'm a neckbeard and I need a keyboard with the Ctrl key where God intended in to be. (next to the "A" key)
That's awesome. Keep the old-school keyboard faith, my bearded brother. I'm of a different religion, but I respect your beliefs.
