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Tablesaw Tablesawsen ([personal profile] tablesaw) wrote2009-04-29 10:50 am

It's Official

Normally, I don't write about my work outside of locked posts, but something happened recently that's big enough that I need to make an exception.

Last week I got a promotion at work. I'm still going to be doing general proofreading work, but I'm also going to be in charge of a bunch of new administrative functions and other complicated stuff. The position and the system are new, so it's not entirely clear yet.

More important than that, I'm getting a significant raise.

And more important than that, I'm getting a new schedule.

After over eight years working on the graveyard shift, I'm finally going to be working daytime hours again: 8:30–5, Saturday–Wednesday.

(Yeah, I know, working weekends is a bitch, but I still think it's a step up all around.)

I start the new schedule on Sunday, and the new system gets started on Monday.

All in all, I think this merits my first poll on Dreamwidth (Open ID accounts can still respond.)

Poll #157 Promotional Consideration provided by . . . YOU!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15


How awesome is this promotion?

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Very
1 (6.7%)

Totally
3 (20.0%)

Incredibly
3 (20.0%)

Spectacularly
8 (53.3%)

Meh
0 (0.0%)

What should I do in Downtown LA during my new hour-long lunch break in my first week on the day shift?

What should I do in the evenings after work in my first week on the day shift?

What should I do on my first "weekend" (Thursday & Friday) after my first week on the day shift?

What should I do with my first post-raise paycheck to celebrate (around May 15)?

How's the Dreamwidth poll working out?

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Okay, I guess.
6 (40.0%)

Totally awesome.
4 (26.7%)

Better than I would have thought.
2 (13.3%)

It's a pain.
1 (6.7%)

How the hell should I know, I'm just answering questions here.
5 (33.3%)

The crossposter screwed it up on LJ in unexpected way.
0 (0.0%)

I wasn't able to answer the poll on Dreamwidth at all.
1 (6.7%)

No really, I wasn't able to post, and this response is not a paradox at all.
2 (13.3%)

I was hoping that the results would be private so I could tell you a titillating secret.
1 (6.7%)

Meh
2 (13.3%)

Anything else?