torand.org » Work http://torand.org the power of two became one Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:09:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 I have updated already.. Paul… http://torand.org/2008/03/29/spring-ahead/ http://torand.org/2008/03/29/spring-ahead/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:34:20 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/2008/03/29/spring-ahead/ It has been a long time since I posted anything as one of my friends keeps telling me. Ok, so for him here it is… get off my back.

Well so many things have changed in the past few months, let me try to fill in the highlights.

  • I left mail storage and moved over to portal services, the division that run most of the web services at AOL.
  • I am now on my third new manager in less than six months.
  • I was caught in the latest reorg at AOL, hence the third manager and I am getting all new projects at AOL.
  • Bought a new Mac Book Pro laptop – I love it!!!!
  • Erika graduated from Liberty in December, she will walk on May 10th.

Those are the highlights. Since the last reorg I am still waiting for my new projects. It looks like I will get AOL Latino, and AOL Games. I have not talked to the transition admins yet.

Other than that things are moving along. My parents wrecked their car last month, my dad at 88 decided to give up his driving license. Not a bad decision, when he drove it made mom crazy.

I will try to update a little more regularly, later.

]]> http://torand.org/2008/03/29/spring-ahead/feed/ 0 I am working where? http://torand.org/2007/11/14/i-am-working-where/ http://torand.org/2007/11/14/i-am-working-where/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:13:34 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/2007/11/14/i-am-working-where/ So my manager was laid off along with 749 other people last month. It has taken almost a full month for my tech director to decide how to split up the team. My thoughts, as with many, is that myself and the other web technology guy would go to the Portal team and the other 4 on the team would go to another messaging team.

Everything worked out with just one hitch that has most of us scratching our heads. I was moved to Mail Storage. Me, the guy on our team with the most web technology experience is working with storage arrays. I have zero experience with storage, but over 13 years experience with web technology. Yeah that is a good fit.

When I met with my tech manager and he told me what he was going to do, he seemed genuinely shocked that I was not happy about this move. “Not happy” does not truly get across what I feel about this move, “Mad enough to spit nails” come closer, “Mad enough to look for a new job” is closer still. This is a move backward for me, I have been trying to move into more visible projects. To get myself visible outside of my division. This move goes in the opposite direction, storage is a back end process within mail. From what I see I get nothing from this move but my tech manager can say that he has fixed a problem area in our division.

I need to resolve this, it is keeping me up at night, literally check out the timestamp on this post. That is 3 AM not PM.

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