I am back in action from the Corporate SPy's visit.
Its also very busy at the end of the month and the beginning of the next. Lots of measuring and planning going on. End of the quarter too. So we have Quarterly financials to prepare and look at.
We did well, got a B+ on our review. I am not sure how many A's they give out but I am sure it isnt many. This is a growing company and we are at the top of the leaderboard. It isnt because we are slackers!
OK - so back to my history. I start my new job, based in Baltimore, but working for national and international clients - could be anywhere depending on where certain skillsets are needed. First week of this turns out pretty rough. I am working for a client in Bethesda and Gaithersburg - a horrible commute from my home. Good news is that I am partly working at the client's office and partly at my own office so I am often commuting at odd times. It is tough though because the people that had started this project had left halfway through and left sort of a mess.
I end up working about 90 hours my first week. I had no idea it would be like this. I had been told that it would be tough but this is crazy. I ended my first week by having a meeting with my 2 bosses (one a partner in the firm) at 4 AM on saturday morning. The sun was coming up as we were going over a presentation. I was allowed to have the rest of the day off and was back in at 9 AM on Sunday morning to finish it up.
I got another short term gig working in downtown washington for a few weeks. It was also a nightmare because of the people and politics involved. The guy who was in charge of the project would not speak to the person that I was working with so I had to act as the intermediary and have phone conversations with the Boss about the guy with me giving one word answers to questions like "wash that a$$hole doing this today?" and such.
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