are you kidding me

my former manager ymed me today. he was flown into town by a company where a bunch of my ex-coworkers work, which gave me a job offer before i accept my current job. he and the company’s vp of engineering were discussing a proposal to hire the VN outsource company (which is the same one that our former company had hired) for some of their work. after telling me this, my ex-manager asked me if i would have an interest in going to work for the other company as the local US contact in charge of the outsourced operations. what in the world he was smoking, i have no idea. working primarily with the outsource (and foreign office) teams severely degraded my personal and professional life. i am so happy at my current job. it would take a salary of a greater order of magnitude (i mean this in the strict mathematical sense) for me to even remotely consider to the tiniest amount working like that again, and even then i might turn it down, and would only consider it because it would mean i could retire in a few years. 😀 anyway, i explained that i like that other company (because i sincerely do, and i don’t want to burn any bridges), but that i am quite happy here and reminded him that working with non-local teams was too much for me.

it was a bizarre moment for me, as i had told him about how bad the working environment was countless times before. perhaps i was sticking too closely to my “not being negative at work” rule and painted a somewhat ambiguous picture. eh.

confessions

1. i cheated and started early on my bad novel. i meant to write out some ideas, but instead wrote prose, which is against the rules. i wrote about 2.5 pages last night. i might dump it and write up some other ideas to whittle down to by the end of this month.
   
2. i was in a one-hour meeting that i totally faked understanding. i mean, i understand the higher-level concepts, but the lower-level details were like, “Blah blah is built on blah, but don’t you think there might be an issue if we implement the blah layer on blah because of blabbitygook?”
3. my desk is a mess, but i claim to know where everything is. but i actually think i don’t know.