The day started off fairly normal. I was reading about COBOL, eating my breakfast, it was a fairly quiet morning.<\/p>\n
11am we have our weekly status meeting. Remember last year when I was working on the big, awful, database thing? Well, it seems IMB is taking over all the development and testing of the big, awful, database thing. Our project, cute, little, database thing happens to be a part of the big thing. Long story short, we will no longer be working on our project anymore.<\/p>\n
Hurray you say? No COBOL??? Yeah, that’s what I thought. That’s what Brad originally said too. Then he said, no, we already started this tiny little piece of the COBOL coding, we may as well finish it.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
WHAT THE FUCK!!????!!! WHY???????????? I say, if the stupid IBM people want the stupid project so bad, THEY<\/em> SHOULD FINISH IT! They’re probably better at COBOL than me anyway! <\/p>\n It gets worse. I come back from the meeting and there’s a Q from Joe asking me to update my resume. I do, he sends it off to, big… whatever, the project Maryam’s working on. He sent this dude like everyone’s resumes and he decides he wants to interview me… TODAY. X( <\/p>\n Oh and did I mention the AC was broken so it was like 85 degrees in our room? So, I’m sitting there, sweating, trying to finish the last C part of my project, I could feel my brain oozing out of my head and I have to be interviewed.<\/p>\n The interview was almost an hour and a half. He asked me questions about Calculus. I just spit out some crap about integrals. He also had me list all the CS classes I’ve taken. That was harder. I hadn’t even thought about most of them in a year. I had to explain projects I purposely wiped from my memory. If I had time to prepare I would have, you know, gone through my transcript, looked through some of my old code. I didn’t even have my code there.<\/p>\n It doesn’t matter, because he liked me anyway. He said he was impressed by my GPA and I communicate well o_O Apparently brain ooze communicates well. <\/p>\n When I got back to my office I had a text message from Joe. He wanted to know how the interview went. I called him and told him it went well. I was so exhausted by that point and I’m pretty sure I sounded like it.<\/p>\n To summarize: now that development is finally going to be done for my current project including FUCKING COBOL, instead of getting to relax a little for two months during testing, I’m going to be working on a new, harder project. Not that a challenge isn’t good, but *whimper*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day started off fairly normal. I was reading about COBOL, eating my breakfast, it was a fairly quiet morning. 11am we have our weekly status meeting. Remember last year when I was working on the big, awful, database thing? Well, it seems IMB is taking over all the development and testing of the big, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-3W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}