Started my new job on Monday...
 

I leave at 5:45 to beat the traffic...it's a nice drive; once I clear the metroplex it's all country highways. The nice thing about starting the day early is that staying 'til 5:00 is staying late. I'm on salary here, so I'll have to watch my workaholism.

It's a small facility, but all brand-new equipment--and it was conceived of and designed to be completely paperless (ironically much more advanced than the big chain facility I came from in the big city).

So far, I've yet to see a Feild Engineer for my primary system (PACS in Radiology) and I haven't flown out for the vendor training yet, so I'm kind of poking around and taking inventory of things... not much I can do without even having a login yet.

I'm also shadowing the two other IT guys to get a taste of everything we support. Oh, btw, we're Biomed too. And we do the phones. And TVs. And Plant Ops is under the CIO (our boss) also. Basically I'm down this hallway with every non-clinical support department. I came here so that I can learn everything.

You won't see me much for a while. I'm still trying to get a footing on something I can be useful at, here.

It sounds great, Flint. How exciting to start a new job, and find your niche in a new place. I'm looking forward to that as well, though a bit scared.

Knock 'em dead!

Good luck in your new job!
Sounds like an awfully long day though...

Yea. I like it when it's all paper-less. I like the supervisor check-ins via the e-mail too. No one looking over my shoulder at my desk. I hate that.

The monitoring was done by production and production standards which I excel at (one thing woo) and outside of that, all I had to to is swipe my badge into the building at the right time, log in, and produce so much a week. When I needed to ask a question I could just write the e-mail. Outside of that, it was so well set-up that all I was expected to do was my job and not work out personality, or politcal work conflicts. That was a good job. No personalities to screw with your day. Just the job at hand.

It's too bad that you can't be around much, but a good job is quite worth it. Good luck to you and I hope the learning curve doesn't turn into a jack-knife turn..You'll do great I am sure.

There's my nice for the day. Good luck.:D

Heeheee, I've been training my boss all morning on a part of my job she will be doing until they replace me. IN between I have been training another cow orker on another part of my job. I feel vindicated when they're like "this is a pain in the ass!" Ch'yeah, I KNOW.

Now I have to go to another college for a scholarship meeting, to help my cow orker transition to a part of my job she will be taking over.

That leaves only three other parts of my job left to train someone to do.

They're very lucky, I actually have work procedures I did in case I got hit by the proverbial bus. They haven't been updated lately, but it's almost all there! Working in QA for defense contractors for so many years, I'm a stickler for written procedures.

Ahem, people, Friday is my last day!

Very cool Flint.

Can you give me a rundown on the makes of the equipment: Varian, Stryker, etc. and your opinions of each.

TIA!

Hah! I love training the boss on the jobs I had to do. The last time I did that, I got the response, "well, I'll never be doing that".....

*couldn't figure it out* haaah!

Congrats, Flint :D

Gosh, Flint, that sounds bloody marvellous. How thoroughly exciting.

Don't hurry back, and I mean that in the nicest possible way :P What an opportunity to learn.

Good luck, have fun and I look forward to hearing about it when you have more time.

Sounds a lot like all the training I had to do, all the "Yes, this IS a pain in the ass!" I had to do, and all the documentation I had to update and move into shared folders etc. to pass multiple job duties on to multiple people. It does make you feel pretty good about yourself when you realize all the little things you do to keep the place running. It's a huge relief, once you've done your best to hand things over, to leave it all behind and start fresh.

yay flint, you deserve this :)

You're my inspiration for this coming huge life change, Flint! I'm glad to hear it's going well! I'm going to feel very relieved tomorrow!

(I haven't even started cleaning out my office!)

Three more trainings today...

Almost there Shawnee!

Wow, are you serious? I guess I have blogged the whole process here... Thanks to all for their advice along the way.

On this end, all the credit goes to Pooka. She has motivated me to drive towards what I'm capable of instead of just coasting along.

Behind every great man, there is a great woman prodding him firmly in the kidney.

That's right! Pooka and Flint, from what I've read on Cellar, are a great couple. I can see them years from now, watching their grandchildren, holding hands, and remembering their "salad days." Kudos to both of you.

I'm getting cards and well wishes, Tim Horton's coffee and Timbits for the suite, and a lot of people have brought in food. What nice people.

I still have 2 more little things to train someone (things pop up when you think you're almost done) and today is going to be a roller coaster.

Then again, I haven't talked to the other job this week, and my defeatist attitude keeps saying "it could all still blow up in your face."

:rolleyes:

Fixed that for you.


I'm kidding, kidding!!

Sounds a lot like the job I had at Siemens Medical (Biomed). IT had to do the phones, tv's/video conferencing, presentations, servers, workstations, support homegrown apps, etc. In fact the only computer equipment we didn't work on were the actual instruments. Those were handled by someone else. We also had to be certified in CPR and using the defribulator.

At my current job, I'm in charge of all macs, pc's, servers, routers, switches, cabling, software, printers, security cameras and doors, etc. and I'm trying to build a real IT department. The people in entertainment are strange. I put up an internet filter to protect the company, and all I'm blocking are streaming video for about 1/3 of employees, and porn. They called me a fascist for that. I could make their lives a living nightmare, but I'm being cool about things. I'm trying to give them an adjustment period.

The Mac users want to know why we even need security. Of course.

Good luck in your new job Flint. Wow the ladies and shock the boss :D