Started my new job on Monday...

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

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."

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Flint

She has motivated me to drive an hour away everyday.

Fixed that for you.


I'm kidding, kidding!!

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Flint

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.

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.

[robsterman1]

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