Well, here we are...(November 2011)

[safari]

In case any of you have made your way here - welcome! Hopefully we won't need to use this board for long (if at all), but since we don't know how long the regular one is going to be down for (hopefully not too much longer), it seems best to open this one up for the time being. Maybe nobody will want to post anything, and that's fine, but it's here just in case...and for us all to touch base with one another.

[katherinehsp]

I am here!

But can't think of anything to say..

[safari]

Lol, glad you made it! Yeah, it's hard to know whether to carry on with our normal discussion or to bide our time and hope the other board comes back soon...I suspect it COULD take a few more days for the issues to be sorted out, but maybe not. I think there are going to be some changes, so we should all brace ourselves. :/ Hopefully they will be for the better...eventually.

[kathi]

I'm here too.

[spock]

I made it too.
Hopefully it won't be too long.

Spock

[katherinehsp]

I hope it isn't like Aimoo

[safari]

Yeah, I must say the whole Aimoo debacle has crossed my mind more than once over the past couple of days. Fingers crossed it won't happen again. Forumer is apparently migrating all the forums to new servers, and they do seem to be having some unforeseen issues which has frustrated a lot of forum owners. So we are in good company, at least. :/

[citygal]

Checking in. Glad to see everyone. Isn't it good I saved this link a while back for future problems.

Hey all I got a job! Earlier this week. It's part time/independent contractor, which is what I wanted. Ironically, I will not be doing what I was trained to do in the medical transcription program. They need me to do speech recognition and will train me. I'm glad, because I've wanted to learn it since it is a skill that medical transcription is going toward, so I will be quite current with my job skills and it will open more doors in the future.

[Citygal]

Trying to log in but do not know what a CAPTCHA code is, and cannot get it to send me my password (it is not taking the one I usually use).

Sigh ...

Hopefully we will soon be back to the old website.

Thanks, admins, for getting the forumer website bugs worked out for us.

[katherinehsp]

CAPTCHA code is just something you have to type in... like the ad will say something like

Type: Like a Rock

And you just type that in.

Yeh it confused me for a bit too.

[Luna]

Hi there, I'm glad to see a few people have made it over here! So much for the board only being down for 24 hours! I hope it doesn't go on too much longer. And yeah I certainly hope we don't have another aimoo-type debacle where we lose posts or anything like that.. well fingers crossed. I'm glad we have this place to connect. Citygal congratulations on your job!! And great you get to learn a new skill. I really hope this works out for you. Katherine I hope you are having a nice time on your vacation. I know it takes some time to get out of your every day mode but imho it is still very much worth it and in fact necessary. A lot of places in North America only give two weeks vacation and that is not enough. If you don't get away from work and refresh your mind, body and soul every now and then productivity is going to suffer. 7 weeks, wow Safari, I'm insanely envious! I've never heard of anyone having vacation time like that unless they were a teacher. Geez maybe I need to move to NZ!! But yeah it's still much better than the Japanese, I remember talking to people who said they had one holiday day a year, New Year's Day. Yikes. I agree though that if you ever have a chance it would be good to at least take one week.. two weeks is ideal but even a week is enough time to give yourself a rest and get out of your regular mode. I don't know if your job allows you to take more than a few days in a row or not?
Anyway on my side I had my last day at my job on Friday. This week was not easy as I got a cold and was just struggling to complete everything I needed to by the end of the week. And I start my new job on Monday, so it will be a quick transition. Wish my luck next week, I really hope it goes okay. It's never easy having to learn everything new again and new people and new environment again. Anyway I'm looking forward to a change and hopefully a slower pace and less stress I hope. (PS yes that captcha thing is really weird..never seen that before)

[katherinehsp]

Nov 19, 2011 15:39:39 GMT -6 Luna said:

Anyway on my side I had my last day at my job on Friday. This week was not easy as I got a cold and was just struggling to complete everything I needed to by the end of the week. And I start my new job on Monday, so it will be a quick transition. Wish my luck next week, I really hope it goes okay.

Luck to you Luna.. it is always hard an insanely stressful to finish up one job and then go to another and isn't the other in another city? I am surprised you worked hard at all at that last job, I would not have been so nice, and I would have done very little. But that is me. I really think this is a positive step for you and will lead to something much better.. I want you to know I am jealous.

PS city I didn't even see your first post.. CONGRATS... very happy for you. Again, jealous.

PS 2.. I have decided to talk up a storm here because I am going away and, because, my luck is always, if I do something like talk a lot, the other forum will come back. So see, that is my theory.

[Luna]

lol, I like our theory katherine! We're hoping it will come back soon but unfortunately have no way of knowing when that will be. :/ Thanks for your kind words. Yes I worked late most nights last week trying to put my files in order and on Friday spent a lot of time cleaning out my office and my electronic files and email. Apparently my emails will be archived for 7 years for audit purposes so I went in and cleaned out a lot of stuff.. I didn't get rid of anything important but just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything in there I didn't want anyone to see. So yeah that took a long time.. and a part of me was thinking screw it why do I even care but truth be told that's just not me, I've always left things in order when ending a job and cleaned out my office. And of course I had my manager coming into my office every five minutes breathing down my neck asking me where I was at with everything. Even on my last day she had to give me grief about something I was supposed to follow up on that I had that she was following up on. I just shook my head and thought thank God I am getting out of here..thank God. It was a huge sense of relief. There was more but I don't know how much I should talk about on here. I was planning to post on the board and continue the thread but oh well.. I'll just talk a bit about it briefly. There is a lady who works in the translation department for the past twenty years and she has been gone for like two months and nobody said where she was. I realized I wouldn't get a chance to say bye to her so I wrote her an email and sent my personal email address... well a few seconds later she is at my office door and she came in especially to say bye to me. She then told me she is facing depression and seeing a psychologist because of years of pressure and stress and burnout and she says to me, it's good you are getting out of here, look at what work stress does to you, it will kill you. Wow. I was very affected by that. She didn't look well poor lady. Oh my. Anyway all this to say that, I can't believe I spent three and a half years of my life slaving away and giving my life to a job. It wasn't worth it. In the end did anyone really appreciate what I did. Well I know our partners did.. that much I know for sure. I wrote an email to them to say goodbye and all this week was flooded with heartfelt emails with such kind words of appreciation. I printed out each email and reminded myself any time I feel bad about myself or the job I did there I need to read these emails. And these are from senior government officials from around the world. Anyway I asked them not to have their usual cake and coffee goodbye in the boardroom. A) I know I probably would have ended up crying and B) it doesn't feel right to me considering i was let go. I also told them not to get me any kind of card or gift but they did. Which was nice... they actually gave me a $100 gift certificate for a clothing and home decor store I really like. Which was quite nice. I'm going to go shopping and get some new clothes for my new job. So.. life moves on. I'm trying really hard not to feel bitter and angry about it. That seems to be coming up quite a bit when I reflect on my manager and her treatment of me but I know i need to let it go and start fresh. It's a new beginning for me and I intend to do my best at my new job. I did interview for a job in another city but I won't hear anything from them till next week plus they may require an in person meeting which for me would be impossible as it costs like $700 to fly there so I'm not holding out hope for that one. If they offer me a job without meeting me in person that would be great but I guess yeah I'm not holding out for that to happen. The job I accepted is temporary, sort of a stop gap measure until I move out West in the spring which is my current plan.

[safari]

Yay Citygal! Congrats! I hope you enjoy your new job - sounds like it'll be good for you! And yes, I think that Captcha code thing is just the word that appears that you have to type into the box to prove that you're a human being and not a robot. I'm actually just wondering how you were able to post without being properly registered...hmm. Might have to look at that. Not because I want to prevent YOU from posting, but to prevent other random strangers. Although, it looks like the old board is back up, so we can probably put this one back into maintenance mode again shortly. Katherine, it looks like your theory worked!

Luna, I'm so glad you've finished up at that job. Hope your first day at the new one goes smoothly! It's nice that your former colleagues gave you a gift and all, but, oh my gosh...that manager! I hope karma gets her one day. Sad story about the translation department lady, but at least it proves that it's not just you having issues with that place.