Work updates...

[denjiro]

Well, I'm finally back among the workforce. Started the three week training for my new tech/customer support job with Apple of all places. Brand new building, we appear to be among the first classes. Though they are running 8 classes of approximately 25 people simultaneously. The job looks to be cake, support for iPod and iPod touch. The pay is not bad, $15 hr. We're contracting through Volt, so benefits aren't the best, but the do at least offer medical(Up yours AT&T.). And from what our trainer has said, something like 60% of Apples employees were hired from Volt. And as it's a new location, lots of promotion opportunities, such as Tier 2 support. I also heard mention of an email support department, which I'd definitely be interested in. The training hours are a bit annoying, 3:30pm - 12:30am but not awful. The building isn't finished being turned into a cube farm yet, the department manager apologized profusely for that, but it does mean they're going to be adding more perks and amenities for the employees. Generally I'm impressed. So far all of the Apple management I've met give the impression the actually care about the employees and don't just consider them expendable resources. I'm not terribly fond of the Apple propaganda(We actually watched Apple commercials as part of training.), but getting paid to become proficient in OS 10.5 is worth the minor annoyance. This will at least be a nice resume addition, both for work experience and skill set. I'd still rather have gotten the job at Highwind, but this one has some good points as well, not the least of which it's fairly close. About 7 miles one way. Farther than Go Daddy was, but much better than the 15 for Highwind. My run home tonight only took about 11 minutes.