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Job annoyance

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Well, that’s annoying. I had an informal interview today with a recruiter, but it was only $25/hour and a contract that was only until the end of the year, so I said I wasn’t interested in that particular role. It was a pain to get to as well… it shouldn’t have been, but there’s been a bunch of construction on the way to the area, which meant Google Maps was totally wrong. Urgh.

And I was meant to get a call for that job that’s ten minutes away from home, but didn’t. Emailed the lady that originally contacted me, no reply. Called her, and her voice message was “I’m not available, please send me an email”. Useful!

On the bright side, I’ve got two interviews tomorrow, the one at Atlassian that I mentioned previously, and one at Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney. Which is a Catholic girls high school. If I got that job, I could say, “At work I’m surrounded by Catholic schoolgirls!” and it’d be true. Hah.

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Well, it looks like our luck may be turning around! kungfupolarbear had an interview this morning for a QA position at a place only about ten minutes drive from our house, and she did so well they want to get her in for a second interview next week!

I’ve gotten two more responses to jobs, both for interviews, one is also about ten minutes from here, and another is in the city. The first is a Mac service-type job, the second is for a company called Atlassian that makes software development tools and are apparently pretty huge, from looking at their customer list! And next week should be when I hear back from MyMac as well.

Myself and a few ex-Apple people went for a photo outing today, we just went wandering around the city and Darling Harbour, I managed to get a few good ones! And from my lowly point-and-shoot PowerShot S5, no less.

Maritime Heritage Centre

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Yes, it’s more job stuff!

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I had the interview at MyMac today. It went very well. They’re definitely interested in hiring me, but they’re just not quite sure in exactly what capacity yet! They were saying they’re looking at expanding and hiring some more staff, and they realise that someone with my skills doesn’t just walk in off the street every day. The store manager is going to a conference in Chicago for a week starting next week, so they won’t have a chance to put their heads together (there were two guys interviewing me, the store manager and the chief operations manager) and work out exactly what they’ll do. It might even be a new role that they create.

I already know three other people there, all from the call centre, so I’d fit right in. They’ve also got three people from the Apple Retail Store on Regent St in London, so there’s quite the pool of talent there!

I won’t hear anything until probably week after next, but that’s okay. I’ll just enjoy the unemployment! Hah.

Monies!

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Woo! My redundancy pay came in today. We now have ZERO debt of any sort! It’s a good feeling.

Although the lack of job is less good, heh. I’ve been applying for a bunch of jobs, got a follow-up questionnaire email from one this morning, I’ve replied to that so we’ll see how things go.

On a totally different note, anyone who has an Xbox 360 and likes tower defense games should check out Toy Soldiers on Xbox Live Arcade. It’s a WWI-themed game and is fantastically fun. I’ve been playing it rather obsessively since it came out last week!

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And having mentioned the jobless thing, I just noticed there’s two positions for Mac Service Technicians at local service centres, one just five minutes drive up the road in Chatswood and the other at Bondi Junction, where several of the people from the call centre have actually ended up! I’ve applied for both. 😀

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Well. I’m now officially unemployed. It was a weird feeling handing my badge in and leaving the building for the last time.

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We’re all erasing our work computers and re-installing the OS afresh. It’s all kind of sad. Everyone is sitting around all melancholy.

My machine’s home folder has come from the original 15″ G4 iMac I used when I first started in October 2003, and I kept migrating it from machine to machine to machine. I’ve got so much stuff on here, over six years worth. I’ve copied everything to home that I’m wanting to keep at least.

This will be the last post ever from my Apple work machine. Sigh.

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Fucking cunting arse. I didn’t get that sysadmin job. And what’s more, they didn’t even tell me. I had to get the friend who used to work there to ask around about and he told me. Ugh. Rude bastards. And the reason for the rejection was that someone else “had more experience”. I’m getting rather sick of that phrase. Apparently it turns out that six years supporting Apple products counts for absolutely nothing.

So as of the end of Friday this week, I’m officially unemployed. 🙁 I’ve applied to a number of jobs and on the whole have heard nothing at all, beyond the occasional “You didn’t get the role” emails.

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Still nothing on the job front.

In other news, I’ve installed VMware Fusion 3 on my Mac mini server and am going to install Windows Server 2008 on it, mostly for fiddling and learning purposes. A friend has a copy from MSDN with a legitimate key, so woo! Learnings are fun.

We’re busily sitting at work doing very little, and talking complete shit in the joint internal iChat server that the Tier 2s from both Sydney and Singapore are in. It’s fun!

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Arrrrghhhhh.

I was meant to hear something today about the job I interviewed for on Tuesday, and have heard nothing. 🙁 I spent the whole day being anxious and have nothing to show for it, dammit!

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Well, that was odd.

It turns out that that SuperDuper backup that was apparently not working yesterday actually is, and for some reason it just didn’t want to let me mount it in my regular non-admin user (the backup was done from the admin user)! It’s something to do with permissions, but I don’t know why because the permissions were set to rwxrwxr-x, so it ought to have worked.

Anyway, I restored the server successfully and everything is working perfectly.

For lunch I’m nomming on left-over pizza made by my beautiful and talented kungfupolarbear… home-made pizza crust, with spinach and chunks of seasoned chicken. NOM NOM NOM. Even better was when we had it for dinner on Tuesday night, accompanied by (proper American!) ranch dressing and green Tabasco sauce.

Speaking of green Tabasco sauce, WHY DO THEY NOT SELL IT HERE?! omfg it’s fantastic. kungfupolarbear‘s mum sent some over along with various other goodies, and holy shit. I am very sad that I haven’t been able to find any shops that sell it. There’s plenty of the regular red kind, but no green. 🙁