There’s a blizzard in Chicago now. In fact the last few weeks have been full of some of the worst weather I’ve ever seen. Temperatures around zero, sometimes going up to twenty long enough for some snow fall. This morning it was nearly a three-hour trip into work, and I left at 5:30 in the morning, when there’s normally no traffic.
Sorry for the lack of posting, been really busy.
I have officially been offered the new job, so I’ve been running around going to meetings, getting forms together, and working on my transition from contractor to employee.
I came in on the day I had to do my drug screening, just to be told the place to do it was four miles from home, so I lost nearly a whole day to travel there. I’ve been working with this lady performing my background check, and apparently my history is more shady than I would have believed. Two companies I worked for in the last seven years have gone belly-up. While I have W-2’s for one of them (albeit it’s a pain because my records from 2004 aren’t the most organized), the other company paid me with a personal check, so I have NO record of ever working for them. My boss doesn’t think that should be a problem, and has had me contact HR just to make sure.
I hope it pans out. The IT business in this area is not exactly booming, I’m very lucky to have been offered this job and it would be a shame to lose it on a technicality.
Zel-kun out.
Julie Scott | 04-Feb-08 at 2:31 pm | Permalink
Wow. Your background processing sounds brutal. Every company David has worked for (all 2 of them) were out of business when he got back in the job hunting game, but I don’t know that he ever got a huge amount of trouble about it. (Of course, then again, he had some potential offers go south pretty late in the process, so maybe it was more of a factor than I’d though about? Hmmm.. food for thought.)