Time for my bi-annual blog Update!! Exciting. Well, what's new...Rachel and I are buying a hobby farm and moving out of the beautiful mobile home community where we currently live. We...are...excited. Now, of course, the task of cleaning up and getting things ready to move out begins, which is both a blessing and a curse. There is to ba e a lot of hard, physical work, which is unfortunate because seriously, who likes that? However, when you want to lose 800 pounds and get in a generally better condition, there's nothing better you can ask for. I don't have to go anywhere like the gym or the park to get my sweat on, my life will become the gym. My hope is that by the end of this fiasco i'm down about 15 pounds (a good start), but more importantly, I hope I just get my body used to getting up and doing rigorous things. My lifestyle is relatively sedentary lately, and I want to be much more active. I don't ever need to be a marathon runner, but I'd love it if a mile walk didn't leave my calves cramping up.
Anyway, still working at Verizon Wireless, doing more or less the same thing as I have done for the past 4 years, only now much, much less of it. The stores that are not being divested to another party are already all converted to VZW and don't often need our assistance. The stores that ARE being divested number less than twenty, and have become relatively self-sufficient. We still try to make it to all of the South MN area stores a few times a year or when we are needed for a technical matter, but most of our support can be done in the mail or over the phone. Over the next few months, we will be reduced in number from six 40-hour-a-week employees to four, the night shift may very well be eliminated, and if ticket counts remain where they are, we may lose another, bringing us down to three employees. I luckily enjoy both senority and a general sense of being appreciated and needed here, so i know I'll be among the last to leave this place, and when I do, the transitional VZW/Unicel Tech team willbe no more. The remaining question is whether that general sense of being liked and wanted will spread, not unlike the much discussed swine flu, to the powers that be at VZW. If the Benno=plague infects the minds and hearts of those in power at my new employer, I may indeed be able to join the ranks of the 68,000 full-time Verizon Wireless employees and not end up looking for a job in Alexandria, MN in the worst economic times since the great depression.
More to come!
Benno
Anyway, still working at Verizon Wireless, doing more or less the same thing as I have done for the past 4 years, only now much, much less of it. The stores that are not being divested to another party are already all converted to VZW and don't often need our assistance. The stores that ARE being divested number less than twenty, and have become relatively self-sufficient. We still try to make it to all of the South MN area stores a few times a year or when we are needed for a technical matter, but most of our support can be done in the mail or over the phone. Over the next few months, we will be reduced in number from six 40-hour-a-week employees to four, the night shift may very well be eliminated, and if ticket counts remain where they are, we may lose another, bringing us down to three employees. I luckily enjoy both senority and a general sense of being appreciated and needed here, so i know I'll be among the last to leave this place, and when I do, the transitional VZW/Unicel Tech team willbe no more. The remaining question is whether that general sense of being liked and wanted will spread, not unlike the much discussed swine flu, to the powers that be at VZW. If the Benno=plague infects the minds and hearts of those in power at my new employer, I may indeed be able to join the ranks of the 68,000 full-time Verizon Wireless employees and not end up looking for a job in Alexandria, MN in the worst economic times since the great depression.
More to come!
Benno
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