Hi Ho Hi Ho...
This post is NOT meant to be a complete suck-up... I really am QUITE pleased!
Whoo, so much work-related controversy these days surrounding email privacy, IMs, and blogs. Just found out today that my boss reads my blog. Well, I'd suspected ; ) That being said...

I totally have the best boss in the world!! I've been working for Microservices for two years now in various ways shapes and forms and I've really gotten to know and love the people there. I feel entirely priveleged to work for them. I'm not kissing up or being sarcastic here, let me explain. Microservices is the University of Oregon tech support desk. Basically we service the whole school's faculty, staff, and students in some way. Except the law school, they're yuppie separatists who have their OWN techies. I've been working as a consultant for the math and theatre departments for a year now. This basically means that I have a desk in the department and people call me if they need help with anything, we set up a time, and I go take a look. Some problems difficult; some easy. It's been fun so far. I was really hoping, earlier this year, to continue working the position over the summer... but, boss-man said he was probably going to be over-staffed and short on budget so, lamentedly, I deigned to work 20 hours a week at my job and try to find other campus work. At first, I couldn't. A similar position in the Honors College rejected me for not wanting to defect to them year round. I couldn't find anything non-work study. SO I was pissed. But then I sent a few of the good-lookin work-study positions an email and it turns out that they weren't work study at all. One was a tech position at the campus Department of Public Safety and another a tech position at the Law School. And can you believe it, they fought over me! Finally, the Law school came up with the best offer- $10 and hour for full-time summer work. So I said hell, I'll do it. And today I packed up the computers from my department and prepared to say bye to micro for the summer. The boss-man is also cool because he appreciates the college mentality. He knows that people leave during the summer and guarantees them their job back. He also understands that $$ is an incentive so he had no problem with me looking elsewhere.

Today, however, I was at the end of the year staff pizza party (another reason Micro is cool, for the staff LAN and pizza parties) and he informed me that I could, indeed, work for him full time this summer. This so r0xx0rs... mostly cause it means I don't have to go learn the ropes somewhere else, meet and get accustomed to a whole new herd of geeks, and worry about impressing a new boss. I like where I am. I like the people, I like the job, I know I can do it. Everyone has a great sense of humor, which is a real qualification in my book.

Anyway, more reasons my boss is great: he seems to honestly understand college students (that, or he just thinks like one ; ). We work for him but he works WITH us. He doesn't get offended if we ask questions and he makes completely reasonable concessions if one of his employees needs a day (or week) off. I can honestly say that in all the (odd and plentiful) jobs I've worked, I haven't been under better management and I don't take that for granted. I really owe you guys! I'm glad that I'll be able to keep working there this summer... even if it means lugging my crap back over to Fenton and up the stairs. x-D ugh.

Just please don't ever fire me for being a superfreak! ; )