Thursday, July 17, 2008

My cohort asked our boss about the promotion. He said there’s a slight delay because the Chief wants to interview the candidates.

*sigh*

I asked how many made the cert list - 4. This means me, Amazing One, Useless One, and my cohort. I know that my cohort scored an 84. I scored a 92. I have no clue what the others scored.

Useless One is out of the office until next week and the Chief wants to interview when we’re all here. So the earliest we could do that is next week. Otherwise it will be after I get back from vacation - early August.

*sigh*

So I can’t get the super mp3 player for our trip either. Instead I’ll buy a cheaper replacement mp3 player for Beau’s busted one. This puts the super player back on the Christmas wish list, by the way.

I’m not feeling as confident about it now, which completely sux.

Oh, and I asked my boss this - there’s a huge budgeting portion in the listed duties for the promotion. If I don’t get it, how does that affect my job? Some of my budget monitoring duties switch to that person. I’ll be interested to see how that works, especially since two people have jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with budgeting. But they made the cert list so their resumes must have had enough of the key words to pass muster with HR.

*new wrinkle*

Boss just came in and mentioned the eventual retirement of Disgruntled One. Now, I really have no interest in that job so I haven’t paid too much attention to what she does. I only have peripheral working with her group. But the boss mentioned that Amazing One has been working with Disgruntled One to learn that side of things. Very interesting.