I get to re-train

With the used system exchange process up and running smoothly, and with me running myself out of work pretty regularly at it, I’ve started feeling bored at the Empire—and when I start to feel bored is when I start to get dangerous, both to myself and to others.  (It took me getting fired once to learn this lesson properly.)  Knowing this, I’ve been going to both my managers and saying “hey, I want something new to learn to do” and fortunately they had something.  One of the team leads is over head and ears in work, and really needs help with doing quality audits and reporting, and hello, here’s Sam who wants to get into analysis and reporting for his next career move!  Isn’t that nice?

So today the team lead sat down and gave me an overview of one of his monthly audits that he needs help with.  The audits themselves are nothing hard for anyone who can answer yes/no/NA questions and can count to one hundred, and I figure the charts they want are something you do in Excel, so I’ll get practice at that too.  The team lead said he would set up a training session next week when I can see some actual work and start to try everything out.

Later on there may be a chance for me to learn something about another program we do for the federal government, but it has to do with classified information and “. . . and then I’d have to kill you,” so I won’t say any more about it until I know more.