It appears it has been an extremely long time since I have posted anything. At least to this blog. And to say a lot of stuff has happened would be putting it mildly and probably obvious since it's been like eight months or whatever.

At that place I work, or should I say "still work"(tm), there are "green badges" and there are "blue badges". This place that I work at has kind of a reputation for creating a sub-culture or "caste system" between the badge levels. The greens are the "temps" or "contractors" whilst the blues, or Smurfs if you will, are permanent and have access to things like the gym, the basketball courts, the volleyball courts and get paid even on excursions to fun places out side of work.

There's probably disadvantages to being a Smurf. I think they're salaried for instances so they have to work all hours, from home, whatever.

I haven't really run into the rumored caste system while I have been at this place that I work. Maybe a little recently. That may be imaginary though.

For instance I'm sitting in a lab trying to monitor machines that are offline and bring them into an "online" state appropriate. So when an issue has come up that is being investigated by engineers et. al. you'd think the local Smurf would do something really crazy like let me (the guy looking at the machines 40 hours a week) know about it and how to react if I encounter it. Just a thought. Obviously I'm only a green so what do I know. I'm not a Smurf. Not that I'm bitter.

My last day at this place that I work is something like August 5th. I haven't really made that much effort to look into becoming a Smurf. It appears I don't have access to the part of the internal web site that lists internal Smurf jobs. Or I'm looking in the wrong place. Of course, I'm not that sure I actually WANT to be a Smurf all that badly.