Miraba's Journal: Job @ 5.5 months

Last week I talked to my boss about my worries about health insurance, etc and found out that the company hasn't been earmarked enough money to hire anyone new (except for those positions that they feel are much more important than mine, which is pretty much everything), and so I won't get a full-time position unless they get a new investor.

Given that my boss said that he would try to get me hired full time, this has made me rather pissed. Given that I'm inelligible for benefits unless I'm rehired with a new contract, I can look forward to paying out of pocket for health insurance for a while longer.

It's time to hit the job sites. I'm sick of being taken advantage of.

I hear ya

[smooth wombat]

I work for the Commonwealth (PA) in the IT field. The department I worked for was a great place. Everyone in my office got along with one another, we joked around (not too much), solved the worlds problems by having discussions about politics and business and pitched in when needed. In other words, the perfect place to work.

Unfortunately (you knew that was coming, didn't you?) the CIO of OIT (Office of Information Techology) had an unwritten policy that you could not move up in position directly. If you w