Company may be sending me over to Haiti

Well my boss asked me if I wanted to go to Haiti. I was a little surprised, I knew we were going to be sending some engineers down to survey the damage and figure out what had to be demoed. Looks like I may be heading down to provide IT support to our personnel. There are some nice benefits to the whole thing, being brought on as full employee (I am contract), 60% uplift for the three months I will be there, and of course benefits.

I have to decide in the next few days, and my wife thinks this could be very beneficial for us.

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JDMurray

dynamik wrote: »

You make that sound like a privilege

Well, R&R will be in places like Jamaica, San Juan, The Bahamas, West Palm Beach and Miami Beach.

veritas_libertas

Yikes, everything was turned upside down today. My boss informed me that we have been told not to send anyone to Haiti. Seems that the 82nd Airborne may have taken our job away.

On a positive note I got my job offer letter in writing, err adobe writing today. I immediately started filling out my paperwork and e-mail it back to them. I should officially start as a permanent employee next week

Hyper-Me

Well atleast you still scored the full-time employee position.

veritas_libertas

Hyper-Me wrote: »

Well atleast you still scored the full-time employee position.

Yes, zero complaints about that. My Wife and I are very happy for the financial boost!

impelse

Congrats

unsupported

Congrats about the permenant position. You deserve it! sorry to hear you won't be going to Haiti. Poo-poo on the 82nd Airborne. How dare they take jobs away from hard working Geeks?!

veritas_libertas

Well, it's finalized and I won't be going to Haiti. Now I need to call WGU and get started on finishing this Bachelor degree

On to finishing the A+ before WGU starts so I can save a little bit of money

hustlin_moe20

unsupported wrote: »

Congrats about the permenant position. You deserve it! sorry to hear you won't be going to Haiti. Poo-poo on the 82nd Airborne. How dare they take jobs away from hard working Geeks?!

I currently work as a contractor in Afghan with the HHC 82nd Airborne DSTB. I fought the war in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment in 2003, 2004, 2006. I was actually an Artillerymen in the U.S. Army until I got out in 2006 AFTER being wounded in my 3rd tour with the 82nd. I bet most of the "Hard Working Geeks" on here couldn't stand up to Airborne troops. They don't want to be in Haiti anymore than the next man, trust me. They'd much rather be jumping out of C-130s and drinking in Fayetteville on the weekends. Go Airborne. All American, that's the 82nd. They work harder than anyone on a computer, and get paid pennies to protect the nation. Hoooah!

veritas_libertas

I love the military, but the one thing they seem to often miss is obvious humor

Dude, he was joking! On that thought, trust me I wouldn't want to go down there unless I had the military with me. That place is a complete mess.