ravencallscrows | *Sigh* Is it Wednesday Yet?

I know, i know. It's only Monday. I still have all of tomorrow and the work day on Wednesday until it's coffee night- or in some of our cases, chai night. It's been a damn weird day, too- i've had absolutely no personal e-mail, not even list traffic today other than two things i sent myself to verify that my mail server hadn't crashed and a receipt for payment for a shareware application i bought this afternoon.

I'm not upset about work anymore. I'm just resigned to it. I sent mail to HR today to set up a meeting with my HR generalist about my situation, and i feel better having done so. I hope it continues after the meeting.
I spent all of today working on pointless reports. Until a project is in advancing stages of lockdown before releasing to manufacturing, it simply doesn't make sense to track changes in files and installer packages on a build by build basis- there are just too damn many of them- ranging from over five hundred for one of the Office suites down to a hundred and fifty or so for each standalone application. There are several thousand changes in the installer packages.
But, because it's scut work which i've been assigned, i do it and publish the results which no one will look at, because any sensible individual realizes that there's just too damn much to sift through. It's especially frustrating considering that i've been trying to get permission to leave my department since review time last year. Release for English is eleven months away still assuming the schedule doesn't slip again, with Arabic following in two weeks, Hebrew in two more, Thai four later and Hindi four weeks after that. So essentially, unless i manage to get out, i'm stuck for another year, which is intolerable.
The job market in the tech sector blows chunks presently. The seattle.jobs.offerred newsgroup used to have hundreds to thousands of new postings from recruiters every day, now there are hardly any, and most of the few things which are posted there are network marketing bullshit schemes.
So i'm taking things one day at a time. I've sent off a resume to a recruiter i know who staffs positions at MS, giving him very specific parameters. I also get one to three notifications from outside companies a week, all for testers, but none of which are positions for testers with experience- i could make more money going back to doing phone support for various software products, and anyone who's done that knows the pay-range there.
Damnit, money spoils everything. Well, actually, it's more the comforts one gets accustomed to in a certain income range. I remember when a fifteen dollar an hour job was damn good money. Now i'm looking at figuring how much of a pay cut i could afford to take, and finding that much less than ten dollars an hour more than that is simply not going to be a viable option.
Traffic keeps getting worse, too. 520 getting onto 405 northbound backed up before the end of the carpool lane- over a half a mile. I ended up deciding to skip that mess (since i couldn't legally get in the exit lane) and just go across the lake and try relaxing along the way. So i went across the bridge, got off at Montlake and went up 25th to 75th and got on the freeway there. Made reasonable time, and was relatively unstressed until Everett. I'm so not going to miss the commute after we move.

I know what'd make me feel better. Eight to forty-eight hours in a cuddle pile with some carefully selected folk would do wonders. Ah, the power of cuddles.