Last night when I got home I had some awesome sundried tomato and chicken pasta for dinner. After that, I went upstairs with John, Tyler and the other guys and watched V for Vendetta. Afterwards we chilled out and shared a nice cigar that we had all pitched in on out on the porch while we enjoyed the view from the 15th floor. Steve left early to go have his phone interview with Pratt and Whitney. I got back to my room around 12:30am and asked Steve about his interview. He said this year all the internships are being hired by the seperate departments and the one he talked to was apparently one of the first to start contacting people. The guy he talked to said he started early because he wanted his choice of the best applicants. This was really encouraging for me because it means I still have time to be contacted. Also, Steve's resume is nearly identical to mine. His GPA is .04 higher and he does swimming; those are about the only advantages he has on me. So I figure someone will at least consider me for an interview. Well I'm holding out, hopefully something will come along. I do not want to work at Indian Rock again. Anyways, after talking to Steve I went to bed.
This morning I woke and went in to work. Back to the 9am-5pm schedule. In the morning I closed the online survey and worked with the Firefly and Brigades Online people to deactivate links and archive the articles. I updated the online survey spreadsheet for the last time, made a summary using surveymonkey, and exported it to PDF for easy printing. I also used the random number generator to draw the name for the 100$ gift certificate to the CFA Shop, very exciting. I went to lunch after that and had some sort of chicken with capers and scalloped potatoes which was really good. I spent the rest of the day working on the phone survey because I had noticed that the totals were wrong and when I compared what we had on surveymonkey and the spreadsheet I found that we were missing 11 data points. So I made a pivot chart to figure out what demographics they were missing from and to my shock I found that almost 40 data points were either missing or misplaced from their proper demographics. I pretty much totally blame the temps because John typed in caps and Allison put zeros before single digit numbers. It was pretty simple to see who screwed up and they made the large majority of the mistakes. It took me forever to figure out which data points when where. I had to use all the demographics to figure out which one was wrong and had placed the data point in the wrong place. I was able to sort it out in about 5 hours and I was left with the original 11 data points that were just outright missing. I replaced them with new candidates using my random selection process and then headed home at 6pm. Once again the temps wasted my time and I spent another half a day fixing the mistake. I'm not very happy about it. I need to go play some basketball or something and blow off some steam tonight. I'm also going to be calling Pratt tonight, hopefully someone answers this time.
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sorry about the last comment i fell asleep.....from reading your post.
get it?
casey seriously if nothing interesting happens then just make up a story, at least we'll be entertained
i agree with steve there casey. sure work is boring, but you're in a completely new country with so much to see. you can go hit the club anywhere, so instead of getting held up in melbourne go out and see the country! go catch a tazmanian devil!
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