I got a call last Wednesday from the guys at TelstraClear saying that they wanted to bring me in again to speak to another Service Desk Team Leader about a position on their team (instead of the two teams I applied for). I said I would love to, and the next morning there I was having a cup of coffee with two people from TelstraClear (TCL for short). I met with them for a little over an hour, talking about my experience in IT, my life back home, why I was in New Zealand, and a lot of random stuff about the USA and New Zealand, etc. The meeting wasn't really an interview, they had received "glowing" references from Jeff and John (thanks guys!) and had the results from my previous interview at TCL a week earlier, and mainly just wanted to meet me and see what kind of guy I am. Suffice to say I passed with flying colors, and got an email on Monday (not a Holiday like I thought) saying they wanted to offer me the position as soon as they put the paperwork thru. I had to fill out an official application form and copy my passport / visa and drop it off at TCL before they could put all the paperwork in. Since it was a monday, and since I'm unemployed, I hadn't shaved since the Wednesday before. Let's just say I looked rather homeless and was hoping with all hopes that when Craig (the manager) said "drop it off at reception" there would be NOBODY around (except of course the receptionist). I got off the elevator on floor 13 at TCL, walked up to the receptionist, dropped of the papers, turned around....
And played the waiting game. It was 4:58pm and everyone who works normal hours was trying to leave the building. About five minutes later the elevator FINALLY came, and the doors started to open. I breathed a breath of relief as the elevator was my escape - I could leave and nobody would have to see how pathetically homeless my five-day-beard looked. And off the elevator steps Craig - my possibly future boss. Oh well. I'm sure he didn't care, he was very happy I dropped everything off and was going to put the paperwork in, so I don't think my scrubby looks lost me the job I have yet to get (yet). The paperwork takes a week or two to go thru, so we set a tentative start date (pending final offer, acceptance, etc.) of Nov. 10th 2008.
The two guys I met with and if things go well would be working with were very cool guys. They wanted to make sure I was think-skinned as the other guys in the department joke around a lot and would be making fun of my Americanism from day one. I responded to this by saying my former-lunch-bunch and I could go days only quoting Arrested Development, Always Sunny, the Office, and Scrubs, and that every other sentence out of our (read: my) mouths is "That's what she said." They found that to be a good thing (yeah, wtf were they thinking), so that could be disasterously wonderful.
The other news out of New Zealand is Amy has yet another job. This time at a brand new, never before opened, bar - as the Head Bartender. Yeah. Amy, with her two-weeks of Bar / Wine Store experience got a job as the Head Bartender at a new bar. I suppose less-experienced people have been in more important positions (Sarah Palin), but still shocking none the less. I have no doubt she'll do great, as her drinking experience outweighs Palin's entire political experience, and she's a people-person so she'll do great with all the customers. That's actually why they hired her, she did really well in the interview and they told her that she seemed like a people-person and had a lot of people-skills and that was what they were looking for. Right now she's going to be working both jobs until she decides which is the best and until I get a job, but I imagine in the next month or so she might cut it down to only one.
Anyways, we're all doing well here. I have more pictures of the gardens and such on facebook - LINK
Hope everyone is doing well elsewhere!
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