New Cell Phone!

I just bought myself a new Nextel phone! Wanna see it? Look here! I haven't gotten it yet, but when I do, there is an excellent chance that my cell phone number will change. If anyone wants the new one let me know and I will forward it to you when I get it.

Adventure #2 Almost Over

Well, I am pleased to say that I got to the airport almost 3 hours before the plane was scheduled to depart on Sunday. No more missed flights for me.

On Monday, it was back to work as usual, training, training...sooooooooo glad that the woman I'm training with is so wonderful, and that we get along really well.

Today - decided to come in early (7am) to get a head-start on today's work; had an illuminating meeting about adjustments - although nothing much was really accomplished (not surprised).

Tonight I think it's out to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner, and I only have 5 episodes of the first season of 24 left, so I might finish that by the time I get back home tomorrow.

People have started to discover I'm answering my personal email from Kansas, and have started sending agent code stuff to that instead of the Agent Code mailbox, which is slightly irritating, but I can't say I blame them as it's now been over a week since any codes have been processed. I just realized that this entire sentence probably reads like Greek to everyone else...another case of TMI.

To end on a random note: I'm soooooo glad there's a Starbucks in the lobby of my hotel...

Adventures in KC

In summary:

Monday - missed our flight out in the morning. No, I'm not kidding. Apparently everyone in DC is an absolute moron and they decided to fly out on Monday morning for Spring Break, completely wasting the two days they COULD have added to their vacation by flying out on Saturday. But no, let's ALL fly out on Monday morning and ruin Danni's first day as a Sprint employee. But we eventually made it to KC around 6:30pm - now we're famous on the Sprint campus as "the ones who missed their flight." NOT an auspicious start to the week.

Tuesday - Training, training, training; while being the middleman between my two coworkers who do NOT get along well.

Wednesday - More training - and the revelation that I am going to be THE go-to person for everything RadioShack. I should have held out for a bigger salary... Learned that my boss may change in a few weeks.

Thursday - More training - tempers between the two coworkers continue to rise...

Friday - Heart-to-heart with the woman who is training me, learned a lot of the background and what's REALLY going on behind the scenes. Leave early to catch our flight home; end up getting to the airport in KC around 3pm, the plane is late coming in from Chicago, so we don't end up leaving until 6:30. A couple hours later, I start to think that the flight is taking longer than I thought it would...about that time there's an announcement that we're about to land in Louisville, Kentucky.

WTF?!?!?!?!!!!??????????

Turns out we had been circling Dulles for at least half an hour because of bad weather, and thus ran out of fuel and supposedly Kentucky was the closest airport we could refuel at.

For those of you who live in DC, join me in saying, "WHAT???"

A) DC...Kentucky...not so close.
B) It wasn't even raining.

The pilot must have been on crack. Or the people in the tower. Or both. So we refuel in Kentucky and fly back to DC. I swear I thought I was going to die. It was the most turbulent, terrifying flight I have ever been on in my life. The kind where you start thinking about the fact that your little brother will inherit your XBox, mom and dad will inherit another cat, they'll make a lot of money by selling my condo, will anyone show up for my funeral? Was almost going to kiss the floor of the airport terminal when we finally landed, and wanted to vow never to fly again, but then realized I have to fly back out in a day and a half. Then I got to learn how to catch the shuttle bus to the parking lots to get to my car, ended up wandering around the parking lot at midnight looking for my car and made it out with less than 10 minutes to spare (when you pay for your parking in the terminal, it gives you an hour to leave; otherwise, you rack up more charges). Got home around a quarter to 1am. Collapsed.

Saturday - woke up late (thankfully) and watched 4 episodes of 24, before biting the bullet and going into the office around 5pm. Left at 10:30pm. Watched a few more episodes of 24. Started to get depressed about having to fly back out tomorrow. Decided to check my mail and update my blog.

Stay tuned for the next episode of "Danni's Adventures in Kansas City!"

Field Trip!

So I thought I'd just post a quick update before I leave in case anyone wants to know; I will be traveling with two of my coworkers to Kansas City, this week AND next so we don't have to worry about me going alone. Unfortunately, the rental car has been put in one of said coworkers names instead of mine, so transportation freedom will be limited.

The fam out in KS wants to me to go visit them at some point, which could be interesting considering everyone I'm with is 'east-coast' or in Pam's case 'west-coast,' with no experience with actual farms. Of course, I don't have any experience with real farms either, but that's beside the point! ;-)

I managed to steal my little bro's portable DVD player, and went out and bought the latest Star Wars trilogy and the first season of 24 (which I've never seen) to keep me occupied.

And in other random news, I learned that Meegs was probably less than 100 yards away from John Cusack yesterday at the Cubs game and regardless of the fact I don't think she ever actually saw him, I am so incredibly JEALOUS I may never get over it, even though I'm not even really obsessed with him anymore. It's the principle of the thing...

HIRED!

At last, it's official - the offer letter delivered, signed and accepted. Yeah, I work for the 59th largest company in the United States!

It Ain't the Caribbean

But it's official - I'm off next week to Kansas City. Reminds me of Wayne's World when they're in....Delaware....

The better news is I'm not going alone. And the rental car is in my name. AND I don't miss any of my weekend - we're flying out Monday morning, coming home Friday afternoon.

So all in all, things worked out pretty well - on my way to becoming indispensable.

And in other random news, I taught myself how to crochet last weekend during an Indiana Jones marathon!

Movin' Up

Well the good news is that apparently my little escapade last week didn't affect my standing in the company; as a matter of fact, Mel just came in this morning and said, "I'm working with HR and hopefully I'll have an offer letter to you in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, how would you feel about going to Kansas City for the next 3 weeks?"

Holy CRAP!

And I have to admit that the first panic-stricken thought that went through my head (after who would take care of baby cat while I'm gone and how upset he's going to be that I'm leaving AGAIN) was that I've never gone ANYWHERE involving a plane by myself and I'm petrified that I'm going to be completely lost and not know what the hell I'm doing. Guess there's no time like the present to learn, though. I mean, how hard can it really be - you get lost in an airport, you just ask someone where to go and eventually you'll find your way out. And it's not like it's Chicago or LA or New York or Miami - it's friggin Kansas City - the airport has to be on par with the size of Dulles, if not smaller, right?

And she's talking about expense accounts, and the fact I can't have some sort of card because I'm not a permanent employee, and seeing if they can get me a laptop to take with me, and oh by the way - we really want you to take over Radio Shack permanently, and will hopefully get agent codes away from you permanently.

Holy Crap AGAIN!

Is it a good sign or bad sign that instead of worrying that I'm not able to do the job itself, I'm more worried about flying on a plane, the logistics of rental cars, and having to figure out how to get from the hotel to the Sprint campus...

Sorta freakin' out right now.