I've started.

As most of you no doubt know, I've started working fulltime now.

Just for the record, I really like it at the moment. The work is interesting (even though I keep saying I don't do anything), and the people are quite helpful most of the time. I feel I'm starting to make a difference in the hodgepodge of systems that we call our IT landscape in the organisation.

I'm supposedly going to be on rotation. So at the start of May I'll be moving to a different department. Its going to be more people orientated so I'll talk to a bunch of people who won't really give a rats arse about me, but just want stuff done. Its a bit of a cynical way of looking at a role which requires customer service, but I try not to hold any illusions about it.

Anyway, I'll be back in IT about 2 days a week which will give me plenty of time to catch up and hopefully Fridays as well, where no work actually ever gets done.

However, one thing is that I've been stonewalled by a couple of people. They're in IT, just not really in the same department. You might just say they have a different boss and just leave it at that. Its not the most pleasant experience. You want to do something, like fix a problem, make things a bit more efficient, but you need someone to be willing to do something for you. What makes it worse is that the people so described can leave it and it'll fix itself eventually. That is, when the big huge upgrade comes along and we can do it ourselves.

Problem is, as with all IT projects, nobody actually knows when thats going to happen until about a month before it does. Just goes to say that it isn't going to happen in a month.