This year's Bike To Work Day wouldn't've been the same without her.
This year's Bike To Work Day wouldn't've been the same without her.
Grab your helmet, check the air in your tires, and hop on your bike because in many U.S. cities, May 12 - 16 is Bike to Work Week! Six Apart has a lot of biking enthusiasts, so we're very excited to support this event by encouraging all of our employees to bike to work this week. San Francisco's Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, Thursday, May 15th, and New York's is Friday, May 16th.
Six Apart is helping out its employees by providing maps (shaded according to steepness - a must in SF!) to help everyone plan out his/her route, as well as finding first-time riders buddies to commute with. We're also supporting ALL SF riders who pass the front of our office by handing out coffee, juice and snacks from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. If you're in our neighborhood, look for the sign that says "Six Apart Supports Bike to Work Day" and stop by to say hi and get energized!
Improve your health, financial status, productivity, and happiness by joining thousands - maybe even millions - of commuters around the country who are hopping on their bikes to get to work. Visit the Bike to Work Week website to find out more about events in your area.
Support the two-wheeled way of life with the "Passing Left" theme found in "Photo-Based" in the Design Area. Planning on cycling to work this week? Let us know in the comments!
As we mentioned last week, we had to postpone the maintenance that was due to occur on Thursday, May 8th.
We have rescheduled the maintenance for tonight, Tuesday, May 13th, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT). We'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Again, thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!
]]>Tonight, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT), we'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!
Update: we've postponed tonight's maintenance, and will let you know when we reschedule. Thanks for your patience!
]]>So the boss expressed some concerns about my comprehension, but I think he only said it because he had to say something for the trial period review. If it were a real issue he would have either extended my trial period another month or just fired me then and there. Now, as a full-time employee, if the company does drop me, they'll have a few months salary to pay me. I am hitting quota almost everyday with some very minor issues. These are not minor to the boss who wants me to be self-sufficient. My impression was that I would have six months to get their system down and gain autonomy. Plus the database is crap and the IT team is creating a new one that should be functional this Summer, or so they say. After one month I am hitting and surpassing the daily quota. Yes, misspelling company names is bad, and, yes, the article itself misspelled the name and I should have caught that, BUT it was my 30th article of the day. I am of the opinion, as is the rest of the production gang, that a full time proof-reader should be hired to catch mistakes like spelling Marriott with one t. It would be a difficult job because the volume would be intense, but production would probably increase and we'd be able to slay the backlog. A part of me almost wants to volunteer.
There are moments when I have to tell myself that I am not in this company in the capacity of manager. I just need to come in, do as much as I can and call it good.
The limits of job satisfaction are beginning to manifest themselves. It's not just money. There will be raises in the future. It's not the work itself, which is really interesting most days (except for quarter and annual reports). It's the knowledge that I was brought on as an analyst to help this company become more efficient and there are management and structural issues and attitudes that need to change or absolutely nothing else will.
Thank goodness for the other employees there who are wonderful and made me feel welcome from the start. Still in the game, but keeping options open. It's a good enough gig for now.
Last week, we announced the winners of the HP "What Do You Have to Say? Theme Design Contest and promised you we'd make the winning themes available on Vox in the coming weeks. After a little more thought, we decided you shouldn't have to wait a second longer to use these creative and inspiring designs on your blogs, so we made them available for you today. Who says good things only come to those who wait?