another update!?

Wow, bad weather in the old home town last night. Looked like a freakin hurricane went thru. Current speculation is that a mini tornado went right thru the oil center and that area, ripping down trees, power lines, roofs etc. My parents lost power for most of the day. Everybody is okay and that's the good news.

Rough day at work yesterday. Our good friends at ICE raided one of the job sites and busted 25 people. I have no problem with this, but the media frenzy surrounding it and some of the idiot commentary accompanying it irritates me. To be clear, I am personally against illegal immigration and also against all of the current amnesty programs floating around out there. That being said, I fail to see how it is the General Contractors responsibility that everyone on the job is legal. Only one of our employees was pulled in, and our paperwork for him indicates he is in fact legal. All of the others worked for subcontractos, and therein lies my irritation. We (as a company) have no control over the subs or their hiring practices. We have written into the subcontracts that they subs must follow the required hiring practices to prove that each employee is legal to work in the U.S.
Anyway, it just bugs me that we could be held responsible for something that we have no control over.
On a positive work note, I have approval to run with the salesforce.com project. Finally, just when I'd given up hope that a decision could be made in this company. I've called our contact at SF.com and I'm waiting on pricing. We'll revisit this issue later.


No update on my Jeep project. He called me, then I called him and I'm back in a waiting pattern. Hopefully, numb nuts checks his voice mail this weekend and picks up the phone. We'll see and I'll certainly update if he does. Hell, I may even post a picture if I can figure out how.


LSU baseball is going insane! Winners of 14 straight and pushing for #1 in the SEC West. We win one more, or Bama loses one and we're in. Won at Auburn last night and playing tonight and again tomorrow.
Perrilloux update: signed with Jacksonville State. Contrary to what it sounds, the school is in Alabama not Florida.


Last but certainly not least....I was screwing off the other night surfing the net and decided to visit the hometown paper for a sports update. After that, I said "WTF" and hit on the classifieds just to see what was percolating. Lo and behold, up pops a CFO job that pays about what I make now (if not a wee bit more) and it's only a couple of weeks old. After some soul searching, I talked with my hunny bunny and then decided to visit with the recruiter. After a 5 minute call with her, I sent my resume in this morning. Obviously, no word yet, but this is going to be interested. My original (longer term) plan was to stay here for another 2-5 years and then work to get more into the Gulf South, a little closer to home. I have no idea what I will tell the senior people here if this happens. I'm going to have to think about that......

Peace