Well, I did it. I took the QA job. There's paperwork that has yet to be done, but I'm moving my office today. (I could, technically, do the job perfectly well from my current desk. But at least for the next few months, I'm going to be working very closely with the current QA guy, and I think that will be much easier if I don't have to walk the entire distance of the building every time I want to talk to him.)

This is more than an assistant position. The current QA guy has another job that took up all his time before he took on the QA thing. The idea here, he told me yesterday, is for him to bring me up to speed, and then start turning everything over to me, as I can handle it.

(Though I have to say, if they're going to make me the QA for the office, I'd better be given a promotion and a raise. I understand it not happening now, while I'm still so wet behind the ears that I squeak - but in a year, or whenever it happens that I'm doing the bulk of the work... Yeah, that's a much bigger job and a much bigger responsibility, and I think it should come with a bigger paycheck.)

So yesterday, I was assigned about four hundred pages' worth of documentation to read. And I went to a meeting for one of the myriad of QA activities, and that one, at least, sounds kind of interesting.

And my supervisor, MM, turned out to be a pretty good guy. I haven't spoken with him much before, and he's a bit taciturn, so I wasn't sure. But he's got a sense of humor and he understands that I've got a pretty steep learning curve right now.

So we'll see how this goes. But who knows? It may turn out to be something I really enjoy.

But today, whenever MM and the IS person show up with keys to the new office (the filing cabinets in the new office hold some company-confidential documents, so I get an office with a lock on the door, but I don't have the key yet) then I'll be moving.

You know... When you sit at one desk for two years, you accumulate a lot of crap. Hoo-boy...

--Liz