http://www.cbulock.com/cat/work.html Employment and it's adventures http://www.cbulock.com/cameron.jpg http://www.cbulock.com/cat/work.html 87 95 Copyright 2003-2008 en-us cbulock@cbulock.com 2007-11-07T09:19:51-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2007/11/corecomm_call_center_closing.html So, the Corecomm call center is finally coming to a close. This is one of those things for anyone who worked there have been a long running joke of when, not if, this was going to happen. I had mentioned this a bit back when LocalNet purchased Corecomm. Back then it seemed like this was going to happen much sooner. I'm not really certain why this took so long actually. Anyways, I'm super happy I have a new job now, though I do worry about all my friends still stuck back at the Core. 552@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2007-11-07T09:19:51-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2007/08/goodbye_corecomm.html Today I have put in my two week notice to quit Corecomm. It's been three and a half years working here and I am so glad I can finally leave. The last six months, this company has gone to shit. They let all the engineers go that knew how the systems work, and theres a couple people left that don't really seem to have a clue. Major systems have been down for months. It's really bad. Lot's of customers jumping ship, I don't see the company lasting much longer. 541@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2007-08-15T17:52:55-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/05/a_little_exaggerated.html Just saw this ad in my GMail. I've used the Express software at work, it does do wonders on a dialup, but to call it DSL is just lying to people. I guess if it brings in customers and keeps my job, I can't complain too much. But, I'm the guy they bitch at when they switched from DSL to dialup and are greatly disappointed. 455@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-05-30T11:58:15-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/02/got_a_call_from_a_superhero.html So, I'm at work, and guess what shows up on my caller ID. "Superhero". It actually was the first part of their business name, but I thought it was funny to see just plain Superhero as the name on the caller ID. Obviously I am really bored right now and easily amazed. 412@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-02-08T15:53:25-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/12/localnet_aquires_corecomm.html It seems this is now public info, but the company I work for, Corecomm, was acquired by another ISP LocalNet. LocalNet acquisition will add new jobs here 390@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-12-14T16:24:53-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/03/brain_teaser.html So, last night at work was really slow, so my boss took me off the phones so I could do some "WebU's". These are online training courses we have. I have already taken all the actual educational ones and all the ones that are required for every possible promotion. So, now I am stuck doing things like "Word 2000 basics" and "Time Management". One I was taking last night was "Self Development - Balancing Your Personal and Professional Life". basically, you just keep clicking through screen after screen until you get to some tests that are fairly simple, it doesn't require you to actually read the previous 40 pages. Except, I came across the following question: 300@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-03-14T10:40:15-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/01/paranoid_businesses.html One thing to note about this site. I likely won't be posting anything about my job that would in anyway risk me losing it. It seems Corecomm is paranoid and does a number of searches on themselves using Google. I have seen a number of hits in my referrer logs from the IP of the East Lansing office where I work at with the return page being a search for 'corecomm'. So, all the pages on this site mentioning Corecomm seem to get a number of hits from someone at my work. So, unless my employment status changes, I will likely be very discrete on any job related postings. 283@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-01-30T18:48:21-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2004/06/about_to_fall_asleep_on_the_job.html It's been such a slow day at work today. I am basiclly posting to keep myself busy and to prevent falling asleep. I have been on the phone only 45% of the night, meaning that over four hours of my shift I have been doing absolutly nothing. And please ignore my spelling errors. I am not at home with my constantly running spell check in the background, or using my Opera broswer with built-in spell check, or even posting via w.bloggar with it's spell check. 159@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2004-06-06T22:57:58-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2004/03/resume_added.html I just added a resume to the side of this page now. Anyone wanting to hire my can now easily access this information and quickly hire me for a high paying job. ;) I also finally got around to updating the family pics section of this page. Those links can be found on the side here under the section 'My Own Pages'. 125@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2004-03-19T14:01:34-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2004/03/starting_to_get_a_handle_on_this_new_job.html Today at work I took about 20 calls or so. (I think that is what the computer said). I am feeling pretty comfortable giving people help. I think I might actually be starting to sound like I know what I am talking about because by the end of the calls I took, people seemed to be genuinely satisfied with my help. At first they just kind of seemed like, "Yea, whatever, thanks I guess." I could have taken more calls, but I had to do some training on telephone repair support and then just went over some other basic training stuff with my trainer Ruben. 118@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2004-03-04T22:47:43-05:00