May 242013
 

The Boss is freaking out about money. I can understand why; he’s sunk a lot of money into New Company, and he also has a fairly expensive hobby (buying and restoring old cars).

He has assigned me a top-priority project to get our customers to pay more quickly. And there are things I can do in that vein; I’ve been signing us up to receive payments by electronic bank transfer with anyone who offers it, and I’m working on getting us set up to accept payments via Web so I can e-mail invoices and have customers (hopefully) just click a link and pay.

But what Boss wants is to get them to pay within five days of receiving the invoice, ten at most. And I just don’t think that’s going to be terribly feasible. Companies pay their bills according to their own cash flow and payment processing schedule, and it usually takes a couple of weeks at least. I’m sure we can get a little better turnaround for some of the big customers that take over a month to pay us, but I’m skeptical of our ability to get it down to less than a week.

Still, we’ll see how it goes.

In other news, I applied for a job last night. I’m not actively looking for a job, but one cropped up in my LinkedIn feed that’s essentially the same job I’m doing now, with a comparable rate of pay but excellent benefits. I would really, really like to have health benefits.

I doubt I’ll hear from them—I didn’t spend any time customizing my resume with keywords specific to the particular job, I just made sure the info was up-to-date and sent it off. But it’s about time to get back into practice with job-hunting. I’ve been working here for a couple of years now, which is enough experience that I can reasonably start looking for something with more room to grow.

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I Know That Feel

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May 032013
 

Last week Alpha Geek was sitting next to the cat and entertaining himself playing with her tail.

“Cat,” I declared, “you’re sending mixed signals.”

“How do you mean?” asked Alpha Geek.

“She’s thrashing her tail like she’s irritated, but she’s giving you a very loving look.”

“I imagine you can relate to that,” he pointed out.

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Blowing Up Zombies

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Apr 262013
 

The Director was watching me fart around in Zombie Lane just now. I made the little avatar perform some tricks and showed him some of the toys I had in inventory.

“Land mines?” he asked.

“I’ve never actually used them. I wonder what they do,” I said.

“Blow up zombies and disappear,” was his educated guess.

I plucked one up with the mouse and put it in front of a zombie. We watched her shamble around it a bit, then—

“BLOOIE!” I exclaimed.

“No, no, no,” corrected the Director. “It’s: SPUDOW!

He’s absolutely right.

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