Vacation Inebriation

So this is a rare edition. I’ll go ahead an apologize if things lack a sensable structure. I’m on vacation and I’ve been drinking.

As I alluded in my last edition, things are changing for The Trixter. Initially it was assumed that I would be changing shifts, departments, and job titles to a bizarre three-day weekend shift. That may actually still be the assumption on management’s side since I have to tell them that I will be leaving. Instead of moving from one end of the Cube Jungle to another, I’m changing Jungle’s completely. It became official yesterday that I will be leaving my current employer and moving to a new arboreal geek preserve starting June 9^th.

Here’s what will be changing. Instead of working in the automotive manufacturing industry (which, by the way, is where I was working) I will now be working in a hospital. Instead of answering the phones for 8 solid hours and answering inane, irreverent, and irrelevant questions I will be working on pre-screened trouble issues on site. Instead of getting paid far too much for the job I was performing, I will be getting paid marginally above average for a much higher-end job function. Instead of helping self-important Germans I will be helping self-important doctors. Instead of working with a cast of absolutely cartoonish and almost unbelievable characters I will be working with a bunch of people that may be exactly the same as previously mentioned group, but I’m hoping it also includes hot, single nurses.

Here’s what will be staying the same. In a bizarre cliff-hanger twist, The Sith Lord will actually be coming over with me. At my recommendation he put in for one of several positions that my new employer had posted and was hired on at the same time I was. He will be working at a separate location on a different shift, so I have no idea how he will play into future episodes. Which brings me to the most important, to me at least, item…yes; there will be further chronicles of my so called geek life. I don’t know what kind of stories the future holds, but I find it hard to believe that in a place as busy and populated as a hospital doesn’t have any stories to tell.

If this were a television show, this would probably be the season finale in which most of the characters opted not to sign on for next season. Maybe the producers couldn’t meet their salary demands or they just lost faith in the quality of the show. I will continue to update you as things from season one wrap up, a post-season wrap up if you will, but expect season two of The Cubers to premiere on June 9^th with all new characters, all new nicknames, and all new stories.

And now it’s time for another Newcastle…