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OK, it’s finally done…I finally put in my notice of resignation today and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of me. I wasn’t planning on giving my notice until next Friday afternoon and I’d written the first draft of my letter last night, but I realized that I would have to move my notification up earlier this morning. One of my coworkers whose last day is this coming Friday told me this morning that he had a hunch I’d be asked to take over the management of his former project and, once I thought about it, … Read the rest

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Yesterday, I got an email from the Admissions Office at Stanford saying that they had hired a company to do background checks of all its admitted students for the Class of 2006 to verify the information that they had put in their applications, including information about one’s current employer. Apparently, these background checks are going to start today and go until the end of May.

This is problematic because I wasn’t planning on putting in my notice of resignation until June 15 and I’m worried that the search company’s inquiry will alert the HR people at my company that i’m … Read the rest

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I just got out of a meeting with my personnel manager and now I’m feel all kinds of guilty. Since I transitioned to my current role in January, he has gone a long way toward giving me a lot of opportunities to learn things through new tasking and he’s been trying to give me the skills that I’d need to become a good Project Manager here…the problem is that I’m going to have to put in my notice sometime in June and I’m afraid that he’ll think I was wasting his time with all the tutilege that he’s given me.… Read the rest

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I just got an email from Stanford telling me that I wasn’t moved to the semifinal round for the General Motors felowship in their Partnership for Diversity (P4D) Fellowship program. This diss along with the earlier diss from Goldman Sachs means that my fellowship search crapped out. Ford is another one of the sponsors of the program that offers a summer internship guarantee in exchange for full-tuition sponsorship, but they were looking for a candidate with a hardcore engineering background and I don’t think that my software engineering background was hardcore enough. Basically, i’m looking at a big ol’ loan… Read the rest

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