**Winter 2005**
This period was yet another work term. This was my 7th, which is already beyond the 6 that most people got. For whatever reason, I decided to tick with my old company, making it four periods that I will have spent at the place. That’s too long to be working in one place, let me tell you. However, I’ll be honest, the big reason that I stuck around there was the ridiculously high pay. It’s not the top (I think Altera paid a big load higher), but it generates oohs and aahs when it comes up in conversation. Of course, the pay came at a price.
In the past, I’d already bitched and complained about working there for so long. Right at the beginning of the term, I’d already made a prediction that this was going to be four months of mind numbing crap. And well…yeah, it was. There was a lot of bullshit there. I mean, in some places you can ask the full timers for help and they wouldn’t give you attitude. Oh, but not there. At the beginning, there was a tool that I hadn’t worked with before. I was unsure of what to do so I was wholly reliant on people to teach me. I was asking the guy assigned to help me and he was giving me off-hand comments like “other co-ops have been able to figure it out.” Sorry, but that’s just wholly unfair. It really set the tone for the next four months.
By the end, when they asked me whether I wanted to return, I declined the offer. I wanted a change of venue. Fair enough. I’d done enough for the company. Time to move on!
To be honest, I think that’s all I care to say about this time period. Maybe I’ll elaborate on some points at a later time.
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