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Time to say goodbye!
"Thur" wrote in message .. .
"The Bill Mattocks" wrote ... I've resigned my position with the firm I worked for, and am no longer seeking employment as a traveling consultant/road warrior. I have no doubt that I'll miss the travel, as I'll miss posting on r.t.a. But the one thing that is constant is change. Oh... :-/ I haven't been around that long, but I enjoyed your posts and printed them in the past for other to read because I found them to be funny. And I also would like to have your old job ;-) Good luck & have fun! Greetz, *no travelling here* For those who might be interested, my old job is open and available. In addition, my former employer is planning to expand and add at least two more consultants who do what I formerly did. I remain on good terms with my former employers, so if anyone is interested, e-mail me privately and I'll be happy to forward your resume to the appropriate people. The job is Configuration Management Consultant for a major international CM software company. As you all well know, it's 100% travel (or mighty close to it). Pay is excellent (yes, excellent by any standards), but you're on the road a great deal of the time. Travel is mostly North America, some overseas from time to time. You need a passport and a background in software configuration management or a background in software engineering and an understanding of CM principles and use of a major CM tool. The job entails doing implementations, rollouts, implementation planning, customization (javascript, perl, shell), and teaching training classes to groups of 10 or so. And you have to provide your own rubber chicken. Best Regards, Bill Mattocks |
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For some years, I've enjoyed being an occasional participant on rec.travel.air, and posting trip reports and stories that I hope you found amusing or entertaining - it sure helped me deal with the stress of being a road warrior, on the road non-stop to the tune of 100,000+ miles per year. I've posted somewhat less in the last year or so, as I've spent even less time at home or being able to relax with my laptop while on the road, and of course as many have noticed, the tenor of r.t.a. has changed - there are more trolls, more anger, less humor. Many of the other 'regulars' have gone away due to this. I didn't stop reading r.t.a., but I held off jumping into debates that I normally would have greatly enjoyed skirmishing in. I've recently reached the place where it was time to make a change. The continued stresses of air travel in a post-9/11 world, continued and advancing intrusions into my (our) personal privacy, and the general business climate (more travel, spend less money doing it, etc) have combined to make me finally decide that its time to hang up my rubber chicken and move on. I've resigned my position with the firm I worked for, and am no longer seeking employment as a traveling consultant/road warrior. I'm looking for the daily nine-to-five gig instead, something that leaves me home in the evenings and on weekends. I have no doubt that I'll miss the travel, as I'll miss posting on r.t.a. But the one thing that is constant is change. Who knows what life holds? Perhaps in time I'll find myself on the road again. But for now, that part of my life is over, and so to, my semi-regular posts on r.t.a. I wish you all safe travels, good restaurants, working rental cars, no missed connections, non-metallic shoes, and TSA agents on Prozac. Lots of it. Thanks for putting up with my rants, nonsense, diatribes, and ill-humour over the past six or seven years! That's a shame, I have allways looked forward to seeing your trip reports. |
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"The Bill Mattocks" wrote in message om... nobody wrote in message ... The Bill Mattocks wrote: I've resigned my position with the firm I worked for, and am no longer seeking employment as a traveling consultant/road warrior. I'm looking for the daily nine-to-five gig instead, something that leaves me home in the evenings and on weekends. Bill, Sorry to see you go. Your rants, trip reports, etc. are one of the reasons I have stayed here for so long as the newsgroup has become almost worthless. I spend mote time kill filing things tan I do reading. I just may follow you. Good luck, and don't ever lose your sense of humor. Bob |
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The Bill Mattocks writes
Thanks for putting up with my rants, nonsense, diatribes, and ill-humour over the past six or seven years! I've always enjoyed reading your trip reports. Best wishes for the future! -- Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk/ |
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Time to say goodbye!
The Bill Mattocks muttered....
I've recently reached the place where it was time to make a change. The continued stresses of air travel in a post-9/11 world, continued and advancing intrusions into my (our) personal privacy, and the general business climate (more travel, spend less money doing it, etc) have combined to make me finally decide that its time to hang up my rubber chicken and move on. Go not gently into the night. I'll miss your wit, and the comprehension that you used your keyboard asa escape hatch, a way of venting frustation at the foibles and dumbass factors increasingly inherent in air travel. I always marveled that one with as many built in idiosyncrasies and neuroses and physical manifestations thereof as you could even manage to travel as you did. Few might appreciate that for you what may have seemed easy and uneventful was harder for you. I'm not surprised at your decision (although to do it without having founda new position seems in some respects uncharacteristic for one as well organized a traveler as you often seemed to be). After keying that sentence, an entirely different reaction struck me....that your travels may have been so directed, organized, ticketed, planned and developed by others, that it wasn't you who were so well organized, but the system in which you functioned, and that you often were relegated to the condition of "Traveling Drone", a Chaplinesque figure caight up in the cogs and machinery of a system, only able to rebel with the occasional outburst. In a sense, that explains your reaction to WN....the only blow you could strike, the only battle you could win, some say in the choice of airlines. I don't know if my daughter, a mid level corporate exec/road warrior's approach is better, but it qualifies as more effective. She has almost single handedly revamped and forced the restaffing of her company's travel department and policies on the grounds that sensitivities to time and costs had so outweighed sensitivities to the perspective and "needs" of traveling execs and staff, that the job performance of the travelers was diminished far more than any savings could match. I at first laughed when she claimed that the worst examples of sexism were not in the airlines or hotels she used, but among the women in her company's travel office, most of whom had never traveled further than a hundred miles, had no f'ing concept of how hotels compared, possessed no sense of distance or spatial relations, and were greater "male chauvinist pigs" than any of the male execs. Good luck looking. There's more out there than you may think, but a creative sense of relocating may be needed.... TMO |
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The Bill Mattocks Time to say goodbye!
The Bill Mattocks muttered....
I've recently reached the place where it was time to make a change. The continued stresses of air travel in a post-9/11 world, continued and advancing intrusions into my (our) personal privacy, and the general business climate (more travel, spend less money doing it, etc) have combined to make me finally decide that its time to hang up my rubber chicken and move on. Dear Bill: Thank you for the smiles your humorous anecdotes put on so many of our faces. You have used your gift well. Au revoir!! Satya |
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Time to say goodbye!
you're kidding, right? "The Bill Mattocks" wrote in message om... Folks: For some years, I've enjoyed being an occasional participant on rec.travel.air, and posting trip reports and stories that I hope you found amusing or entertaining - it sure helped me deal with the stress of being a road warrior, on the road non-stop to the tune of 100,000+ miles per year. I've posted somewhat less in the last year or so, as I've spent even less time at home or being able to relax with my laptop while on the road, and of course as many have noticed, the tenor of r.t.a. has changed - there are more trolls, more anger, less humor. Many of the other 'regulars' have gone away due to this. I didn't stop reading r.t.a., but I held off jumping into debates that I normally would have greatly enjoyed skirmishing in. I've recently reached the place where it was time to make a change. The continued stresses of air travel in a post-9/11 world, continued and advancing intrusions into my (our) personal privacy, and the general business climate (more travel, spend less money doing it, etc) have combined to make me finally decide that its time to hang up my rubber chicken and move on. I've resigned my position with the firm I worked for, and am no longer seeking employment as a traveling consultant/road warrior. I'm looking for the daily nine-to-five gig instead, something that leaves me home in the evenings and on weekends. I have no doubt that I'll miss the travel, as I'll miss posting on r.t.a. But the one thing that is constant is change. Who knows what life holds? Perhaps in time I'll find myself on the road again. But for now, that part of my life is over, and so to, my semi-regular posts on r.t.a. I wish you all safe travels, good restaurants, working rental cars, no missed connections, non-metallic shoes, and TSA agents on Prozac. Lots of it. Thanks for putting up with my rants, nonsense, diatribes, and ill-humour over the past six or seven years! Best Regards, Bill Mattocks |
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I will miss your posts. Who will stir things up at my local airport SNA?
Ken Ishiguro |
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Time to say goodbye!
"The Bill Mattocks" wrote in message
om... Folks: For some years, I've enjoyed being an occasional participant on rec.travel.air, and posting trip reports and stories that I hope you found amusing or entertaining - it sure helped me deal with the stress of being a road warrior, on the road non-stop to the tune of 100,000+ miles per year. Bye, Bill. I've sometimes disagreed with your comments, but enjoyed reading your stuff anyway because it was related to air travel. Unfortunately, rec.travel.air has become an off-topic cesspool, reflecting the overall state of Usenet. Many old timers (or should I say Usenet veterans) like you have abandoned ship, and it's totally understandable. And frankly I see the off-topic crap in here getting much worse before it gets better. Best of luck to you in your future endeavors, Bill. |
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Time to say goodbye!
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:58:49 -0600 in rec.travel.air, "The fog's
getting thicker." wrote: Unfortunately, rec.travel.air has become an off-topic cesspool, reflecting the overall state of Usenet. Many old timers (or should I say Usenet veterans) like you have abandoned ship, and it's totally understandable. And frankly I see the off-topic crap in here getting much worse before it gets better. killfile. killfile. killfile. |
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