Apr 26, 2006 
Ladies and Gentlemen, you are now reading the words of an official Ashland Inc. employee (as of 5-15). That’s right, I have been hired on as a permanent employee. For those of you that didn’t know, I have been working as a contractor for Ashland for the past 9 months. This basically means they pay more for my services, but I don’t get any benefits, insurance, paid holidays, or anything. They can fire me with a wave of a finger. But now I get it all. Even the cheaper gym membership. Woo hoo. It’s kind of a weird situation amongst the other employees. On one had then other Ashland employees are congratulating me and welcoming me into their glorious empire. While the fraternity of contractors are congratulating me but giving me the evil eye that says they should have been “the one”. I really shouldn’t but I feel kinda bad when me, a young fresh out of college bachelor, is getting bumped up from a contractor to employee instead of the guy with a brand new kid or the 50+ year old. But, such is the battlefield that is Corporate America.
Pictures from the Spring Game and Nick’s Bday cookout should be up hopefully later tonight. I’ve been having problems with my PC that I hope to have resolved soon. Who knew that removing your DVI cable from your monitor could cause a geometry mismatch in the # of sectors on your hard drive…. yea…
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