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Sort Test Passed

I passed the sort test tonight!!! Finally!! That means I'll be getting a $150 gift card to Best Buy and a $1/hour raise. I am really happy. I have been working on this for quite some time, but tonight I had a really hard night and so I stayed after work and studied, practiced, and took the test over and over again until I got the necessary 98% accuracy and 1200 pph (pieces per hour.)

I saved the printout of my results and I really want to scan them and post them in this extended entry, but I don't want some .bmp file that will take up tons of space and take forever to come up onscreen. If anyone could guide me on how to convert the file to a .jpg or .gif I'd be quite appreciative.

Yea! I am so happy. At the same time I am pretty sad. I am basically going to be getting another job tomorrow. So, all the guys (and now a new gal) that I have gotten to know over the last four months will be gone to me in a big way. Also, I'll be losing two really cool supervisors. I will be getting two new ones, but they probably won't be as cool. I don't really see how they could be.

So, yeah... I'm happy with myself. I'm also happy because it is done and over with. Now I don't need to spend time studying for that anymore and I can use my time to perform other tasks like putting the finishing touches on the Thank You cards that we are sending to people who gave us wedding gifts and memorizing the AvantiMedia sales talk that I made with Joy earlier this summer.
Things to do! Things to do! I'm just glad that one of them is behind me.

UPDATE -- 7/12/2005 @ 11:30PM
The information I got about the gift card is wrong. It isn't to Best Buy. Instead what they do is give me an American Express gift card, and I am going to have to pay taxes on it as earned income. That is kind of a bummer because it makes it more like a little over $100, but still... extra money.

Posted by David at July 7, 2005 02:39 AM