history

so I am going to take you back...back to the day when it all started with Metropolitan Title Company

July 14, 2003. I received a phone call from Paige Personnel saying that they had a company that wanted me to start the next day. OK no problem, except that I need to get out there....

So I packed my things and took off for Carol Stream Illinois where I was going to move in with an apartment full of boys and Nina..and soon to be Tristan.

July 15, 2003...the journey begins, I trek out to find this place Metropolitan Title Company (I remember thinking what the frick is a title company...i wonder what they do...at least what im doing sounds interesting (imaging specialist)...so I arrive and it was literally not even 5 minutes from our apartment which was sweet! I get there and Henry greets me...he tells me to follow him all the way to the back of the office in the conference room. they had no toher space for me...and let me tell you...i think thats where i lost my sanity. Some guy who was the IT guru was finishing up settiny my PC up with dual monitors...now that was weird at 1st but now i dont know how i am going to live without them. he introduced himself as wes. and for whatever reason for a few weeks he scared me i wouldnt talk to him...and thats where i learned how to solve my own computer problems....anyways back to my 1st day Henry sits down with me and pretty much admits he has no idea how to do what im going to do, its never been done before never been tested by anyone in the office so we were going to learn together. at that exact moment i was like what did i get myself into? well we figured it out and for about 5 months thats all i did, scan papaers into a computer...mind u this scanner is junk, very expensive byt for high volume its junk. i think i remember wes telling me it was a $3000 scanner. anyways after about 5 months i get moved to the front of the office in a corner.

After that move i was upgraded to a much faster scanner and started to work with wes and tony on a beta project...wes and i became very close friends. although we never hung out outside of work we became good friends..id spend hours talking to him in his office about stupid stuff, oh the fun we had...playing with the servers and so on. tony and i became close but i only met him a few times, we spent hours on the phone, i think the longest was 3 hours trying to figure a problem out. anyone that has to deal with troubleshooting computers...3 hours on the phone with someone to doso is painful...so u talk about other things to forget about the stupid computer. wes also taught me a very important lesson..when throwing a computer out a window...DO NOT throw it through thick glass, it has to be the thin type...otherwise the computer wont break through...and no i never did test this theory but its always in the back of my mind when i am thinking about tossing a pc out the window.

I was soon promoted to order entry...which was good...and i also inherited 2 desks b/c i still scanned docs, yeah i had 2 full time tasks...but that only lasted about 2 months then they hired someone to take over scanning.

i then moved to the front of the office by vickie and rebecca. very exciting. BUT i learned to hate this seat i inherited back up receptionist....ick! that is one thing i despise...because of the very reason it sucks up your day...and throws you off of what you were doing...no fun.

so a few months later we are having our roof fixed...and on a certain day about noon or so it starts to look like its going to storm...bad..but the guys assured us that they copvered everything up and it would not leak in...ok no worries...hehe well it started to rain adn i mean like buckets of water raining so hard and it was so windy it was raining almost horizontally...and all of a sudden i hear "im leaking..." my boss had drops of water coming in...then literally like 5 minutes later it started to POUR in her office...ive never moved so fast in my life before...well then it starts drizzling in 2 other examiners offices...meanwhile our v.p. is on the phone with the company doing the roof explaining they were going to need to come down and fix this like now....it was pure chaos....BUT it gets better...our computer room starts to leak...NOT good, i mean literally all the servers for WI and IL are in here...among other things...again NOT GOOD...so imagine 5 pple frantically trying to tarp over them and shut things down that could go down...just pure chaos but it gets even better...someone went back to the conference room where we had about 100 computers stored adn 50 or 60 flat panel monitors stored...yup you guessed it we heard this from the back room "oh my gosh they're all going to be ruined" rain was coming in directly over about 60% of the computers adn monitors....so again this time imagine 12 pple heaving computers up off the floor onto the tables away from the water and covering them with a tarp...seriously it was insane. i will never forget that day ever.

ok well thats enough history for 1 day i think...more to come later :-)