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Posted December 30, 2006 • Comments Off on This is this week’s news

My former employer has wooed me back. They offered me a fixed salary of x minus y, if you let x equal my theoretical annual pay now at the hourly rate I’m at and y equal what I spend on commuting. I’ll be working from home. That is the dream, and it is truth. Plus things I don’t have now, including health insurance, vacation days, sick days, and paid holidays. Hardware, software, and communications I don’t have at home will be subsidized (basically, this means I’m going to get a landline [or, more likely, Vonage] and a fax machine, and a copy of CS3 when it comes out), as will the cost of commuting on those days I do need to go in.

Also, there is a signing bonus in the healthy four digits.

First thing my mom said: “Shelley won’t be able to see your Coke can!”

Needless to say, I’m thrilled. I’ve been unhappy, professionally speaking, for about a year and a half. I never disliked the work there; I disliked the job. And they’ve now offered to fix the things that were broken for me. It’s really a great situation all around. Be glad for me.