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forgot to mention yesterday, but after a 3 hour interview yesterday morning/lunchtime i have received a promotion

well, its actually a completely new role working with a new team rather than a "promotion" as such.

my new official role here at billyhill is "UI Architect" (:roll:), which means that rather than being the webmonkey that writes the website, i'm now the person that decides how it will work, ensures that the design is consistent, and that enforces usability and "accessibility"

i also get to investigate new user interface ("UI") technologies (weblogic portal anyone? ), write departmental policies and decide upon "design patterns" (that probably wont mean much unless you're an OO programmer) for our developers to adopt.

i dont actually get my crayons out and decide what colour it will be etc, but i get to tell the designers that the new shade of blue they have used on that page isnt the same as the one on the front page, and why are you using 2 diff shades? and also, the new shade wont show up if you have type 1 colour blindness

laz will like that aspect of the role

its not just the website i get to cast my beady eye over now though - its all the internal MIS apps too. i will be in charge of dictating their look & feel, consistency of design, security, usability, performance, etc etc

there's loads more repsonsibility, and it will give me a formal outlet to put across some of the ideas which i had previously been passing on to the other members of the "architecture" team as informal suggestions...

and it pays more money and looks way better on the cv

ace

Congrats!

I have absolutely no clue what you're doing exactly, but congrats anyway.

Well done geez!

canon docre wrote:I have absolutely no clue what you're doing exactly, but congrats anyway.

thanks

Well, as canon docre, I don't have a clue what you're going to do... I'd better start following a Chinese course

Congrats, still!

well done mate! it all sounds gobbledy-gook (gobbledy-geek? ) to me, but i'm easily impressed.

"gobbledy-geek"

Congrats Quiff!

One step closer to taking over the world...

Congratulations! I didn't understand anything either, but the "more money" bit sounded great...

well done! so this mean less geeking and more guiding?

hallucienate wrote:well done! so this mean less geeking and more guiding?

potentially. but there is still a lot of scope for r&d prior to making the recommendations.

so i guess its more pissing about with new toys and less actual work

Congrats. Have fun pissing about

Fablious news, Quiffster. More money huh? Enough to make Jo a lady of lesuire?

Top banana!

Nice one Quiffy.

Can I have your old job? I'm sh1t with computers, but I like the sound of 'webmonkey'.

Planet Dave wrote:Can I have your old job? I'm sh1t with computers, but I like the sound of 'webmonkey'.

Perhaps there's some room left in the zoo, don't remember seeing that kind of monkey back there

Congratulations! Apparently we do get good news around here.

Nice, congratulations Mr Quiff.

As it goes I got a promotion recently as well with a title of "Senior Solutions Manager".

Let's break that title down shall we ... "senior" - meaningless, "solutions" - buzzword, "manager" - of no one.

A few quid more? Thanks very much.

ta

i think i'd like to have a chat with batfish at some point and get his view on accessibility

Big congrats Quiff!

Weeeeeee!

Now you can FINALLY pay for that ticket to the Belgium HL Do!

IZ.

Aye, nice one QB!

Like what Zuma said

I somehow remember telling you to "go get her job " BUT I see you moved up that ladder the way you know how....

CONGRATULATIONS QB!

Enjoy! and knock them dead

MB *in admirational awe*

oh dear, does this make you part of middle management?