I heard a rumor about this last week, but I just got the official word.

I am moving from a Production Support role back to an implementation/project-oriented role here at the bank. I’ll still be working in the same group, but doing different stuff.

Basically, in the “old world”, my boss, Jim, was …

All my various insurances kick in on Nov 1.

So I’m putting off a bunch of stuff. Quitting smoking? That’ll be Nov 1 when my prescription benefit kicks in and I can get the good drugs to help with that.

I need new contacts, but I’m going to wait until Nov 1 because then I can get them cheap/free. Oh …

This morning I had my “orientation” with JPMC.

It was the normal, run-of-the-mill “first day” stuff. Benefits look pretty standard, although I noticed with the vision plan that I can get a discount for laser eye surgery stuff. I don’t know how much of a discount yet though.

When I got to work today, …