winterbadger

OK, so, when I got home from gaming last night I found a letter had come from a possible employer. At the same time that finally getting my clearance will (if it ever happens) allow me to work fully in my current job, it will also allow me to decide if I want to take up a government agency on a job they provisionally offered me last year.

So was the letter news about this thing that I've been waiting on since, oh, this time last year? Nope, it was a cheery note from my possible future employer, letting me know that they had finally managed to finagle a name change that allows them to join the ranks of the Big Boys, the TLAs (three-letter agencies), after languishing for years with a four-letter acronym (never mind that the change involves somethign that, as an editor I would draw a big red line through and insert a marginal note to the author to never, ever think that s/he can get such a trumpery piece of word-mangling past me). They also wanted to reassure me that this name change would not affect teh status of my application (and, honestly, I can imagine a Federal agency thinking that every single process they were previously involved in should be reset by a name change, so maybe I'm "relieved" not "irritated".)

But it was to laugh and shake my head...