ZOMG! Internets!

[elaby]

First things first (you can see where my priorities lie!): My new job has internets, but blocks most sites aside from, apparently, CNN.com and other news type or researchy type things. Bummer. No LJ for me at work*.

Second things second: My new job is nice :) So far, I haven't much to do, because I don't have a computer yet (should be getting one soon) but as soon as I get one, I think I'll have tons to do as I get acclimated to a whole new language of acronyms and terms. My job consists mostly of compiling information and making it pretty and presentable to be sent on to clients. It also includes creative use of search terms in an unintuitive database.

I KNEW grad school would come in handy!

The people I work with are very nice, and funny, and reasonable about how quickly I'm to pick things up. Other than the internet thing, and the fact that I'm technically a temporary worker and am not issued a badge so I have to be buzzed into the office whenever I leave to go to the restroom (kind of a pain), it's a very nice place to work and seems like work I'll enjoy. The hours are flexible as long as you end up working eight hours a day, and if you take time off, you just reflect it on your timesheet. I'm sure they don't want me taking random hours off all over the place, but obviously I wouldn't.

All in all, it was a first-day experience that was better than many of my other first-day experiences :)

Kitchen dug through tonight at home. Put away dishes and glasses, did load of dishes, put cabinet liners in cabinet as they are somewhat groady. Grody? Also, we found a teeny bottle of scotch that the last tenant left in a corner of one cabinet XD


*I haven't actually experimented with this, as I have no computer yet, but I doubt the site will be allowed.

Comments

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that your first day went well, with only a few annoyances. Could you take your laptop and use it at lunchtime? I know someone else who does that because she's not allowed to use the internet at her job, at least for personal use. She does go to a cafeteria (sp? that doesn't look right) nearby, though, and probably has an hour for lunch, so I don't know if that would work, or if you'd want to do that until you're more settled. Just a thought.

Your job and the atmosphere there sounds very nice and comfortable, though. I'm sure you'll fit right in and settle in nicely. First days are always a bit nerve-wracking, but this one sounded better than most.

I'll most likely talk to you tonight and see you Thursday. I have a routine check-up echo-cardiogram at York Hospital at 2 PM on Thursday, but if you're done at the Writing Center and want to come over, you can come anytime, even if we're not home.

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, yeah, good idea on the laptop idea!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'd be able to get internet even on my own computer, but I'd be able to use it for other fun things at lunch, so that's a good idea :) I dunno how much I'd do in a half-hour, though. I walked around outside today, and it's very pretty over there *laughs*

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

*snuggles around* YAY for great first days!!

And o.O on that Scotch!

[cortue.livejournal.com]

Cool about the job, although the buzzing-in thing sounds really awkward. How long until you get a badge?


'It also includes creative use of search terms in an unintuitive database.'

Ahaha, oh databases. The bastion of humanity’s progress. I flee from having to help people order things at the library.


Search term: Machiavelli

! This database does not recognize your search term.

Search term: The Prince

! This database does not recognize your search term.

Search term: The

This database is out to lunch.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

XD You're so awesome! As for the badges, I won't get one until I'm a permanent employee, which wouldn't be until September. However, today, someone said another temp had a badge, so maybe I'll get one :)

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

hak42 told me you were working in Portsmouth; just curious, for which company?

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Sun Life Financial. It's on Pease :)