Spilled (post 9981)
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Really enjoyed my first week in the new job, it's a great place and a good crowd. And I'm not just writing this in case anyone there remembered the url from my CV and decides to investigate at some point. I even achieved something in my first week, I wrote my first plugin for DokuWiki, which the team are using for documentation and general wikiness. My plugin takes a little tag like [blah name=paul+clarke] and runs off to the personnel database and gets contact details and a photo and things, terribly exciting.
Weird thing about work number one: today they had a music quiz, going on all day, just to entertain the staff. As I only joined this week and didn't know anyone I didn't get in a team in time, but it's nice that they have these things. It was basically a PS2 and a projector and this music quiz game, and I think I'd have done OK in it. Maybe next time, let's hope these organised skives motivational sessions are a regular feature.
Weird thing about work number two: I'd only been there two days when pay day came around, AND I actually got paid. Result! I wasn't expecting anything for the first month at least...
Weird thing about work number three: It's in the countryside. It's a great office, but right out in proper countryside, and the route back to the station is down ten to fifteen minutes of country lanes, with no pavements or lighting. It's nice and rural in the daytime, walking past sheep and things, but at hometime it's pitch black and frightening, so I've started taking A TORCH to work. How many people do you know who need to take a torch to work, and who does not actually work down a coalmine or anything? It's weird.
IF you think you'd like to come and work here, let me know, I expect I can earn a bonus for getting people in. You need to bring your own torch, or you could drive, like most of the people who work there seem to do.
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And now all the muggers who do their research on the internet know:
1) Where you work
2) That you carry a nice spanking new Mac PowerBook Pro in you bag
3) That you walk alone along a country lane in the dark from the train station (and therefore your route)
4) You're the bloke carrying the torch in case they had trouble spotting you in the dark
I would start blogging about all those mouse traps you keep in your bag, the recently sharpened machete you keep up your sleeve and the angry unmuzzled rottweiler you take on your walk to work. Oh and you're 6'7" bloke who lifts heavy weights regularly down the gym and have recently been released from the mental hospital since the treatment for your psychotic delustions and associated violence seems to be working.
3 Feb :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
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I overheard some bloke who spilled my pint in the pub going on about it, that'll learn him.
3 Feb :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
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Damn, more evidence for the gradual Americanisation (is that a word?) of the English language... I try hard not to slip into American English as I like the quirkiness and irregularity of UK English e.g. spilt instead of spilled, learnt vs. learned, spelt vs. spelled, cancelled vs. canceled, despatch vs. dispatch and so on. Looks like the Firefox auto-spellcheck for EN-GB is a bit polluted with US English though? I'll get off my soapbox now and back onto the sidewalk, I mean pavement and stop evangilising, I mean preaching.
