Thursday, it was chilly in the morning, but grew hot during the day. I woke up all stuffed up and with itchy, swollen eyes from leaving the windows open.
I brought in 1 1/2 dozen donuts for my new team members (the way to a co-worker’s heart is through their stomach, LOL!) I had another meeting in the morning to discuss more ideas about my new role.
I remembered to bring in my drill motor after lunch and used it to install a triangle in the corner of my desktop (I’ve installed and removed that thing about 5 times when I’ve had to move). Jake graciously gave up a bit of his lunchtime to help hold it for me while I lay on my back and screwed it in.
I mentioned I had put in a Maintenance Request to move that two-drawer lateral file under the desktop (I keep hitting my knee on it) and he asked why we couldn’t move it ourselves. I said I tried that and couldn’t budge it, so I thought it was screwed in. It turned out it wasn’t and, with me shoving the desktop upwards from my reclined floor position, he was able to drag it out.
So, now my cubicle is pretty much the way I want! I put the drill motor back in the car and spent the afternoon learning how to and then inputting data in the Hardware/Software Inventory section of our ERP system. It’s a tedious, but necessary job and my filler in between my other jobs. I think I finally got the hang of it (at least I stopped having to ask so many questions) around 3:30 PM.
Again, I was going to stay at work for a while before heading off to school. But, they are doing some network maintenance at 5:00 PM, so I headed off to college. I got there at 5:20 and found that my instructor was giving some review class to two of my classmates who joined the program late. So, I sat in on that until 6:00. It couldn’t hurt!
I got out of class on time again and was home just a bit after 10:00 PM. I was starving, so I warmed up two pieces of corn and a couple of potatoes. Then I peeled four shrimp and ate them cold with cocktail sauce. I watched the news until 11:30 and then to bed.
"I brought in 1 1/2 dozen donuts for my new team members.. I had another meeting in the morning to discuss more ideas about my new role."
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I was a little disappointed by that meeting. I remember when you followed me to Manufacturing (before you followed me to IT) and I got to beat you up during meetings. That was fun. You were just too damn agreeable yesterday.
Do you work for General Motors now? That's the GM way of doing business....donuts. hmmm
ReplyDelete@Jake - Now that you mention it, he has been a bit too agreeable as of late. It is a crying shame. Takes all of the fun out of beating on him.
ReplyDelete@ Jake & jwg: It's my new plan: Go along to get along. Besides, I'm getting more mellow in my old age...
ReplyDelete@ GreatPapaFish: Did you forget I worked onsite at GM for three years, back in my tech writing years? I learned from the best!
the cake is a lie
ReplyDelete@ Chell: ?
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