The Abrupt End of Training
To ensure none of you call a morgue - I probably should post something.
I was too busy "working". Well if you can call it that. So far I've been sent to 2 conferences and a course in Orlando, Seattle and Redmond. The first of such events was at Orlando - naturally they put me up at the Disney resort. It was a nice place except when in order to get on the Internet you have stay on hold for 3 hours. The courtesy waiting music was "bippity boppity boo". A week of fun conferences and late night partying is quite tiresome and I realized that I had to do it all again at my second conference in Seattle. Seattle is a great city, full of all the things I always look for: incoherent road signs, stagnant traffic and parking nightmares. Also working for a company of 70,000 and being the new hires automatically means that when there is a global conference, your hotel will be 1 hour away from the convention centre. This lets you enjoy the experience of rush hour traffic from your vantage point on a highly unstable looking floating bridge. Of course on the journey back my flight was cancelled and I had to stay in the crapopolis of Detroit. This has become such a common occurence it no longer qualifies as a Grr. of the day.
After sighing a relief from the festive conferencing and schmoozing I realized what every ambitious new hire experiences head on: The Brick Wall at the End of Training. Usually coming without warning and accompanied by the nauseating feeling of "Now What", the Wall is a great way to remind you of your progress thus far. Zero if you are lucky or a close to $6,000 expenses report if you are well.... me. So far I have earned the company well over $10,000...of debt.
So here is to finding some clients fast and billing like there's no tomorrow!
Grr of The Day:
Wonderful DHL has a policy that it cannot change the address of shipment once a vendor has released the product. This means if you live in a building where there is clearly no place to put a package, they will refuse to leave it next door at the rental office. Instead for highly secure, urgent packages they have a great service which involves leaving the bill of lading in a pool of water on a sidewalk outside your door, conveniently PISSING THE HELL OUT OF YOU. deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths...
I was too busy "working". Well if you can call it that. So far I've been sent to 2 conferences and a course in Orlando, Seattle and Redmond. The first of such events was at Orlando - naturally they put me up at the Disney resort. It was a nice place except when in order to get on the Internet you have stay on hold for 3 hours. The courtesy waiting music was "bippity boppity boo". A week of fun conferences and late night partying is quite tiresome and I realized that I had to do it all again at my second conference in Seattle. Seattle is a great city, full of all the things I always look for: incoherent road signs, stagnant traffic and parking nightmares. Also working for a company of 70,000 and being the new hires automatically means that when there is a global conference, your hotel will be 1 hour away from the convention centre. This lets you enjoy the experience of rush hour traffic from your vantage point on a highly unstable looking floating bridge. Of course on the journey back my flight was cancelled and I had to stay in the crapopolis of Detroit. This has become such a common occurence it no longer qualifies as a Grr. of the day.
After sighing a relief from the festive conferencing and schmoozing I realized what every ambitious new hire experiences head on: The Brick Wall at the End of Training. Usually coming without warning and accompanied by the nauseating feeling of "Now What", the Wall is a great way to remind you of your progress thus far. Zero if you are lucky or a close to $6,000 expenses report if you are well.... me. So far I have earned the company well over $10,000...of debt.
So here is to finding some clients fast and billing like there's no tomorrow!
Grr of The Day:
Wonderful DHL has a policy that it cannot change the address of shipment once a vendor has released the product. This means if you live in a building where there is clearly no place to put a package, they will refuse to leave it next door at the rental office. Instead for highly secure, urgent packages they have a great service which involves leaving the bill of lading in a pool of water on a sidewalk outside your door, conveniently PISSING THE HELL OUT OF YOU. deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths...
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