Well, I think I am officially situated here at work
5 Comments Published by JKREW on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 2:00 PM.
It's almost 3 'o clock here and I think I rather like my surroundings. It's very quiet. Almost every code monkey in here is of Indian descent but are awfully nice and forthcoming to introduce themselves. It's going to be tough to remember everybodies names though and as everyone who knows me knows that I suck at getting names down quickly.
My boss(?) Dave is a pretty cool dude who is quiet as hell but I think will open up a bit down the road. They stuck me in a corner area with plenty of sun and a massive window above my head so I think if I bring in some plants, they will do well here.
I have a brand spankin' new G5 quietly humming next to my knee right now but the bad thing is that it's connected to a shite 17" CRT monitor which I believe was an old server monitor as a pretty XP screen is burnt into it. GHEY. I don't have any software on this computer either and was told to download Adobe's CS2 suite from the LA server. GHEY part II!
But... there's a pretty 21" widescreen cinema display to the left of me waiting a new power cord. w00t!
The bandwidth blows at this place. I guess I was really REALLY spoiled with Ogilvy's Q3 setup downing 11megs/sec. I'm lucky to get 80k/sec here. Poop to that I say.
I went home to eat lunch today. Carson was happy of course. They have free tea here but it's all of these totally fucked up flavours like cinnamon spice and the green tea is decaf so um, that won't do.
The heirarchy is weird here too as this place is mainly the coding arm of the larger body. The creative team is based in LA so I think it's going to be hard for me to make my nest here. The days of loud music and sporadic behaviour are going to have to wait as I am definately not in my element. The VW team is surrounded by many, many quiet coder bees but within the VW hive, there are some really fun people. I hope to move my desk area near them soon as I keep hearing my name and "new designer" over the desk walls.
Well, that's about it. I know it's not too exciting but I think if it was any more exciting I wouldn't get any work done =)
My boss(?) Dave is a pretty cool dude who is quiet as hell but I think will open up a bit down the road. They stuck me in a corner area with plenty of sun and a massive window above my head so I think if I bring in some plants, they will do well here.
I have a brand spankin' new G5 quietly humming next to my knee right now but the bad thing is that it's connected to a shite 17" CRT monitor which I believe was an old server monitor as a pretty XP screen is burnt into it. GHEY. I don't have any software on this computer either and was told to download Adobe's CS2 suite from the LA server. GHEY part II!
But... there's a pretty 21" widescreen cinema display to the left of me waiting a new power cord. w00t!
The bandwidth blows at this place. I guess I was really REALLY spoiled with Ogilvy's Q3 setup downing 11megs/sec. I'm lucky to get 80k/sec here. Poop to that I say.
I went home to eat lunch today. Carson was happy of course. They have free tea here but it's all of these totally fucked up flavours like cinnamon spice and the green tea is decaf so um, that won't do.
The heirarchy is weird here too as this place is mainly the coding arm of the larger body. The creative team is based in LA so I think it's going to be hard for me to make my nest here. The days of loud music and sporadic behaviour are going to have to wait as I am definately not in my element. The VW team is surrounded by many, many quiet coder bees but within the VW hive, there are some really fun people. I hope to move my desk area near them soon as I keep hearing my name and "new designer" over the desk walls.
Well, that's about it. I know it's not too exciting but I think if it was any more exciting I wouldn't get any work done =)
The pics r of your new digs??? If so...pretty nice.
I think U will do fine.
Enjoy!
I'm so excited for you! I feel like this mother hen - albiet 3K miles away. Be good - keep your nose clean for the first couple of weeks - and have the time of your life!
Hey up there. How about a sangwich? I'd like a seamless on white. Oh, and Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise please.
Thanks
you may be situated at work, but you're slackin on yer blog, bucko!!
I agree with xodiaq. We need entertainment!