To be honest I don’t like to bring the day job online, but since so many of you were kindly asking, I thought I’d let you know how my first week at my new job was.
1. Important things were done, like getting my desk, laptop, mobile, security badge and joining up to the Euro Millions syndicate ;o) Rest assured, we are responsible project team members, and have a risk raised on us winning and all disappearing at once…
2. I have discovered the time when the drivers of the east end of Glasgow truly lose their minds (apparently it wasn’t because of the snow the other day) but I have worked out a get out of the jam clause, which seems to have passed everyone else by, it’s totally sneaky, you go straight through the lights rather than filtering off left, drive a couple of hundred yards to a roundabout, go all the way round and come back to the lights from the other direction with a nice short queue and a better pass at the light phases. Actually it isn’t sneaky, it’s common sense, but if all the other drivers are too stupid to realise, I’m not complaining…
3. I have worked out the optimum way to get over to Sainsbury’s (and Ikea, though I have thus far resisted) in the car, and to the main shopping centre on foot.
4. I have discovered that my fellow colleagues aren’t the fridge hogs my old colleagues were ;o) But if you are a milky drink drinker, they actually provide the milk (which is the source of more arguments in the workplace than I care to mention, I’m so glad I’m not a tea/coffee drinker!)
5. The team that works at the next bank of desks are some kind of international support team, so I hear conversations in all sorts of languages (none of them are British, though I have no idea where they are from) I did have to stifle a laugh today though when they got off a conference call and chose to swear in English about the disaster it had obviously been (I only did a year of German at school, I haven’t a clue what it was about lol)
6. Finally, I learned that I can’t expense it if I make my own laptop bag (and that my boss didn’t realise one *could* make a laptop bag). Darn.
Hope those of you working stiffs had as entertaining week as I did ;o)
Loved this little insight into your working week! Always gives me a happy smug feeling to find a way round traffic that other people haven't spotted….sometimes can be so simple too. Think your boss needs educating re what office essentials can be made.
I'm still working on becoming an office stiff again altho' it is unlikely to be very office-y with my background (and therein lies the problem with finding work!). Hope week two is equally illuminating. Juliex
I can't tell you via comments what I learnt at work this week 🙂
Glad you're new job is going ok and I'm sure you'll have Ikea sorted by the time I need you to run errands for me 🙂
I can tell you we had some mighty good fun with valentines cards at work this week! Glad it's been a good'n, and I think you should educate the new boss in laptop carrying options!
I love your first week roundup. Thanks for letting us know how it goes.
Sounds like you'll have to commission a laptop bag then! ;0)
I'm so glad it went well! Hope you get Ikea sorted soon, then the world will be right…you weirdo (people that dont drink tea or coffee freak me out…) lol
Is that the main shopping center? It's so pretty!
Oooh, what kinds of arguments happen over the milk? I drink green tea, so no milk required. Is that a picture of your old work's fridge? Cause it looks pretty full to me!
Wait, so you can expense a laptop bag if you buy it, but not if you make it? Harrumph! You should write out an invoice from Littlest Thistle and charge yourself, then. :>
Sounds like you are settling in well, and knew you would find a way round the traffic crap. Yay for the new job!
You survived! Yey! Well done chick! Jxo
I gave up drinking milk in my tea when I started at my job. Good on you for figuring the sneaky common sense way to get there. As for the laptop cover could you buy one from yourself? No doubt they'll all want one when they see yours.
Sounds like a good first week to me
Sorted!!!
I love that your boss didn't know you 'could' make a laptop case!
Glad the first week sounds good and that you're getting settled! Wooo!
Sounds like a pretty good first week to me. I like that you worked out an alternate way to get to work already, good thinking!
Maybe if you made your boss a really cool lap top case you would be able to expense both that one and one for you? I love the traffic solution. Glad you are settling in.
Can I be jealous that you work in Scotland? It is my dream to live and work there one day.
Glad you survived! I've never worked in a place where you have to take your own milk but then I've never worked in an office!
Sounds like a good start. Hope this new job continues to go well, and keep you amused 🙂
I haven't changed jobs in a gazillion years – OK, maybe 22 or 23…but I know that it can be exhausting, but you sound as if you've got it all under control. Glad that it went well!
Sounds like you're settling in nicely.
I just can't wrap my mind around the fact there are people who don't drink tea or coffee. I would be dehydrated without them.
So…does everyone think you're nuts for taking a photo of the inside of the work fridge?
Sounds like you're settling in beautifully.
Make that laptop bag – then claim it on tax at the end of the year.
Oh I have similar driving sneaks, my favourite is to turn right on a roundabout and go all the way around to beat the queue going left or straight on 😉
I just handed my notice in at work today so this time next month I will be up against the same challenges!
I just love your sense of humor and wish you were one of my co-workers! 🙂 Stay away from the milk wars!