Monday was ROUGH. Well, for me anyway. My computer had issues and it took a couple of hours for them to get it figured out. (I will say that I pointed out one of the key factors early on and was ignored only to hear them say "hey did you know it was doing this" an hour and a half later...) Then I got some solid work in for about 3 hours, which was great until my keyboard and mouse froze up after googling some answers- none of which worked so I smacked myself in the forehead and went "Hey, first rule is to 'turn it off and on again' " which lead to a 45 min delay as my computer installed 22 updates. My boss grabbed a spare keyboard and the mouse from the other lady in the office who was out at the time (I didn't know he had taken hers until the next morning when she started asking around for her mouse and low and behold the new girl has it at her desk...did NOT help my relations with her at all)
I answered an email and hung my ass out the window for many to see on an issue that came up last week. So eager to please, I *have* to slow down a bit make sure I understand what I reading and not just making general assumptions. The boys miss the lady I replaced and it shows but I hope to slowly win them over. I can almost grasp some of things they want me to know about: elastic beanstalks and load balancing no longer look like rubber plants and a clown standing on a seesaw juggling in my head.
So this week I've been charged with interviewing the boys in the office. Getting to know them and getting to know what they do. Poor guys.
I've convinced one of the gents that I'm a fool but whatcanIdo. He was talking about how the clock on the desk is slower than the clock on the wall- I joked about a time vortex in the lobby area an he said rather than a vortex is was a "something or other". I was trying to make a note in my brain what he had said so I could look it up later as I didn't know what he had referred to and he followed it up by "time is not constant" to which I giggled (as well- duh I know and I was too busy trying to remember if I had heard of what he had mentioned before) and he got all huffy "it's not a giggling matter, we *know* time is not linear" and he huffed away. That he miss understood and called shame upon me- totally derailed me and I forgot what he had mentioned before and I was flustered that he thought I was a giggling ninny. :P ah well, he is also very obsessive compulsive so I may slip back to his desk and uncap all his pens and place random objects out of place in his office. Harumph.
Tuesday went better as I did not hang my ass out the metaphoric window and my computer worked well all day long. I wore my new mega platform shoes- had a spectacular stumble in the hall, caught myself before I fell on my face AND NO ONE SAW IT. *that* in my book, is a great day. :)
I hope today is as good if not even better.
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