Work Work Work
It’s been 3 weeks since I started work. And I have to say, I don’t really like working in corporate jobs. For the following reasons:
- Can’t wear jeans.
- Can’t wear sneakers (although I wear my nike’s and they haven’t noticed).
- And lastly, and most importantly, half the people there don’t seem to give a shit about what they are doing.
I know it’s always cool to stick it to the man or w/e but it’s kind of depressing when you are sitting in a cubicle and you hear people calling home to tell their kid to finish his homework, or schedule their tennis games for next week. People drag on work for weeks when they could be done in about half of one. There isn’t a lot of intrinsic push… I wonder if its just government jobs or other places that I imagine to be different. Like people at google, or MS labs, do they do the same shit? i.e. just do work so the next time the boss comes around to check on you, you have something to tell him?
Eh. Atleast it’s paying. I am getting paid about 10/hour but atleast I get to play in software. They didn’t put me in testing (which btw, sucks monkey nuts… giant hairy monkey nuts). The dev team I am part of is working on something fairly cool. We are consolidating a bunch of old spreadsheets that people use to get things working around here into one central system where you have a web based dashboard of some sort to know where people are in their projects across the teams. We are also providing web services for maybe a client application to connect to if needed. We are mostly using AppFuse . Pretty cool stuff. But as I said, when you go out of these small teams, the rest of the like… 60 people on the floor basically seem to want to get to the end of the day as soon as they get in. Hope it doesn’t turn me into that sort of person…
Terps Racing is coming up very soon. Going to Cali for about 2 weeks. The first week I will be at competition and the second, I shall be spending some time with my cousin in San Diego…doing nothing! Should be fun. Oh and Kosta is here! Well… I haven’t seen him yet. He apparently got screwed over by the airlines … surprise surprise… But we are supposed to be hanging out on Monday. I should start some sort of list where I check off names as the meet the people from hey.nu. So far I would only have checked Sari, but soon, Kosta… hmmm…
Well … that was a tad bit long.
*proudproud*