Week One: The Business

On Sunday, I was ready to leave for Africa or Europe to travel and live the life. Yes, I had the day before a new job blues. Sunday was a mixture of excitement and melancholy. My old schedules had ended, like sleeping in late and jumping on the internet to look at pictures of rhinos or of French men wearing berets. I knew that I had to redirect some of my enegry to waking up before the sun and attempting to drink tea in one of those travel mugs that keeps the tea at 180 degrees for like four hours. Yes, Sunday was really about setting up my team-orientate, optimistic, all hard-work and no pay attitude for my new job.

Except this time, there were a few changes. I was looking forward to starting a new job. So here are a few highlights from my first week:

-Collating purchase orders in the one of the worst built business record systems. Information architecture? No, this is manual entry without the crack. Its like asking for a receipt for your espresso in Paris.
-Xeroxing receipts and furniture pictures while staring at a white wall. It gets kinda of boring. Many times I stare at the neighboring refrigerate, so that I can stare at a UPS magnet that allows you to choose four different "attitudes" ie: relaxed, confident, or powerful.
-Eating lunch next to a table full of "undercover" cops that spent their time eating big sandwiches while talking about the difficulty of gathering DNA from a rotting corpse with maggots. Were they telling these stories just for me? I would have thought so but there was a woman sitting with them-but she looked like one of the boys. Ambush make-over! If you know what I mean!
-Smiling and appearing to be pleasant to my new co-workers. If any person looks back to the start of any job that they ever had, no matter how bad the job is, was, or would be, a nice & friendly attitude always has to be "put" on to meet the other workers! Hey. It doesn't really kill you after all....
-Talking to the other new hire 4:30pm on Friday about all of the flaws of the company. Find out Monday at 10:00 that your talk might have really affected her because she called into to quit. Her reason for quitting...She told the owner the business was unstructured like the purchase order system..Ah, did I mention that to her while Xeroxing? Damn, I think I broke the new worker attitude rule.

In the end, I smuggled out some of these images of truly beautiful furniture pieces from the Virginian manufacturer, Stanley. Not only is the business environmentally conscious, the furniture is so lovely-did I already say that? I think I've found my first in-office crush! So help me lord, that I can ride this job just a bit longer... Until the day comes that I find that dream job I've always been looking for!