Week 1: Whew.
Aug. 2nd, 2008 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamSo I'm back from week 1 of training for work at the main campus. By happy coincidence, the company picnic was this week -- very similar in a lot of ways to the company picnic of a different company that I went to last summer, but I feel like the big philosophical difference was that this one was held on a weekday...
They filled me and the other engineers starting this week with terrifying statistics that we're not allowed to talk about, pretty awesome stuff in both the "dude!" way and the inciting-awe way. Also filled us with delicious food -- I feel thoroughly spoiled. Favorites included the pesto pizza with beef, some sort of fried banana concoction, char su bao (pardon my probable misspelling), peach/strawberry crepes, and an incredibly classy bacon-stuffed-meatloaf (I am completely serious about all parts of that).
I start at my real office on Monday -- orientation did make me a little bit less nervous about everything, I think. At least it convinced me that they don't *expect* me to know everything about everything right off the bat -- or helped me believe that a little more. (Gave it the ring of truthiness?) I'm actually pretty psyched -- the folks on my project are pretty excited about it, and I guess that's rubbing off. Sweet.
They filled me and the other engineers starting this week with terrifying statistics that we're not allowed to talk about, pretty awesome stuff in both the "dude!" way and the inciting-awe way. Also filled us with delicious food -- I feel thoroughly spoiled. Favorites included the pesto pizza with beef, some sort of fried banana concoction, char su bao (pardon my probable misspelling), peach/strawberry crepes, and an incredibly classy bacon-stuffed-meatloaf (I am completely serious about all parts of that).
I start at my real office on Monday -- orientation did make me a little bit less nervous about everything, I think. At least it convinced me that they don't *expect* me to know everything about everything right off the bat -- or helped me believe that a little more. (Gave it the ring of truthiness?) I'm actually pretty psyched -- the folks on my project are pretty excited about it, and I guess that's rubbing off. Sweet.
