Work, work, work

It’s 9:40pm and I’ve only been in the house for an hour and a half-ish. I’m knackered. My eyes are tired, though the thick smoke due to me burning two chicken burgers may have something to do with this. This will be a short post as I need to finish some coursework and get to bed!

I started my new job today and re-discovered the joys of public transport as a result. As the only way to get to Halifax from my place would involve a bus into Bradford, and then back out again I got a lift from a very handy Kim who dropped me off near her work. This reduced the ride to one travel-sickness inducing bone-rattle.

Half an hour later and I stepped back into the fresh air, swallowig the saliva that had been building up as my stomach prepared to hurl its contents on the passenger in front of me. Mind you, he was bald anyway so it’d not have mattered much. Not like he’d have had to carefully prise bits of carrot out of long, flowing locks or anything.

The day went… slowly. I don’t know how you lot have found your first days at work, but in my experience (4 jobs and this has always been the case), at some point you end up sat at a desk while everyone else gets on with their work. You have nothing to do. You can’t exactly pull this month’s Bizarre out of your briefcase, or fire up Tetris on your new laptop.

Actually, I’d say the working day split into three – all the "welcome" bumph which was good. Then the middle bit, which wasn’t. Then the bit where I sat with my boss while he did some funky stuff with SQL and explained some things which was back to being good again.

Oh, and there was the pub at lunch time. This was definitely good. Thank you to Allen and Paul for taking me somewhere that sells Brown Ale on my first working day.

First impressions are pretty good. I’m not going to decry my previous employer (much), but you take one look at SSP and SoftSols looks positively cowboy outfit in comparison. Cleaner, better premises, bigger, nicer kit, fuller desks, busier, nicer cars out front… Given that both companies started at the same time and do the same kind of thing (but in different market areas), it’s astonishing how far apart they are.

My one gripe is not getting a car on my first day as I was promised. My boss is blaming HR, HR and saying it’s his responsibility. However, a quick chat with Roy at home time and he’s said it’ll be resolved tomorrow. I hope it is or my long weekend is somewhat buggered!

Well, that’s it folks. Sorry I’m not more witty or interesting, but I am wasted so I’ll have to end there. I’ll try and think up something funny to post tomorrow once my brain’s woken up.