First day of work…

As you may already be able to tell, I will not be able to post messages during the day, or at least not as often as in the past. My office is not ready yet, so the next couple of days will be spent learning, asking questions, and meeting people.

Tomorrow I will have orientation with Human Resources. Once I get my security badge, parking stickers, benefits, payroll, and other crap set-up, then they can request computer access for me. That may take until Friday to get done. This place is security crazy. You can’t walk for more than 30 feet without having to use a badge to open a door, use the stairs, or open the elevator. You have to sign in twice to get into the building and they make you open your car trunk as you leave. This is the “don’t even think about it” security set-up.

I spent 99% of my day in my dad’s office and I will probably retain only about 40% of the things he taught me. On top of remembering all of the things I knew when I worked there previously, I have a lot to learn. I think once I am settled in my own space and am working on the daily stuff myself, I will learn quickly and can ask questions about the things I still need to learn. It is the odd-ball stuff that only happens every 2 months that I will need to pay attention to the most.

I met the Inventory Control Supervisor today. For all future purposes here (and there will be a lot) I will call him Barney. Barney now, or will soon, reports to me and there are 4 union employees who report to him. I have been told a lot of negative things about him, but for now I am keeping an open mind. We’re going to lunch on Wednesday. Today I gave him 3 things to do. Each time I would check back with him after 1 or 2 hours and by some amazing coincidence he had someone working on it at that exact moment that I checked on it (bullshit, achoo, bullshit).

There will definitely be lot’s to write about with this guy…