Wednesday, March 23, 2005
You know what would be a funny movie? A movie about a guy who moves from company to company just to see how much time he could be in training.
At my current job, I'm in my third week of four weeks of training. At my last job, I had two weeks of training and never made it past the transitional queue. The job that I had before that one had a training program that was easily tackled in three or four days. Of course, I saw some guys stretch it out for a couple of weeks. (Of course, it was all on computer and you pretty much ran at your own pace.) There is a guy in my class that has a job offer that he could start at in a couple of weeks. There will be several weeks of training there as well.
I'm sure that some sort of "Office Space" style comedy would be possible.
I've been feeling pretty inadequate at my new job lately. There are a lot of guys with college degrees. (Heck, I have to think about how to SPELL college.) And here am I. Just some guy who just watches Tech TV. Or used to watch it. Now, it's all about video games. I don't play video games. So my main source of tech knowledge ended about a year ago.
Then the lady that actually runs her own business online asked me today, "Are an Xbox and a PlayStation 2 the same thing?" Then we also had a ten minute conversation why you would want to have that AOL for broadband service.
Suddenly I don't feel so stupid.
Today's funniest comment came while we were discussing stealing cable. Sometimes when you move into a house the cable company forgets to turn it off the cable from the previous resident. Some people actually end up getting years of free cable. It was then that one of my classmates decided to inform us all that he "had gas for three months." Only two of us in the class laughed.
Now I have to figure out what everybody was talking about today.
At my current job, I'm in my third week of four weeks of training. At my last job, I had two weeks of training and never made it past the transitional queue. The job that I had before that one had a training program that was easily tackled in three or four days. Of course, I saw some guys stretch it out for a couple of weeks. (Of course, it was all on computer and you pretty much ran at your own pace.) There is a guy in my class that has a job offer that he could start at in a couple of weeks. There will be several weeks of training there as well.
I'm sure that some sort of "Office Space" style comedy would be possible.
I've been feeling pretty inadequate at my new job lately. There are a lot of guys with college degrees. (Heck, I have to think about how to SPELL college.) And here am I. Just some guy who just watches Tech TV. Or used to watch it. Now, it's all about video games. I don't play video games. So my main source of tech knowledge ended about a year ago.
Then the lady that actually runs her own business online asked me today, "Are an Xbox and a PlayStation 2 the same thing?" Then we also had a ten minute conversation why you would want to have that AOL for broadband service.
Suddenly I don't feel so stupid.
Today's funniest comment came while we were discussing stealing cable. Sometimes when you move into a house the cable company forgets to turn it off the cable from the previous resident. Some people actually end up getting years of free cable. It was then that one of my classmates decided to inform us all that he "had gas for three months." Only two of us in the class laughed.
Now I have to figure out what everybody was talking about today.
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