Well this is out last week in Sydney, and therefore my last week in work. Which of course is a happy moment, but as Simon will agree. After eventually really disliking the job i got to know the people i worked with and got on with them really well. Me and Nick would always have our mini arguements but that was part of us being seen as the other married couple. Pete and Brendan being the other not Pete and Michelle. Because of the quiz night Simon got to know them as well so i would consider them more as friends not work colleagues and really i dont think the amount of work we did could amount to much. Its strange how having lunch and doing the quick and doing the cyptic crossword will take a couple of hours. My last couple of days was even slacker because as they had been taken over by a bigger company, we were supposedly packing te office up, which we didnt do. I did however put all the old newspapers away into a bag for recycling, which accidently i put in the last days paperwork and we hadnt done the crossword. Major crime. Now that was considered a major crime, but Nick topped this and was sentanced to solitude because we discovered that he had already started the crossword on the train and did the target, on my last day. He tried to say someone at the newsagent must of done it and then put the crossword back. We were all pretty disgusted by this and we just could not get into the mode of crossword answering - pretty serious stuff this :-) We gave him a guilt trip all day and as we pointed out the fact that i had threw the paper away originally and had to rummage threw the papers to get it back gave him a perfectly good reason to buy a new paper and nobody would have been any the wiser to his crimes. Wally.
When i did eventually leave the all gave me a hug which was nice. Im going to particular miss Michelle as it was so nice working with a woman for a change and even though she was the bosses wife, she didnt act like it, so i didnt feel threatened by her.
They have also said that if we come back to Australia that they would put in a damn good word for us in this new company and if its in 3 years time when they have made there millions, we can then work for there new company. Which really as they are going to have millions each im not really sure what that would be.
Definatly end of a strange work life for me: I learnt a lot of things:
- Technical skills, Microsoft V Apple
- justified (again) that developers are pain in the butts at times,
- learnt that companies do succeed and have happy endings (tainted by the kms era),
- I tried to to play a part in doing the SMH crossword, i have even learnt how to do cyptic crosswords as well.
- learnt that there are some very intelligent people in the world and i think most of them worked in my office, and i therefore was the dippy english girl, who they loved taking the mick of, accent wise.
- I also and this one is for Grandma, Win and Bern, learnt that when i say words that begin with H i miss the letter H off. No wonder people dont understand me.
- I learnt that http://www.thesuperficial.com/ is a good site to get gossip from
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