Oh you haul sixteen tons...
Aug. 29th, 2006 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI have a really long post to make about my new job. I was going to write it tonight, because in theory, I have plenty of time when I get home to write posts, now that I finish work at 4pm instead of 5pm.
Of course, that all got flushed rather spectacularly when both metros broke down, one after the other, in the order in which I had to take them to get home, naturally. I don't know how long it's supposed to take me to get home after work, but I estimate it should take a little over an hour. Today, I was stuck in public transit for THREE HOURS.
Let me tell you, kids, Phnee was not a happy camper. Especially as there was, to put it euphemistically, a fairly pressing biological imperative for me to get home. Bah.
I'm heading to bed early again. However, I know some of you are dying to know (*cough*) what's going on in the ever-so-fascinating life of Phnee, so here are the salient points:
1- Public transit is annoying. See rant above.
2- So far the new job looks promising. The bosses are pretty cool all told, and I think that I will get along just fine with the boss with whom I'll be most in contact. He has a temperament that seems close to mine in terms of his work ethic, although he doesn't have the same kind of sense of humour as I do. Still, he seems like a nice, down-to-earth guy with high standards, which I can definitely work with.
3- The girl who's training me is one step above Completely Useless. She can do her job well enough, for someone who herself has had very little training. However, she's nineteen years old (a total baby), and has *no* idea how to go about training someone else. I foresee that I will essentially have to train myself for the most part. Well, I've done that before and I can do it again. I just feel more comfortable when I'm stepping into a well-defined role. Oh well.
4- I am amused that I work for a renovation company which is currently situated in an office that looks like a demolition crew was by recently. Granted, they just moved in less than two months ago and summer is the busiest time of year, so they haven't had a chance to fix up the place. Still, I am amused. There's an expression for it in French: Le cordonnier mal chaussé. I think the English equivalent is "The shoemaker's children go barefoot," or something. Anyway.
5- Public transit is annoying.
6- The HDFA went back without a hitch yesterday. I already miss my car. See rant above. However, I am being good for the environment, if not my current stress levels. Go me.
In other news, I am reading The Sparrow for book club (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curtana, it's been put off to next Wednesday, if you're still interested), and it is breaking my heart. I'm a little over halfway through and it's already reduced me to tears twice.
It's also, I can feel it, going to make me completely re-evaluate my relationship with God. This is going to be one of those Important Books for me, I think. Something to re-read, if I can handle the emotional trauma of all those beautiful, wonderful, extraordinary characters dying, one by one, as I watch. I can' t even imagine how hard it must have been for the author to kill them all off. Gah.
Incidentally, I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that. You know they're dead when the book starts. Also, I have (as yet) no idea how they die, so I'm just speculating.
Okay. Gotta go to bed now. I have to be up quite early tomorrow in order to catch the relevant mode of public transport to work.
Of course, that all got flushed rather spectacularly when both metros broke down, one after the other, in the order in which I had to take them to get home, naturally. I don't know how long it's supposed to take me to get home after work, but I estimate it should take a little over an hour. Today, I was stuck in public transit for THREE HOURS.
Let me tell you, kids, Phnee was not a happy camper. Especially as there was, to put it euphemistically, a fairly pressing biological imperative for me to get home. Bah.
I'm heading to bed early again. However, I know some of you are dying to know (*cough*) what's going on in the ever-so-fascinating life of Phnee, so here are the salient points:
1- Public transit is annoying. See rant above.
2- So far the new job looks promising. The bosses are pretty cool all told, and I think that I will get along just fine with the boss with whom I'll be most in contact. He has a temperament that seems close to mine in terms of his work ethic, although he doesn't have the same kind of sense of humour as I do. Still, he seems like a nice, down-to-earth guy with high standards, which I can definitely work with.
3- The girl who's training me is one step above Completely Useless. She can do her job well enough, for someone who herself has had very little training. However, she's nineteen years old (a total baby), and has *no* idea how to go about training someone else. I foresee that I will essentially have to train myself for the most part. Well, I've done that before and I can do it again. I just feel more comfortable when I'm stepping into a well-defined role. Oh well.
4- I am amused that I work for a renovation company which is currently situated in an office that looks like a demolition crew was by recently. Granted, they just moved in less than two months ago and summer is the busiest time of year, so they haven't had a chance to fix up the place. Still, I am amused. There's an expression for it in French: Le cordonnier mal chaussé. I think the English equivalent is "The shoemaker's children go barefoot," or something. Anyway.
5- Public transit is annoying.
6- The HDFA went back without a hitch yesterday. I already miss my car. See rant above. However, I am being good for the environment, if not my current stress levels. Go me.
In other news, I am reading The Sparrow for book club (
curtana, it's been put off to next Wednesday, if you're still interested), and it is breaking my heart. I'm a little over halfway through and it's already reduced me to tears twice.It's also, I can feel it, going to make me completely re-evaluate my relationship with God. This is going to be one of those Important Books for me, I think. Something to re-read, if I can handle the emotional trauma of all those beautiful, wonderful, extraordinary characters dying, one by one, as I watch. I can' t even imagine how hard it must have been for the author to kill them all off. Gah.
Incidentally, I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that. You know they're dead when the book starts. Also, I have (as yet) no idea how they die, so I'm just speculating.
Okay. Gotta go to bed now. I have to be up quite early tomorrow in order to catch the relevant mode of public transport to work.
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Date: 2006-08-30 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-30 03:03 am (UTC)Did you hear that Warner Bros. is making a movie out of the book?
Date: 2006-08-30 03:28 am (UTC)Ick. I'm not particularly impressed with the book's premises and theme.
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Date: 2006-08-30 01:37 pm (UTC)Not impressed with the books premises and theme? In what way?
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Date: 2006-08-30 03:24 pm (UTC)As for the books, well, I don't want to spoil the thing for
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Date: 2006-08-30 04:27 pm (UTC)I can't speak for the sequel as I only found out via this comment thread that there is one. However -- by ethical framework do you mean the fact that the book contains Jesuits? (which, it does) Or that it tries to foist a specific religious belief on the reader? (which, it doesn't.) Or something else entirely? I gather the second from your reference to the Celestine Prophecy, and if that's the case, you're missing out on a really good book based on a very narrow interpretation of it (I have a hard time imagining *how* you'd draw a particular religious message from it, and if you did what that message would be).
The author and I embrace contrary philosophies.
Date: 2006-08-30 11:49 pm (UTC)I don't want to get too into it, because
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Date: 2006-08-30 03:58 am (UTC)How did the bank take your quitting? I wanna hear about THAT story.
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Date: 2006-08-30 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-30 06:20 pm (UTC)HRH made a very similar observation to me thr first week he started. He proceeded to whip the warehouse into shape, which of course earned him the worship of various persons on the team, and the new responsibility of being Warehouse Guy.