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The Test

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June 9, 2005

Ok, my first day (of on-the-job training) went ok. I actually thought it was kinda fun.

Thing is… tomorrow there’s a test. So all night I’ve been reading up on the manual – actually input it myself into powerpoint to help me retain some of the information. So I’m the browner who has the colour presentation when everybody else has the ‘photocopied 80 million times’ version of the same thing.

I typed up all the questions for the test, and all the answers of course. If you don’t have 90% on this thing, apparently you’re toast.

So I’ve been studying all night and now I’m gonna have my snookey ask me the questions. When I get to work early tomorrow morning, I’ll try to answer the questions without looking (since I’ve got them all typed up anyway).

Tomorrow the job starts at 9:00 instead of 8:45. I left at 8:00 this morning and I was there by 8:06. Isn’t that fabulous? Now I’m not overly concerned about whether I hear from job #2 from yesterday cuz this place is so close.

And the company seems very into promoting from within, and has lots of perks and benefits. I like that. It’s been years since I worked for a huge company that actually gave something to the employees. We’ll see how I feel after I’m actually doing the job.

Right now my outlook is optimistic. Although half the people who were there with me today were stinking pen clickers, or pen tappers, or leg jigglers. I was asking people to stop. Not a great thing on your first day – but I wish the hell they’d just stop it – stupid fucks. It’ll make me look like some kind of psychotic, anal asshole if I keep asking these people to stop clicking their pens.

Go ahead, do this little exercise to yourself… click click, click click, click click, click click, click click click, click, click click, click click, click click, click, click click click.

Once you’ve repeated that exercise about 5 times, then ask yourself if fucking pen clicking doesn’t drive you off the edge.

WTF?

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