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The End, and The Beginning
Jan. 23rd, 2006 11:55 pmSo the first day of work today was so different from the last day of work on Friday.
The last day at AIM (I guess I can give their name now, since I'm not there anymore) was crazy, with lots of loose ends to tie up, my new boss finally having the revelation that he needed to learn a few things, and people coming up to tell me how much they would miss me.
I managed to wrap up as much as I could, and list out some of the things I'd never get to. Since most people trip out early on their last day, people were surprised I was still there at three, three thirty and four. We had one of our really rare items come in, so I got to teach the boss how to quality check it, much to the dismay of Zack who got an error for it.
I also had a chance to go to several other floors to say goodbye to people, including the cute cubby Brodie in Correspondence, and the good looking guys up in research. I guess I was on a good looking guy tour. Yep, I'm shallow sometimes.
So just before I was to leave, Risa wanted to sing to me. She's crazy and everyone knows it, and apparently she likes singing Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" to people who are leaving. Of course, she can't sing. I told here to wait, while i went to the restroom, and while I was in there, I changed into my Utilikilt. This was important to me as I was always the one in meetings about the dress code, would always say that there was nothing against a kilt in the code. I would mention, on my last day, I would wear a kilt to work.
So I chickened out a little bit and brought it to work and changed just before I would leave. When I exited the restroom, Risa had gotten a whole crowd around her for the karaoke and you can imagine the surprised look on their faces and others when I came out in the kilt. Risa sang one verse and that was over. I then walked around to my desk, walking past the meetingroom where the Vice Presidents were. I heard later that the were questioning what i was wearing in their meeting. Gina came out of the meeting and had to get a couple of pictures before I walked out of the door.
I then went to the happy hour where Screaming Amy was. About 25 people showed up to send me off, some, like John, getting royally drunk. Still, it was a great night, warm enough to stay on the patio, and to still here the words "I hope to leave AIM soon" from just about everyone there. I told Amy of her nickname in this journal and she just laughed. she hopes to move to Denver in April. I hope she gets there, because I know she's miserable.
Now at the new job this morning, I woke up a little later than I expected, but there was little traffic the way that I was going, somewhat away from civilization, so I got there with time to spare. I was first taken to get a new name badge and get fingerprinted. Apparently I'm a very difficult person to fingerprint as it took a few times to get good prints. Those will go off for my background check.
I met my HR specialist who informed me that the training class I would be joining has been meeting for a week. Some of it is information I already knew, like "what's a mutual fund?" but other things, like how do I log into the system?, that I've missed, so I'm a little lost. Still, I know more about the financial industry that the whole of the class, so that makes me not feel so out of it. My old company kept coming up, especially as we talked about statements and we had an AIM statement come up. on that, i was an expert.
So i had lunch at the big cafeteria in the building, and if I want, I can join the company gym. Two perks we've never had in Houston. i guess I'll have to take advantage. It's looking really good, though, just a little new kid in town jitters.
The last day at AIM (I guess I can give their name now, since I'm not there anymore) was crazy, with lots of loose ends to tie up, my new boss finally having the revelation that he needed to learn a few things, and people coming up to tell me how much they would miss me.
I managed to wrap up as much as I could, and list out some of the things I'd never get to. Since most people trip out early on their last day, people were surprised I was still there at three, three thirty and four. We had one of our really rare items come in, so I got to teach the boss how to quality check it, much to the dismay of Zack who got an error for it.
I also had a chance to go to several other floors to say goodbye to people, including the cute cubby Brodie in Correspondence, and the good looking guys up in research. I guess I was on a good looking guy tour. Yep, I'm shallow sometimes.
So just before I was to leave, Risa wanted to sing to me. She's crazy and everyone knows it, and apparently she likes singing Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" to people who are leaving. Of course, she can't sing. I told here to wait, while i went to the restroom, and while I was in there, I changed into my Utilikilt. This was important to me as I was always the one in meetings about the dress code, would always say that there was nothing against a kilt in the code. I would mention, on my last day, I would wear a kilt to work.
So I chickened out a little bit and brought it to work and changed just before I would leave. When I exited the restroom, Risa had gotten a whole crowd around her for the karaoke and you can imagine the surprised look on their faces and others when I came out in the kilt. Risa sang one verse and that was over. I then walked around to my desk, walking past the meetingroom where the Vice Presidents were. I heard later that the were questioning what i was wearing in their meeting. Gina came out of the meeting and had to get a couple of pictures before I walked out of the door.
I then went to the happy hour where Screaming Amy was. About 25 people showed up to send me off, some, like John, getting royally drunk. Still, it was a great night, warm enough to stay on the patio, and to still here the words "I hope to leave AIM soon" from just about everyone there. I told Amy of her nickname in this journal and she just laughed. she hopes to move to Denver in April. I hope she gets there, because I know she's miserable.
Now at the new job this morning, I woke up a little later than I expected, but there was little traffic the way that I was going, somewhat away from civilization, so I got there with time to spare. I was first taken to get a new name badge and get fingerprinted. Apparently I'm a very difficult person to fingerprint as it took a few times to get good prints. Those will go off for my background check.
I met my HR specialist who informed me that the training class I would be joining has been meeting for a week. Some of it is information I already knew, like "what's a mutual fund?" but other things, like how do I log into the system?, that I've missed, so I'm a little lost. Still, I know more about the financial industry that the whole of the class, so that makes me not feel so out of it. My old company kept coming up, especially as we talked about statements and we had an AIM statement come up. on that, i was an expert.
So i had lunch at the big cafeteria in the building, and if I want, I can join the company gym. Two perks we've never had in Houston. i guess I'll have to take advantage. It's looking really good, though, just a little new kid in town jitters.
