Monthly Archive for May, 2009

2 More Days

Published
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Rosemary
on May 25, 2009
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Going to Melbourne to visit Ash soon.

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Almost a Month Already?

Published
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Rosemary
on May 15, 2009
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I can’t believe it’s already been three weeks since I started at Comrade. It’s been a whirlwind, but the busy-ness and energy and focus at the company is invigorating. In my first week I pushed out a website, a push page (HTML email template), did some Flash updates, and a couple of estimates. Adding to that list, since I started:

  • Two more push pages for different clients
  • Half a website (functionality client demo, next week is making it look sexy)
  • Another half-website for a different client (lots of multitasking here)
  • Plans for our company site redesign (no, it’s not a common thing, but I’ve had involvement in redesigns for Critical Mass, Applied Communications, and now Comrade as well)

Culture-wise, I’ve discovered several other areas of a good fit:

  • Communal oatmeal (I love oatmeal)
  • During my tour I noticed a couple of bottles of unopened gin. Today while looking for peanut butter I found some vodka, and this afternoon I was shown the beer fridge.
  • There is a Dreamcast, Wii, and Neo Geo in our lounge. We have DDR dance pads and Rock Band guitars and drums downstairs.
  • The company summer event includes an overnight stay at Kicking Horse, BBQ and rafting, but the part that makes me the most proud is a day’s worth of volunteering at the Mustard Seed.
  • Shared Japanese snacks!
  • Fun with action figures (I’ve been reassured that HR policies are pretty lenient and I can be my usual NSFW self. Won’t do it right away though.)
  • Everyone’s friendliness, honesty, willingness to collaborate, and drive to push out great work. We had a brainstorming session and it was inspiring and good-kind-challenging to hear aspirations of getting a Webby.

I’m even getting used to the tiny spoons that make me feel like an ogre whenever I use them!

Some vice triggers that I’m making a list right here to avoid overdoing include:

  • Starbucks everywhere! When they open a DeVille across the street I’m going to have to exercise my strongest discipline.
  • Manuel Latruwe and Bernard Callebaut also in walking distance.
  • Aforementioned bottles of my preferred spirits.
  • Sushi a block away too! They have amazing lunch specials for $9.50 or $10.50 and the food is really fresh and artfully prepared.

All in all, I really feel at home in my new position already. With our lunches out, outing to see Star Trek, and close-quartered collaborative work style it sometimes surprises me that it hasn’t even been a full month yet. Here’s to another two weeks of great work before I go to Australia to visit Ash and come back forgetting how to do simple tasks such as remembering my name.