Twentysomething

Right down to the bus rides, the cafeteria and the social interactions.  It’s all about cliques, and as the new kid, the n00b, the grunt, I’m transported back to reactions and emotions that I thought had long been extinct.

The ergonomics team came to my work area (glorified cube) over the weekend.  Yes, the company has a team dedicated to ergonomics.

I love the crazies – they're mostly the harmless, mumbling gobbledeegook types, but then there are the rancid aggressive alcoholic types too.

The thing I like most is that you can search for tags in different places and compare how different cultures and geographies feel about the same idea.

I know that there's a delicate balance for a newbie in figuring things out for yourself and asking the right questions so you're not the pig in the pipe – i.e. the bottleneck that reinvents the wheel.

So take that and add in a bunch of corporate systems that needs learning, and acronyms – my goodness people love acronyms around here – and processes and all the other junk and I'm pretty much working straight through the day.