Work People
Kampai!
Fri, 2010-01-01 00:01 | by Erin
Kampai!
Every year at work on the last day the big boss the big boss comes down and thanks us for our work through out the year. In a company of 3000+ people on 5 floors in 3 different buildings this can take quite a long time. Last year I waited till 830 or 9 and he still did not make it to our office.
This year we were first, or second. I am not a star struck kind of person. I know he puts on his pants the same way I do, but I have to admit I was impressed when he showed up and with the way he thanked us. It takes allot to impress me, but for some reason he always does. I get a real sense of purpose from his words and actions, which is strange because I really do not know him at all.
Every year at work on the last day the big boss the big boss comes down and thanks us for our work through out the year. In a company of 3000+ people on 5 floors in 3 different buildings this can take quite a long time. Last year I waited till 830 or 9 and he still did not make it to our office. This year we were first, or second. I am not a star struck kind of person. I know he puts on his pants the same way I do, but I have to admit I was impressed when he showed up and with the way he thanked us. It takes allot to impress me, but for some reason he always does. I get a real sense of purpose from his words and actions, which is strange because I really do not know him at all.
Daytime Drinking
Thu, 2009-10-15 13:00 | by Erin
Day Time DrinkingI was down in the office at a data center that I work at frequently. There was a bag of cans on the floor getting ready for recycling. I took a closer look and noticed a couple of cans of Coke, and some energy drinks, but then I saw 3 - 4 500ml cans of beer.
Apparently I am not the only one frustrated with our current situation, or maybe some one was just "enjoying there work" a little more then the rest of us.
Either way it was not me!
Hattin the haters. Hi Nigel!
Sun, 2009-03-01 22:32 | by Erin
A LOT of people do not like me.
Nigel is a guy I use to work with who really hates me. I am not sure why. One day things were fine, the next he just wouldn't talk to me. I think the boss liked me more than him, or he did not like the fact that I was hanging out with other guys in on our team.
What ever the reason, he quit to move back to England citing his frustration with Japan as the reason. Now about every couple of months I get a mail from my blog system that says, someone new has signed up for a account and I need to approve them. Lots of times it is someone who actually wants a account or just someone trying to get a account to make some blog link spam.
But every once and a while it is Nigel. I mean the evidence is always so obvious. He always uses my name or someone else who we both know or some rude word in Japanese along with my work email address. This blog is not so popular, so I personally approve every account, and catch him every time.
One time I even went as far to tracking down the IP, which lead me to a school. sagamihara-kng.ed.jp I called the school and asked for him and the person on the phone said he was not available. I asked if he worked there and they said yes.
The 9 months of my life. PART 1
Fri, 2008-09-12 23:32 | by Erin
So it is finished.
There is allot of things I have been neglecting over the past 6-9
months. This blog is one of them.
About 2 years ago I saw the first boss I had in Tokyo in the lobby of the building I work in.
He said "You finally made it."
"The only people who believed I could not do it were you and my wife." I replied.
In some ways I regret that statement, even though it was true. About my former boss, I owe him allot. I was in a pretty messed up place when we met and he helped me out, allot.
When we met I had nothing. He recognized my talent but later did not exactly know how to apply it. None the less he gave me a good salary and in addition and set me up in a place in Tokyo. No small feat at that time because just getting a place, a tiny 1 bedroom apartment took almost 5000 American dollars, and involved jumping through more hoops than a circus seal. He fronted it all for me and managed me paying him back out of my salary over 6-7 months.
I left that job after 9 months. I learned allot during that period, mostly about Linux and Linux based systems, but also about who I was and would become. My boss I think learned allot as well. About me and about dealing with non-japanese employees, who were not afraid to loose everything and starting again. I am sure that his whole office is better off for all the shit him and I went through together.
Flash back to today. This week I migrated my last servers out of a VERY costly data center. To a more cost efficient situation closer to the office I work at.
