Vicious office rumours spread quickly, and sure enough on the Tuesday morning as I limped with fragility into the office after a 2k trudge to work from the railway station in a collar and morning sun, I was greeted with a comedy name placard on my cubicle.
“Crash Kyd.”
It was all in good lol I’m sure, and I’m happy to feign toughness for the cause, but how embarrassing being the butt of an office joke on day three. Gosh.
The rest of the week’s been pretty cruisy in retrospect. I’ve been trained up in two departments, and my job title includes another one which I’ve also been wrapping my head around. G. James is unfortunately your typical large company in a transitional state between un-IT and standard policy and whatnot. At current there’s about a blousand systems all running different uninteroperable software, and it’s going to be a number of years until everything is standardised. There’s very little documentation for any of the existing systems, so I’ve taken it upon myself to document everything as I go which has made the process slower but steadier.
It’s quite overwhelming, but I’m confident with what I’ve learned so far. The only problem is that my workstation is using XP which is an obscenity, but the only real practical thing I can run without immeasurable stuffing around. It really makes me appreciate how far the Linux desktop has come, and it’s frustrating almost beyond words how difficult it is to do anything without decent tools.
Now the rain has abated I’ve started riding to work again. I figure there’s no point using public transport because it’s slow, obscenely expensive, and prone to simply not showing up. I’ve worked out that I can time my trips so that it only takes an hour, but when I can zip home on the bike in half that time with a favourable wind I don’t see why I’d bother.
Tomorrow is going to be a special logistical challenge and I just realised everything may be completely stuffed up due to my dismal financial state. I ought to go and work out what I’m going to do about that.