Out On Research-Tour

... The Guys I Work For Are Great

or

Beer, Beer, Beer



This year I won´t waste my company´s money, I tell ya!

Three times I was sent to professional and hence expensive trainings on Adobe Flash (not three times the same one ;-) ... advancing, but when you can´t use it on the job, you just forget so much).
Useless since a job that once three people managed is now done by... me.
I never had the time to do much in Flash.

But I want to find or make the time! I don´t wanna "mark time"!

My Boss and Team-Leader are reasonable men and hence they agreed to my idea of finding some Tutorials and working through them by myself.
That´s how I got this job anyways!

Actually I come from "real architecture", times were/are hard and to make a difference I learned to present my Diploma back then in 2000 via a website, also using Flash (4).

Well, so, today (I had to sleep longer since work starts at 8), I let the car sit on the place I left it yesterday, grabbed my helmet, hopped on the bike and in about 10-15 minutes was at work, yay!!!!!
Eight hours I just sat there and looked for tutorials on Flash and Photoshop!

Tomorrow it´s Wolfsburg again, but Monday to Wednesday I´ll have that luxury again!

Mind you, apart from not putting my life on danger on the highway and looking for a parking-space, I can learn something new, escape the routine!

I don´t have to bring anything to drink - there is water, juice, Coke, (strangely also) beer and Sparkling Wine for free (guess I should leave the last two alone, though).

We will go out for lunch - the Company is in the heart of the city. I didn´t know that colleague, but he came asking if I wanna join - but I had brought (and eaten already) stupid everyday-bread.
Mind you... I didn´t want people to hate me right away, so I skipped carrots and bought bananas - and forgot them! Me! The one who starts shaking and shivering like crazy when having low sugar!

Luckily one of the executive directors (the one who couldn´t decide between beer or a footbath) happened to "walk by" a bakery and brought a huge load of strawberry-cake - he saved me!

Really, aren´t those guys pampered there?! I´m so jealous!

On the other hand... you hear few talking - and if just job-related, no laughing at all. No personal things around... not jealous on that.

Oh, but just the fact I wouldn´t need a stupid car...

Well, I´ll get kinda pampered next half week. Sadly one of my "old" and funny colleagues, who works there now, is still on holiday then. Can´t have everything, but am happy :-)

What about your job/colleagues/environment? Am I standard?