Joan of Arcadia 2x01-2x03

Haven't been keeping up with LJ lately, or I've been too lazy to comment mostly. Work is getting better, and slowly but (hopefully) surely, the nervousness is dying down. Although it still sort of freaks me out that there are going to be performance reviews and whatnot. Eep. And then thinking about bonuses and raises and promotions, and it is just horribly strange. I still miss the smallness of the bookstore and how there really wasn't a need for things like performance reviews because I was talking to the boss of the store everyday. Not like one goes around rubbing elbows with CEOs all the time.

And the people really are very nice. I probably sound like I'm damning them with faint praise... all the other people I interviewed with or informational interviewed with liked to emphasize working with brilliant people who were hard-working and incredibly smart, and I'm not saying that the people at the company aren't. But they're nice. The corporate culture feels nice. It's very strange for someone whose only other corporate experience has been ibanking, and I like it very much. People are helpful, and friendly, and don't perpetuate this culture in which you have to work yourself to death to ensure that you'll be kept on after two years of 100-hour weeks. And I'm starting to feel a little better because after I've pestered people to show me how to do things once or twice, I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. Hopefully I will not be too incompetent.

Also, my department issued a Spam award (for excellence in marketing, or some such), which is supremely cool because the award is actually a can of Spam (unopened) glued onto a wooden block with a plaque.

( JoA 2x01-2x03 )