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Aug. 4th, 2004 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redwineisinstockso, the IT barbeque was tonight. Wasn't nearly as bad as I had expected, mostly due to the free booze. Its an interesting counterpoint to the finance evening I went to last week, IT has 400 people and I know 10 (with 5 of those being senior managers reporting to the CIO, so unhelpful for drunken conversation) and the other 5 being people I work directly with. On the other hand, of the 15 people who showed up to the pub for the finance thing, I knew all of them. Do you think there is something wrong here? Seriously, I have financial directors (with years of experience in finance) ringing me for advice on finance stuff. Either I'm seriously god like, or this is a weird job. Excuse my modesty, I'm going with the second one. I'm wondering, who would it freak out more than I want to hack my MP3 players code to get it work better....
Finance huh. Interesting career direction (I'm not calling it choice, I'm not sure any choice occured here)
However, I've been enjoying the last few days at work, because I get to port all of my settings etc over to a laptop (which I have admin rights to!) For those people either not versed in corporate speak, or those not into tech speak, this is a major win over the tech's) I think the arguement of, well, you can spend 3 hours porting all her prefs from the desktop to the laptop, or you can give her admin rights won over. However, this gives me access. I get to play. Boy I'm having fun. Quick poll, does this mean I'm doomed to IT forever?
So, in summary. I drank far too may barcadi breezers at the IT barbeque (so the car is still at work) and am somewhat resigned to my fate of being the resident tech geek in finance.
Finance huh. Interesting career direction (I'm not calling it choice, I'm not sure any choice occured here)
However, I've been enjoying the last few days at work, because I get to port all of my settings etc over to a laptop (which I have admin rights to!) For those people either not versed in corporate speak, or those not into tech speak, this is a major win over the tech's) I think the arguement of, well, you can spend 3 hours porting all her prefs from the desktop to the laptop, or you can give her admin rights won over. However, this gives me access. I get to play. Boy I'm having fun. Quick poll, does this mean I'm doomed to IT forever?
So, in summary. I drank far too may barcadi breezers at the IT barbeque (so the car is still at work) and am somewhat resigned to my fate of being the resident tech geek in finance.
