Archive for March, 2006
Forgot to tell me about casual Friday
My boss forgot to mention that Humana has a “casual Friday” policy. So I bop in to work this morning wearning slacks and tie, while every single person on my team is in jeans. Including my boss.
I quickly took off the tie but there was nothing I could do about the rest of […]
Beautiful Day
Wow, it was an amazingly nice day today. It started out kind cool, I had to wear a jacket to work. But when I stepped outside to grab lunch it was absolutely beautiful weather–bright blue sky, calm winds, temps in the upper 60’s/low 70’s range.
The kind of day that makes me […]
Got my first portlet to run today
Took a surprising amount of detective work, and the help of two co-workers, to get my first “Hello, World” portlet running today. Amazing how difficult this stuff is, though I guess that complexity does offer potential for flexibility.
I don’t know if this is a weakness just of the Oracle Portal product or the general […]
Rex’s farewell lunch
Rex’s farewell lunch
Originally uploaded by sMoRTy71.
Smorty posted some photos from my going-away lunch last week.
First day orientation
So yesterday was my first day at Humana. What they do is have an all-day “on-boarding” session where you learn a bit about how to select benefits (401K, medical, etc.) and a bit about the culture. There was about 25 of us in this particular session, though they said that some Mondays they’ve […]
What’s a Mercedes CLS 500 doing at KMart?
When I start work at Humana next week I will have to seriously upscale my wardrobe, going from the casual dress at CNET to a business professional environment. So I was at the nearby KMart picking up some of the various accoutrements–hangers, lint brush, etc. And I noticed that the car I parked […]
Weird to still have access to the network
I was told that when an employee leaves CNET voluntarily, as I did, that they don’t terminate all your logins and email accounts until the next business day. So since I left on a Friday, that means my account is still active until Monday.
Knowing that was the case, before I left on Friday I […]
Is there any point to an exit interview?
So I had my exit interview yesterday. Here at CNET it’s entirely optional so I could have just declined. But I figured I should share my thoughts and motivations for leaving.
The woman who interviewed me was very nice, she at least pretended to be writing down notes. Couldn’t really tell for sure […]
Email as address book cleanser
This morning I spammed out a bunch of people in my address book, letting them know that I was leaving CNET. The Exchange server here at work has been slowly reporting back the delivery failures.
I’m thinking if the email address I have for a person is no longer valid, I should probably just remove […]
Two weird things
Twinkie tagged me to post 6 weird things about myself. Now I definitely have more than six weird things, but I’m not sure I want to share them all with the whole interweb. So here’s two, and I’ll get back to you on the other four.
1. I love Celine Dion. Yes it’s […]