Vick12
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006, 12:22 PM
QUOTE (turd ferguson @ Wednesday, April 5th, 2006, 12:14 PM)

Ok, here goes. Sorry if this is boring.
So, I've been working in this warehouse for the last year and a half or so for a Lockheed Martin program, but I've been employed by a subcontractor. Anyway, Lockheed finally got around to hiring me for a salary position which means I take a cut in pay, but I get benefits and all that crap. That means that I have to go up to the main Lockheed place in Sunnyvale (Bay area) for orientation.
Normally I would fly up there and rent a car, but I've done that before and it's just a hassle to deal with the flights and rental car people. None of them speak english, and it's pretty annoying. It's only about a five hour drive anyway so I decide to do that instead. Plus I get like $0.40 for every mile put on my car. Sweet deal. A friend of mine has some time off so he decides to tag along and keep me company.
I know it's pretty boring so far, but that was all necessary background info. Anyhow, we get to the hotel at around 9:00 after driving in the ****ing rain for five and a half hours and check in. Immediately we go to Taco Bell and then out for a beer run. Long story short, we consume mass quantities of both, and I got to sleep around 4:00.
I wake up at 6:00, and do a piss poor job of ironing my shirt. I don't wear dress clothes. Ever. I had to go buy a pair of pants and dress socks. I already had some cheapo shoes that I got from PayLess a couple years ago, and a crappy dress shirt that had a pretty nice ink stain on the shoulder. So picture this: an awkward, tall, skinny, no hair cut/no comb having, no shaving, no nice clothes purchasing loser about to start his first day at a mult-billion dollar company. That's me in a nutshell.
I show up for the orientation, and it's raining pretty good. I forget to wear a jacket. I'm the only one in shortsleeves. I also forgot my paperwork so that puts me behind the other ten people there already. It takes me forever to fill everything out because I'm still dazed and on two hours of sleep. My new employers are not amused. Anyway, I fill out all those stupid forms and we go to a room with a bunch of tables and a podium set up. We all take our seats and fill out our nametags. I write, "Inmate #803029" on mine. Once again, employer is not amused.
Anyway, this bitch in charge of the orientation gets behind the podium and starts this slide show about how great Lockheed Martin is. I go get a big chocolate muffin and an orange juice from the food table in the room. I then proceed to spill a good amount of juice on my already stained white shirt, and get muffin crumbs all over the table and floor. After rambling on for about a half hour the orientator lady puts on a movie about workplace ethics, and I hit a brick wall. I get so ****ing drowsy it's ridiculous. I try to stay awake, but my head just falls on the desk and I pass out for about fifteen minutes or so. She goes back to talking after the movie is over, and I drift in and out of consciousness for the next few hours. She had to come wake me up at one point, and I muttered something incoherent in her direction. Later I tried to explain that I was sick, but it didn't go over very well. She told my manager.
After that we had lunch with our respective bosses, and I managed to not embarrass myself too much in spite of my physical appearance. Then we went over to the security building where we were to get our pictures taken for our ID badges. Bad news. I look like a homeless person, and these badges have to be worn around our necks at all times. I make a really stupid face because I wasn't ready, and it came out even worse than expected. It's one of my worst all time pictures. After that, the security guy talked at us for another half and hour, and I fell asleep again. That was pretty much the end of my day.
My friend and I drove home later that afternoon, and listened to 80's heavy metal the whole way. I got yesterday off because I told my boss that I would be driving home on Tuesday. Pretty tricky, eh? I played poker at two different games. -$500 in one, and +$340 in the other. Meh. Anyway, that's about it. Sorry it's so long. I'm sure there are one million typos.
Turd all I can say is...NH!
In fact I am updating my sig just because of you...