The amount of bureaucracy in this office is astounding. IT guy for what is now our division has agreed with our original IT guy (as in, before the merge) to clandestinely provide a 2nd desktop + KVM because, once all the computers get re-imaged to the new company's standards, he won't even be able to install FileZilla or similar — which he only needs to use 5–10 times a day…
Incredible.
That was one hell of an after-work tasting. World class wines, whiskies, cognac…absolutely brilliant.
Penfolds Magill: less than 150 bottles left in HK, 3 opened for the tasting. So in demand that Penfolds’ own regional rep staff trade it in-office. Apparently their job depends on it. Huh.
@kdfrawg It’ll be an easy week as I get settled in, but it’ll pick up: my boss is actually switching to part time work in the next 2 weeks, so I’ll have to take over a lot of what she currently does.
Nice to be at work with people I know and, for the most part, like. Makes things so much easier.
Slowly I’ll have to get to know the others though.
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Thought this was just going to be a family dinner.
There’re people here I don’t remember, family friends I suppose. Not appreciating the “You’re back!”s. At all.
@matigo "Sommelier" generally refers to a (justifiably) glorified waiter.
My job is almost exclusively online. Think of it more as consulting on an individual basis, e.g. a client wants to throw a party in 2 weeks, has organised food, but needs x bottles of wine — my job is then to come up with a list, get it approved, then contact our many suppliers to negotiate pricing and delivery etc.
I would never have accepted a sommelier offer. Too much standing around, too much face-to-face interaction. In this job, where my boss gets intimidated by ordinary English prose just because it's in a monospaced font, I can surround myself with text files and not be disturbed.