So I used to be saddened by smaller pay and less "perks" that Freescale used to offer compared to companies like AMD, Motorola, and especially Centaur, but no more!
The Senior VP of our division hosted a meeting and provided catering and even more importantly, provided free beer! Nothing like raising morale like a little alcohol at the end of the day. I suppose that's the perks of working for a division that actually makes profit for the company.
You know it's bad when the vending machine has a credit card reader on it...
...you know it's worse when you're probably gonna use it all the time because of this.
So I was getting pretty tired today at work, and I had passed this vending machine a few times on my way to the restroom so I decided I'd get myself some "liquid motivation" and when I approached this machine I noticed something special... it had a credit card reader. At first I thought, "How convenient!" because I barely ever carry cash. (I did happen to have cash at the moment though.) But then it hit me, I'm gonna be wasting ~$1.30/day. In the past, the lack of cash stopped me from getting drinks, which is good for my wallet, but even more importantly, good for my health. Now, nothing is stopping me other than my conscience, and well I'm admittedly pretty weak-willed when it comes to these kinds of things. It's little things like these that make Americans so damn obese as a nation. Oh well, at least I won't fall asleep on the job anymore (hopefully, *knock on wood*).
Yes, I know you get free drinks at work, Doug; I don't, so get over it. At least the coffee is free, I should probably drink that instead.
So I started my summer internship today. I have a really big cubical and a really big monitor for my workstation. Oddly enough however is that the thing that struck out the most to me is the chair.
In the past, I've always had some really cheap and generic office chair, but this summer my "office" (if you will) is decked out with a super pimp Herman Miller chair. It has so many damn controls I don't even know what to do with it. For example, I like to lean back in my chair. At home my chair can lean back and forth, but it can only lock in place in the fully upright position, which is fine, but this chair I can control how much I want it to go back and forth and I can lock it in place at like almost any angle.
As you can tell I'm quite a bit bored at work right now mostly cause I still don't have all my IT related stuff set up with yet, and my mentor already left for the day. I guess I better get back to reading the reference manual...