I have moved from a mid-sized firm in a big shiny building downtown, to a smallish firm in a smaller shiny building not downtown. In one of my interviews with another firm, someone asked me how important it was for me to remain downtown. I responded that it was not at the top of my priority list--which is true, I could not care less about the "prestige" of working downtown.
When I walked in on Friday, I was given the tour and shown to my office. They told me that my computer was all set up and that I could start figuring it all out. I looked around, saw a monitor and a little box that looked like an external hard-drive, but no computer. Hmmm, that's odd. But I hit the keyboard, and indeed, my computer was functional. Turns out that little 8" x 8" x 3" box was the computer. The mac is very intuitive, and I think I'll adapt quickly.
Later Big Boss and two of the junior partners took me to a nice Italian place for lunch. I may have had the best manicotti in the world. The lunch was very relaxed and comfortable--which surprised me, because I am generally tense at business lunches--especially at places with excessive numbers of forks.
Throughout the day, everyone in the office came by and introduced themselves--I was at my old firm for 2 years, and there were still people I had never spoken with.
But how is this for bizarre? I was fiddling around with the screensaver and wallpaper, when I clicked on the "photos" folder--and found my facebook profile pic. How the heck did that get there? I certainly wasn't facebooking on my first day on the job. DH says he has a program that hooks into his outlook and searches the net for photos of his contacts--so I guess that is a possibility. But my work computer doesn't use outlook, and I didn't see anything like that in my email program (not that I was looking).
I also wouldn't be surprised at all if they googled me and found my facebook profile (it's locked, but you may be able to see the picture). But why would they do this on my computer, and why would they save the profile pic? Very strange--I will definitely ask IT guy about this next week.
4 comments:
you could try searching your name on google picture search, and seeing if it comes up.
Hope it's going well :-) Look forward to updates:-)
So???? What happened with the picture mystery? Did you talk to the IT guy?
I did ask IT guy and he said he did it--didn't really explain why. He's kind of strange in a typical IT guy kind of way, but not creepy strange, so I'm not really worried.
RJ, I did the Google image search. I don't come up. There are a couple of others with my name who do. One in a bikini holding a beer. Not really the professional image I would choose to portray, but I would be ok if someone mistook her rockin' bod for mine ;)
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