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It’s the strangest thing

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

First off, the lack of recent updates is due to 2 factors:

1. I’ve been busy with the new job and I don’t really talk about such things here.
2. Ariesna and I have started some seri­ous house hunt­ing. Well, to be per­fectly accu­rate we’ve seen a house we like and now we’re mort­gage hunting.

Still, while I won’t dis­cuss who I work for or what exactly I do for them on this site; I do have to share some thoughts that occur to me at the office. Which brings us back to the title of this post, it’s the strangest thing how dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies treat office sup­plies. In my old job, there was one sta­pler pro­vided to each depart­ment and it was always jeal­ously guarded. In the new job, I got a sta­pler given to me prac­ti­cally as soon as I walked in the door. In the old job, the newest com­put­ers gen­er­ally went to the peo­ple with the most senior­ity. In the new one, I got a brand new machine my first day while a co-worker who’s been here a while is still wait­ing to get a new one. In my old job, if you needed things like paper or pens or what­ever, you had to go ask one of the sec­re­taries to get it for you. In my new job, I was shown where to find things in the sup­ply closet on the first day.

Cor­po­rate cul­ture is really weird some­times, but at least here it’s weird in a good way.

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