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robotech_master) wrote2003-03-11 12:24 pm
robotech_master) wrote2003-03-11 12:24 pm
Lunch break
I'm here at MCI on lunchbreak; I've eaten lunch in their cafeteria and have about fifteen minutes left. I'll make this entry short so I have time to check my email.
I've discovered that the Java telnet client I set up on my Linux box's webspace works pretty well. Maybe not perfectly, but good enough for checking the mail. A downside is that these personal-use terminals only allow one browser window to be open at once, so I can't update my LJ and have a terminal open at the same time, but oh well. It's much better than I could do at Kmart.
It's funny...what with Kmart and now MCI, this is the second company for which I've worked that experienced a much-publicized bankruptcy.
Got our photos taken yesterday for our ID badges, and the badges were handed out just before lunch. It's a decent picture; at least it looks like me. :) I'm looking forward to this job, I think.
I'm certainly impressed by the level of training we're being given. Four weeks, then a couple weeks phone bay "apprenticeship." Kmart, I was lucky if they gave me one day before turning me loose on the floor. I think this is going to be a good deal, if I can make it last.
That's all I have time for; more from home tonight, maybe.
I've discovered that the Java telnet client I set up on my Linux box's webspace works pretty well. Maybe not perfectly, but good enough for checking the mail. A downside is that these personal-use terminals only allow one browser window to be open at once, so I can't update my LJ and have a terminal open at the same time, but oh well. It's much better than I could do at Kmart.
It's funny...what with Kmart and now MCI, this is the second company for which I've worked that experienced a much-publicized bankruptcy.
Got our photos taken yesterday for our ID badges, and the badges were handed out just before lunch. It's a decent picture; at least it looks like me. :) I'm looking forward to this job, I think.
I'm certainly impressed by the level of training we're being given. Four weeks, then a couple weeks phone bay "apprenticeship." Kmart, I was lucky if they gave me one day before turning me loose on the floor. I think this is going to be a good deal, if I can make it last.
That's all I have time for; more from home tonight, maybe.