Yesterday was my first day of work at ThoughtWorks. This Friday will be my first time trying to figure out how to fill out my timesheet/ expense sheet.
First day: lots of listening to presentations. Lots of filling out and signing papers. Presentation from Legal on open source participation (do it. and for gods sakes tell us what you're doing), review of read before you sign (anything, but especially anything a client hands you- and call Legal before you sign it), got our building badges (but don't bring them to India and lose them!)
Sessions ran from 9am to ~5pm. Getting the RSA on our new laptops set up was the most error-prone part...
Yeah they gave us laptops. As a dev, I had a choice between a macbook pro, and some kind of Dell... I chose the macbook and I'm a little giddy. I've never had a mac because macs are bloody expensive. It's not actually mine... it's on lease... but I get to use it! And it is pretty. Analysts can't have the pro, they only get the regular... maybe because devs theoretically need faster computers. I'm not sure that the mild resentment is worth the cost savings...? Eh, it's not that bad.
One guy is using his mac air instead... usually not allowed to use your own but he got some kind of deal working with 8600 (8600 is tech support. Awesome name.)
New Hire Lunch was tasty. Pizza. I guess they order from that place a lot.