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First week at work

It's Friday evening at last! It's been a steep learning curve (I was meant to be trained in two days when a lot more than that is needed) but I think I have it all pretty much sussed now. I still have a bad chest infection so I've been feeling pretty knackered at the end of the day, and it's embarrassing hacking away in the office. Not that I'm the only one but I think I'm the worst. I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow.

Anyway. This Rugby World Cup things that's on has resulted in different Auckland suburbs being assigned teams to support (e.g. Remuera is Scotland) and at least one car in ten flying national flags, or in our case because we have a crap flag, a black one with a silver fern on it. Several offices I've been in have different branches or departments doing the same thing in a company competition, and where I'm working that's the case too.

They went all out today at work. Examples:

'Russians' were dressed as ballet dancers in white tutus (the hairy-legged men too). They were a bizarre sight lined up on the roadside buying coffees from a van mind-morning.
'Australians' were in akubras (Aussie hats), some of them festoooned with corks. They also had an electric barbie in the lunch room at lunch time, frying up sausages and onions.
'Canadians' were dressed as lunberjacks. If they sang the Lumberjack Song, I didn't hear it.
'Japanese' were in martial art gear.

My department, meant to be Romania, just has decorations and a flag up; they say they're too busy to do anything else. They blew up far too many balloons though and the things are all over the place, collecting in rubbery drifts in corners. :-P

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Missed opportunity to dress in gipsy costumes...

I know! I could manage it without buying anything too but I didn't even know people were dressing up today. It's not much fun though if the others don't do it.

In a previous job we programmers all decided to go as Mafiosi the next day. So I drove to work in black shirt and suit and white tie and black fedora with white band, getting funny looks from other drivers. I even had some castor sugar in little bags in my briefcase to slyly reveal to others. Was anyone else dressed up? Noooooo. I didn't mind that much because we got a lot of jokes out of it, but I don't really know people in this office that well yet.

"Russians were dressed as ballet dancers in white tutus (the hairy-legged men too)". Hehe, I'd love to have seen that :)

If I'd known, I'd have had a camera. Especially when several were lining up for coffee.

That's smashing. I wish I'd seen the guys in tutus. I hope your chest infection improves. I am a bit prone to that, and I dread it coming on.

It's a pity I didn't have my camera!

I had a really bad bout a couple of years ago and it looks like this one's just not going to stop so I suppose I'll have to go onto antibiotics. It's not a very nice first impression to give people either, having coughing fits.

Glad you've worked out the job, though it sounds as if you've had to put in extra effort to get on top of it. Sorry about your chest. When my cough persists like that, my doctor says it's an asthmatic-type reaction and gives me an inhaler.

That's a very hospitable idea, getting different suburbs to support the foreign teams.

It's a chest infection: horrible stuff in the lungs. I went to the doctor this morning and I have antibiotics (which apparently it won't go away without) plus prednisone which will speed up the healing. I hope I'm better on Monday or no one will want me to work there. :-P It can't be pleasant hearing me cough.

Hope you feel better, soon. *HUGS*

Thanks, me too. Antibiotics take ages to work though and some people are saying they just don't help this time. :-(

I hope that your chest infection soon clears up. It gives a whole new meaning to "computer hacker".

I suppose that rugby is so boring that they had to do something to liven things up. :) (Perhaps that also accounts for some of the weird goings on with the England team.)

I don't even know what the weird going on are!

There have been at least three. Some of the team went to a bar than was holding a dwarf-throwing contest. Mike Tindall, who's either married or engaged to Zara Phillips, was photographed in a bar being kissing an attractive young woman. In their match against Romania the side twice tried to surreptitiously switch the ball for another one!

Dwarf-throwing? I didn't even know they had that here. :-( Greg had heard about the incidents/ Man, they fined a Samoan player for wearing a non-standard mouth-guard that had a sponsor's name that was seen for 3 seconds, and they didn't fine the English team for trying to change balls? Not cool.

I have to agree. I'm afraid that the days when football was a game for gentlemen played by ruffians and rugby was a game for ruffians played by gentlemen are long gone.

Urgh chest infections are horrible. *hugs* Hope you get better soon.

Yeah, I feel really crap when I have a coughing fit and I can't sleep at night for the rattling in my chest. I went to the doctor this morning and have antibiotics so I hope I be feeling better next week.

This Rugby World Cup things that's on has resulted in ...

I don't understand anything you said after that line :D Tutus? Lumberjacks? Romania? No need to explain further though, I will happily remain ignorant!

Hope things go well on the job and health front though.

It's just office looniness in a company competition where each department supports a team.

I now have antibiotics so I hope I'll stert getting better soon.

Ah, I am late - at least I hope you are all right now?
Rugby is not very popular here but hey! what colourful and resourceful teams you had:-)

I'm not a rugby fan and I was dreading this competition but it's actually very good-natured with so many people doing fun thing to support their team.

Hope the chest clears up soon. I had one last Christmas that really knocked me back for 3 weeks. I hope yours doesn't drag on that long, it's not nice at all.

I suppose if they are going with stereotypes, you'd all have to dress up as vampires. :¬D

I've already had it for two and the doctor said it wouldn't go away on its own, so I now have antibiotics. I really hope it's a lot better next week or they might not want to hire me.

Oh, you should be gypsies! Even though the Rom didn't come from there originally (most likely refugees from a war in India who became professional nomads), they helped out the prince of Romania and in return, he told them they could consider his land their adoptive homeland.

Someone else suggested on Dreamwidth it and I could do that without buying anything too. I think it's all over though since a lot of teams including Romania are going home this week. But I'm only a contractor anyway (at this stage).

Yeah, I wasn't so much meaning it as a serious course of action, as much as just my take on a fun interpretation of the challenge. Because I love costuming.

I do too! Maybe if I'd been there longer I'd have induced them to do something.

I hope that chest infection clears up quickly for you. Taking antibiotics is no fun. The rugby stuff sounds like fun. :o) It's not a big sport here, except maybe at the university level, and they're showing the matches during the afternoon.

If you take them with food they're OK.

I'm not that interested in rugby but a lot of people are having fun with it and I think it's made the country happier and more positive.

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