Day 2 - As out of date as last year's newpaper

Thursday, Oct 12th

I start installing the software I lost but need admin rights. Paul logs on for me and I find half the drivers are missing. What a joy. Luckily I download everything I need AND put them on the network for a silly project I was given. My foresight strikes again :).

Of most note is my invisibility to project managers. None of the 3 main ones have greeted me with a welcome. I had a mumble "alright" from Midge, "Hello Mike" (surprised) from Mungo and a "Good night" from Mary. I guess I will not be on their Christmas card list either.

Lunch is somewhat eventful after someone picks up my pastie and dessert from the kitchen and asconds with it. I ask the receptionist if she has seen a pastie walk by, much to her amusement.
I return and after a short debate about Moslems wearing veils (which ends with me being called ignorant I guess) my food magically rematerialises. I did not see who snuck it back.

I spent the rest of my day rummaging around the corporate intranet vainly catching up on things only to find everything as hopelessly out of date as when I left, except:

• my ex-team member is still logged as working on a contract we lost in Jan
• the same person works on another account that according to the author has no "resource".

[ed: please note the jargon is theirs - people are resources and any mention of them uses that word]

• if I need to book a holiday, I can't use the official procedure because it's still blank
• there are no meeting minutes since May 2006, so I can't see what's been happening
• most of the external links don't work
• many of the internal (intranet) don't work either

Apart from that everything is fine.