Tomorrow is my first day

admin March 02, 2008 management stuff, open source 13 Comments

Meet with HR in the am, then new boss, then staff, etc. It should be typical first day administrative stuff. What to wear? Not a suit–this college seems pretty laid back. I think I’m going to ask someone to give me an Outlook tutorial. I haven’t used Windows in 4 years! Why did they hire me? I didn’t exactly skirt the open source issue in my interview, but I also didn’t come right out and share my true feelings. But as I said in the interview, the right thing for the school isn’t what I say, nor is it what they say, it’s what we say. So, I’ll try a little Windows and maybe I’ll get them to feed a little penguin…

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13 Responses to “Tomorrow is my first day”

  1. yu said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 5:36 am

    Best of luck! You’ll be great. We miss you here (still:-)

  2. NP said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 7:37 am

    Good Luck! I suspect you will be able to figure Outlook out pretty quickly, its not exactly hard to use. Then again you might catch cooties…

  3. Sukey said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 8:02 am

    Peering though the Windows of my mind…

    “…Hanging around, nothing to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays and Outlook always get me down…”

  4. jaeger said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 9:28 am

    What about other windows email readers _other_ than outlook? Is thunderbird an option?

  5. kdghty said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 10:33 am

    “Technically, Windows is an “operating system,” which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.” – Dave Barry

    Fight the good – and flexible – fight. Will you pine for Pine? Have you seen Alpine (or are they the competition now?)?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_%28e-mail_client%29

  6. Eunice said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 10:38 am

    good luck on the first day. hopefully you’ll spend the time that was supposed to be for learning outlook on how to access mail files through a much more friendly and less complex program.

    at least, that’s what i did on my first day of graduate school. 🙂

  7. cec said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 1:19 pm

    good luck!
    -c

  8. TT said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 3:36 pm

    Good luck! I’m sure you’ll rock their world.

  9. dec said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 9:06 pm

    When it’s time to feed the little Penguin just tell them:

    “The box said “Requires Windows XP or better.” So I installed LINUX”

    Then you can feed them after midnight and they’ll multiply! 😉

  10. admin said:

    Mar 03, 08 at 9:19 pm

    Unfortunately, I can’t use another email client. I mean, they don’t even support firefox as a browser. I’m not kidding. I could forward all my mail to google or something, but I think I should use the tools my staff is providing. The goal is to change the tools. Or to change the staff…

  11. Gahlord said:

    Mar 04, 08 at 5:40 am

    You can always take Rands’ incrementalist approach. Obviously you’re not going to get an entire organization to switch their OS and email client overnight.

    http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/08/05/incrementalists_completionists.html

    Best of luck and I look forward to eating popcorn and watching this action-adventure unfold.

  12. filberthockey said:

    Mar 04, 08 at 6:34 am

    Is that why you left [where you used to work — edited by Admin to protect anonymity] – you couldn’t change the tools or the staff? If you need any Windows pointers, you probably haven’t burned your bridges yet. By the way – you should see the new Windows core services install – command-line only environment. If you close your eyes you can pretend it’s unix.

  13. ihateyougoaway said:

    Jun 03, 08 at 7:51 pm

    Hrmph, I started using Pine again after recent troubles with “winslows” email clients.

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