March 31, 2003

Awkward

Today the new trainees from our Shelton, CT facility arrived to begin their two week training and effectively put my friends and I out of a job. In order to welcome them to the group, my boss ordered about 25 pizza's and had us all attend a "meet and greet" in one of the conference rooms. This turned out to be pretty lame, no offense to the new people (besides taking my JOB), imagine 40+ adults packed into a little conference room that was designed to hold, perhaps 10 people. Not a pretty sight. Also, these people were setup in the only chairs in the room along one wall. It ended up being very strange and a lot like the receiving line that you might find at a wedding. We had to rush past them, us standing as they sat and looked up at us nervously, introduce ourselves and say something witty (or at least I attempted to do so). I hate that. I would much rather have spent some time getting to know them and talk to them one on one. Hopefully the next few weeks turn out a little better than that did.
By Dave @ 04:20 PM

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May I take a guess at what it may have been like at this get together...here it goes:

-"MMMMM Lemmme ask you this...chooo choo choo....is Shelton spelled capital S-h-e-l-t (like dree)-o-n?"

Posted by Ryan at 10:27 PM on March 31, 2003

Yeah, that's about right. I am one of the people that has someone sitting with me every day training, so we will see how it goes.

Oh, and the pizza sucked, but that is a given at the company sponsored functions.

Posted by Dave at 11:19 PM on March 31, 2003

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