posted on 2008-04-01 - amd.im/V1Aa
I arrived a bit early, despite my the email that indicated that I should avoid doing so. It wasn't too early and the lobby had already been opened. This was nice because I was able to get into the line to get my badge picture taken early, when the line was much shorter. Before long there were 59 "Corporate Employees" that were here for orientation.
Because there were so many employees orientation was delayed a bit. When the dust had settled from the all the badge registration we sat down in the orientation auditorium, and we were greeted by "PC" from the Mac vs. PC commercials on a large projector screen. He did an amusing little bit about how we were making a bad decision by working here, and asked us all to leave. The rest of the orientation covered basic HR stuff, corporate history, security, and the like.
After orientation I met up with a guy from a related department who had lunch with me and showed me to my cube where I worked on all the administrative stuff for the rest of the day.
It wasn't a particularly exciting day material wise, but I was quite excited to be here, and am rapidly becoming enamored with the culture and peoples' outlooks here, everything is very positive and energetic.
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