friday was my last day at company “e2, an h2 company” and today my first day at company t.
not much of a change since whilst i at company e2 i had been on assignment at company t - so same job title, same location (one desk to the left), and many of the same people. but i have always enjoyed my time at company t and I look forward to working with them more as a member of their team than as a supplier.
i’ve taken a bit of a chance since i’ve moved from a “permanent” role to a contractor position, but i think in today’s economic conditions there is no such thing as a permanent position, especially at company e2 where the ceo is ruthlessly “repositioning” the company whilst collecting the largest cash bonus of any ceo in the states. plus company t is a new zealand company and has a more balanced view of profits-at-any-costs, and is much less likely to toss employees overboard to make a few more dollars for the shareholders.
one particular item during my new hire training that i found humourous. during my early days in boston my employer would frequently send out a memo with the spending limits for the senior staff: ceo: $100k, vps: $50k, directors: $25k, managers: 10k. me and my colleagues were not listed so we would update the list by including our names at the bottom: antony: $0, david: $0, sheila: $0. over the next 20 years i was able to break through the $0 barrier and be granted increasing financial authority. that all changed with our move to nz. during my induction training company policies were reviewed including that as a contractor i have no authority to spend company funds - my “delegated financial authority” is $0.
one of the new features in iphoto ‘09 is automatic face detection. if you give it a good starting photo of someone it will then find all the other photos that include that person. cool.
since i already manually tag (label) all my photos with place, subject and people/dogs included i though this would just be a novelty - but it has turned into endless hours of fun.
the first search with the jboss got 7 out of 8. sorry about that rob.
the next search of another family member got a match on the photo below.
maybe someone needs to change their brand of toothpaste?
less than 24 hours until george w is on his way back to a retirement filled with brush clearing, so i’m taking this last chance to blame him for an troubling miscarriage of justice.
in our previous visits to new zealand we had spent almost all of our time on the south island - the greener, wilder and more action packed half of nz - and when we were planning to move here we always assumed we would live on the south island.
then we ended up in wellington and have been keeping ourselves busy on the north island for the last 18 months. but our first trip to the south island was on the books for march. and it was a big one - the milford track.
the milford track is viewed by many as the finest walk in the world. the track is limited to 90 walkers a day and reservations open up each july 1st for the following year. last july i jumped on the booking system the minute it opened to secure our reservation for this march. even better jackie’s brother from chicago was able to join us for the tramp.
but unfortunately it is no longer in the cards for me - and i’m confident that somehow this is w’s fault.
my recovery from my fracture is progressing along - but not fast enough to allow me to go on the tramp.
damn.
adding a super sized dose of salt to the wound - the NY Times featured the Milford Track in this weekend’s Sunday edition.
day 58 and i took my first unassisted steps since my accident.
just 10 steps today. more tomorrow.
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