Month: March 2021

I didn’t have faith in my current company and so I was looking for a new job. I ended up with a small consulting company who wanted to put me at a project with IBM. Never having worked at a large company I was pretty excited but the problem was that the job was in a different city a couple of hours from my apartment.

Rather than really committing to this location by moving there I decided to take it for a trial run and to look for cheap accommodations instead. I let my fingers do walking and came up with a few different places I could check out. Most of them were not good enough for one reason or other, but the most interesting was a bachelor who owned a house and was looking for someone to share his costs. I explained my situation that I was not really moving to Rochester but looking for temporary accommodations thus I needed a furnished room.

He seemed to be a bit anxious in his mannerisms but we spoke about the costs and he mentioned that I would even have a garage for my car. It was about then things started to go down hill. He told me that he smoked marijuana and asked if I had a problem with that. Well, not knowing him I did have a bit of a problem but the room itself pretty much made up my mind. I needed a furnished room and it had no bed, no lamps, just an empty room.

There are a lot of topics that are taught in school, starting with the three R’s but also encompassing other issues ranging from sex education to nutrition. Oddly enough students only recognize some of the facts that they have learned but usually when it doesn’t really affect them.

It was after a students birthday party and there was once piece of cake left. It was just sitting on the corner of my desk.

Student Cake is not really a healthy choice, perhaps we should throw it away!

Teacher If you want me to remain happy, you will leave it right there.

Lets be realistic. Mathematics is not really going to be any different next year when compared to this year, nor is English, Biology or even German class. Yet as a music teacher there a small opportunity to change. Every year there is a music concert and the children of the fifth grade try to pick out a song that they would like to sing.

Of course the children have access to the radio and all have their favorite male and female singers, yet at age 11 they may not really understand those lyrics from Jay Z, Beyonce or Katy Perry.

So of course, most of the suggestions from the class are passed over quickly. Not sure if the parents are ready for “I kissed a girl” coming from a choir of eleven year olds.

As a programmer, I am never really surprised when at some point a program pops up an odd message to either the screen or a log file. During development virtually every developer at one point or other will encounter a difficulty that cannot be easily tracked and will add some small messages to help with diagnosing the problem.

However, I had always imagined that publishing, even on the internet, would be a bit different. While looking for other interesting articles I ended up on this page only to see what appears to be someone having a bit of fun at work in an area they don’t think will be caught at.

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I didn’t have faith in my current company and so I was looking for a new job. I ended up with a small consulting company who wanted to put me at a project with IBM. Never having worked at a large company I was pretty excited but the problem was that the job was in a different city a couple of hours from my apartment.

Rather than really committing to this location by moving there I decided to take it for a trial run and to look for cheap accommodations instead. I let my fingers do walking and came up with a few different places I could check out. Most of them were not good enough for one reason or other, but the most interesting was a bachelor who owned a house and was looking for someone to share his costs. I explained my situation that I was not really moving to Rochester but looking for temporary accommodations thus I needed a furnished room.

He seemed to be a bit anxious in his mannerisms but we spoke about the costs and he mentioned that I would even have a garage for my car. It was about then things started to go down hill. He told me that he smoked marijuana and asked if I had a problem with that. Well, not knowing him I did have a bit of a problem but the room itself pretty much made up my mind. I needed a furnished room and it had no bed, no lamps, just an empty room.

Zach and I were chatting about current events in the news when Sophie came in. It was right before the German public holiday “Tag der arbeit” which this year fell on a Thursday and she was planning on taking Friday off. Her opening line was “Zach, as you are not here after Monday I thought I would say my good byes now”.

Zach had heard that heard some rumors that his six month contract may be cut short but earlier in the day his boss said that he was unaware of any changes. Well, half a day later apparently it was a bit more cleared up in a team meeting as Sophie was wishing him well on his next assignment.

Things had been going wrong for a while now and unbeknownst to the client and to his agency Zach was not planning to extend, he had enough “fun” for one lifetime. Thus this was not really that much of a shock, it was however a shock to Sophie that nobody had told Zach he wouldn’t be sitting there in 4 days time.

Despite how correct all this information was, nothing was really official. Our boss had to go to his daughters school to pick her up and said that he would talk to Zach in the morning. Well, morning came and morning went. No official word came from either the client nor his agency if he should be doing any kind of handover. It wasn’t clear if or when he should turn in his key or his laptop either.