Today was my last day of work at Rogers and my manager sent this out to our team:
Hi Team,
Well today we say goodbye to Jerome who will be starting a new life in BC as of the end of the week. Since this is Jerome’s last day I thought it would be fitting to [...]

Today was my second last day at Rogers and with the company not willing to give a reference of me professionally, it’s really hard to motivate myself. In addition, the new schedule scheme begins today so I’m on a different shift from all my other work friends so I sat mostly alone or with strangers [...]

I had my exit interview with HR today. Pretty standard, “Why are you leaving and what positive and negative feedback do you have for us?” stuff. I was impressed with how thorough the four-page multiple choice questionnaire was on every aspect of the company from benefits, to training, to managers, to communication between departments to [...]

I handed in my polite resignation at work today.

After our weekly team meeting, I sat down and talked with my manager to tell him about the move to BC and that I’d be leaving. He was pretty positive and wished me good luck, so that went well enough. Minding their legal backsides, they will be [...]

Since I started working at Rogers, they’ve had a ping-pong table set up and a bunch of us guys (and one girl) meet up during breaks and lunches to play.
Well a couple days ago, one of the guys fell on the table and broke it. Ripped the brackets right out of the bottom of it.
The [...]

Today was the official sales part of the training. It was actually the sales course we started back in March and never finished.
You know those comedies where there’s some bumbling nerd trying to hit on and date some hot girl and he messes everything up and you can’t believe how bad he is at all [...]

From: Joe Drew
Subject: Wanna see what I’ve been working on the past two years?
Today, Side Effects Software (my company!) released the beta of our latest version, Houdini 9.0!
You can get a free version from our web site. If you’re interested, I suggest using the torrents, the links to which are available at the bottom-right of [...]

Today was another potluck. Sure we just had one under a week ago but that was just us friends and now it was our training class. Le sigh. Not surprisingly, none of us really wanted to do another but none of us gave resistance and the motion was passed through the class. It turned out [...]

I realized today that I’m not really looking forward to sales.
A whole bunch of cell phone companies were in the lunch room at work today: Nokia, Palm, Samsung, Morotola, LG, RIM and the Rogers Vision (HSDPA) stuff. All just showing their wares and handing out free stuff - mostly hand-outs (which I avoided) and a [...]

I and most of my fulfillment class got sort of promoted at work. Because of our progress in sales, they’re transferring us to the converged sales team. Same base pay, higher commissions and higher potential for commissions: Instead of order-taking from 3rd party dealers (where they get the commission), all the calls that the system [...]