- Make sure your seat is at the correct height versus your computer screen.
- Personalise your computer - this involves changing the wallpaper, downloading cursormania.com and Smiley Central, playing around with the font of your outgoing mail signature, and naming folders of your documents after yourself.
- Locate and master the coffee machine/befriend the woman who makes the coffee.
- Get a strategically-sized waterbottle (not too big/too small) that you can refill from time to time as an excuse to leave your desk.
- Practice the busy face: lips pursed, eyes squinting in concentration, finger tapping the pen or on the mouse.
An office desk after a year and a half of working from home. Colleagues. Inside jokes. Sign in/sign out registers. Team deadlines. Here I come....
9 comments:
That sounds great. Congratulations:)
Hey congratulations on your new job! This must be exciting for you, new job in a new place!
Good luck!
Same pinch.
Except we've been asked not to fiddle with the PCs. We switch machines as per demand, and also have to deal with complicated software, so...
Dipali, Sbora: Thanks a lot. It's been three days and I'm fairly happy so far.
Sue: :) I read your post about work and could only manage a tenuous grip on what you were saying. So when you say complicated software, I believe you. No questions asked!
yay! i'm sure that must feel good. is it the same company?
OJ, thanks. Nah, this is a new place.
LOL. Could relate. Congratulations! You almost make me yearn to go back to work.:)
Good luck...
Good luck A . All the best .Im sure you feel energised!
congratulations! nice blog. went thru many posts.
add to the list- find your local guide- someone who helps u find your way around and get your jobs done
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