Today I started my new job (!!!) as Electronic Publishing Specialist for UT’s Law school. (That’s a fancy title for web designer.) It’s a great gig, everybody in the department is awesome, and I’m genuinely excited about it. I’ll be doing most of my work under the webmaster, a guy named Adam Norwood. Adam is a really talented designer, artist, and great guy, and his site is worth checking out. He’s a lot better at the technical web stuff than I am, so I think I’ll be able to learn a lot from him.
The only bummer today was sitting through UT’s 4 hour orientation session. Like I told my new bosses, it was “15 minutes of readin’, 4 hours of sittin’.” Luckily, they provided free stationary stationery:
It feels so good to have a job…
yeeeeeeeeeeeeehah!
Bureaucracy (after years as a bureaucrat, I’m still not sure I can spell it) at its finest!
Dude, I’ve sat through that orientation *twice*. Would that I had such artistic mementos thereof . . .
I especially like the “Freedom!” . . . “Bold Claims!” . . . “Big!” sequence. You’ve been here just a short time, yet already you’ve captured it perfectly.
Glad to have you with us! (don’t worry, I’m not stalking our new employee: I’ve got your blog’s feed in my RSS reader :)
Your benefits sketches are far more elaborate than mine, but I filled up a few pages when I had to sit through that myself. Mine mostly consisted of robots attacking dollar signs and Medicare cards and things like that.
Thanks for the link! Even more incentive to actually get my website up to date…
You were stationary for the orientation. You were sketching on STATIONERY.
Here’s a mnemonic for remembering the difference: StationERy = papER
“I don’t know what kind of crap you pulled in Cleveland…” Oh, that line got me good. Hilarious. Welcome to the newly-employed.
Veronica: obviously I’m not the spelling whiz, either (see Trixie’s comment)
Tim: I liked that part too
Adam: my rule with the blog — you have to assume your co-workers read it! why are robots so fun to draw? it must be the geometry.
Trixie: thanks for the mnemonic
Mark: I want to note that neither of my bosses look/act anything like that. the dude with the mustache and cowboy hat is the imaginary boss I had in my head when I was in texas looking for jobs — luckily, I never met him
Hey, Austin, as another Austinite (I live near St. Ed’s) — here’s the mnemonic I use for remembering how to spell stationery: The word origin comes from the folks who once created emblems representing one’s “station” in the gentry hierarchy, such as hallmarks and heraldic images. These would be imprinted on paper by the “stationer”, and eventually such paper came to be known as “stationery”.