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Day 4.3 Open spaces
May. 27th, 2009 07:37 pm
We're finally pretty much done with the dining room and kitchens stuff and now moving on to office furniture. I think that everybody else is slowly starting to catch back up with us, so there was at least enough flooring done that we could work closer to the space in which the office stuff is actually going to go. And we really need that space. It's too cramped in the back, and some IKEA people have been building stuff in the back, borrowing our tools, and SOME OF OUR TOOLS HAVE BEEN GOING MISSING. (Our boss will hear about this tomorrow.)
I wore my wrist brace minus the steel bars, and it definitely helped to prevent my wrist from lashing out in pain all of the time, though I still had to be careful and needed to use the drill a couple of times.
Ate an IKEA cinnamon bun. It was certainly delicious. Not too buttery and not too sweet.
I've really enjoyed my week at work so far and I'm going to really miss it come Friday. It turns out that SHE actually chose PE-Guy to the acting leader while SHE is gone and not the boss who did. Honestly, though, PE-Guy is a good fit for the role. He doesn't try to boss us around, talks well, goes with the flow depending on what the manager wants us to do, and gets down to build stuff too. Rather than always running around trying to figure out what we have to do next while the rest of us work, he works with us and when we're out of things to build, he'll call the manager to find out what our next task is while we clean up and get ready for it.
We're quirky people who have actual interests in common. Rich has been eating $0.50 hot dogs for lunch almost every day and started a tally on the whiteboard to see if he can eat 100 hot dogs by the end of this job. PE-Guy has sort of joined in the game.
Interesting discussions today included religion, origins of the Universe, life on Mars, ambidexterity, quantum and astrophysics, Windows 7 (no wait, that was yesterday)... I may not have much to add to the discussion but at least it's stuff I'm curious and have some ideas about. PE-Guy(?) also jokingly came up with the idea to, when SHE comes back, have each of the rest of us spend a period of time inspiring chatter about each of our educational fields (or, in my opinion, any other obscure field that we're an expert in that doesn't really have a point of reference to the common person)... I dunno, to "blind her with SCIENCE!" or something:
* Anthony: Aircraft maintenance
* Artsy Guy: Industrial design (or obscure punk/noise music, maybe)
* PE-Guy: Education / Phys Ed
* Rich: Economics
* Me: Chemistry (how about x-ray diffraction? Maybe Finnish or German grammar, classical music)
It's not a bad idea, but maybe a bit too... mean.
We also joked about how we're going to... "initiate" the four new workers next week. Artsy Guy hopes that there might be another girl, but I doubt it. This isn't exactly the type of work that attracts girls, unfortunately. But I agree that it would be much more interesting with more females on the team, in order to divert some of the unspoken tension that I know exists between me and HER. (It's actually quite noticeable).
Artsy Guy's noted that there's been less talk about drinking and partying this week (though it's still mentioned from time to time; just not excessively) and our breaks have been a bit more regular. He said that in the future he's just going to keep busy and ignore HER, and take orders directly from the manager.
After all, it certainly seems like the manager wants to work with all of us. Artsy Guy thinks that the "leader" role is less than SHE is making it. It's mostly that SHE is the contact person for the group because she has the phone. On the original job description (and I think at the interview) it was said that we'd sometimes have to go down to the warehouse and get some of the stuff to build by ourselves. But SHE insists on doing as much of that by herself as possible, and if not, then overseeing us do it.
While we were cleaning up stuff, at one point I found myself holding two rubber mallets, and I couldn't help but think of the epic hammer-fight from Jadesoturi (I wish the sequence was on Youtube, but it's the climax of the movie so it'd be too much of a spoiler):
P.S. re. the smoky smell yesterday.
Items assembled
I wore my wrist brace minus the steel bars, and it definitely helped to prevent my wrist from lashing out in pain all of the time, though I still had to be careful and needed to use the drill a couple of times.
Ate an IKEA cinnamon bun. It was certainly delicious. Not too buttery and not too sweet.
I've really enjoyed my week at work so far and I'm going to really miss it come Friday. It turns out that SHE actually chose PE-Guy to the acting leader while SHE is gone and not the boss who did. Honestly, though, PE-Guy is a good fit for the role. He doesn't try to boss us around, talks well, goes with the flow depending on what the manager wants us to do, and gets down to build stuff too. Rather than always running around trying to figure out what we have to do next while the rest of us work, he works with us and when we're out of things to build, he'll call the manager to find out what our next task is while we clean up and get ready for it.
We're quirky people who have actual interests in common. Rich has been eating $0.50 hot dogs for lunch almost every day and started a tally on the whiteboard to see if he can eat 100 hot dogs by the end of this job. PE-Guy has sort of joined in the game.
Interesting discussions today included religion, origins of the Universe, life on Mars, ambidexterity, quantum and astrophysics, Windows 7 (no wait, that was yesterday)... I may not have much to add to the discussion but at least it's stuff I'm curious and have some ideas about. PE-Guy(?) also jokingly came up with the idea to, when SHE comes back, have each of the rest of us spend a period of time inspiring chatter about each of our educational fields (or, in my opinion, any other obscure field that we're an expert in that doesn't really have a point of reference to the common person)... I dunno, to "blind her with SCIENCE!" or something:
* Anthony: Aircraft maintenance
* Artsy Guy: Industrial design (or obscure punk/noise music, maybe)
* PE-Guy: Education / Phys Ed
* Rich: Economics
* Me: Chemistry (how about x-ray diffraction? Maybe Finnish or German grammar, classical music)
It's not a bad idea, but maybe a bit too... mean.
We also joked about how we're going to... "initiate" the four new workers next week. Artsy Guy hopes that there might be another girl, but I doubt it. This isn't exactly the type of work that attracts girls, unfortunately. But I agree that it would be much more interesting with more females on the team, in order to divert some of the unspoken tension that I know exists between me and HER. (It's actually quite noticeable).
Artsy Guy's noted that there's been less talk about drinking and partying this week (though it's still mentioned from time to time; just not excessively) and our breaks have been a bit more regular. He said that in the future he's just going to keep busy and ignore HER, and take orders directly from the manager.
After all, it certainly seems like the manager wants to work with all of us. Artsy Guy thinks that the "leader" role is less than SHE is making it. It's mostly that SHE is the contact person for the group because she has the phone. On the original job description (and I think at the interview) it was said that we'd sometimes have to go down to the warehouse and get some of the stuff to build by ourselves. But SHE insists on doing as much of that by herself as possible, and if not, then overseeing us do it.
While we were cleaning up stuff, at one point I found myself holding two rubber mallets, and I couldn't help but think of the epic hammer-fight from Jadesoturi (I wish the sequence was on Youtube, but it's the climax of the movie so it'd be too much of a spoiler):
P.S. re. the smoky smell yesterday.
Items assembled
- BERNHARD chair
- EFFEKTIV combination similar to this but both levels are with the roll front filing cabinets. Did you know that this thing has a large iron counterweight at the back of each level to balance the weight of the paper you'd put into it?
- GODMORGON sink cabinet with 1 drawer with GRUNDTAL legs (well good morning to you too!)
