{"id":6050,"date":"2010-08-14T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2010-08-14T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:03:44","slug":"what-i-was-up-to-on-my-last-day-at-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/what-i-was-up-to-on-my-last-day-at-ibm\/","title":{"rendered":"What I was up to on my last day at IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Friday, the 13th was my last working day at IBM. &nbsp;IBM really do not want you to work on your last day. &nbsp;When I arrived at work I was no more&nbsp;authorized&nbsp;to use my email and some other IBM systems. &nbsp;ILC was still working and I had to do that &#8230;yes you not going to get away with not doing your ILC.<\/p>\n<p>I did my last paperwork and then handed back all I had to hand back. &nbsp;The office then got together and said good-bye .. thanks Herman and Alex for the speech. &nbsp;I was handed this massive card &#8211; the photo does not do it justice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TGZFvKno_5I\/AAAAAAAAAmk\/ac5gTNSrJlw\/s640\/mb-IMG_0475.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6050]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TGZFvKno_5I\/AAAAAAAAAmk\/ac5gTNSrJlw\/s640\/mb-IMG_0475.jpg\" alt=\"Good-bye Card\" width=\"490\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the inside was full of personal messages (and a gift card for some gadget buying) &#8211; thanks guys &amp; gals, I will treasure it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TGZFu8irXTI\/AAAAAAAAAmg\/FvBx5_6t_4Y\/mb-IMG_0476.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6050]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_cNPSEbi7GQk\/TGZFu8irXTI\/AAAAAAAAAmg\/FvBx5_6t_4Y\/mb-IMG_0476.jpg\" alt=\"Card - inside\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I then said my good-bye&#8217;s, which took a while and was out of the office by 10:30. &nbsp;Met up with a friend for some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidaecaffe.com\/\">vida coffee<\/a> and just sit in the sun and chat.<\/p>\n<p>Then drove through to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterfront.co.za\/Pages\/home.aspx\">V&amp;A Waterfront<\/a> and met up with another friend who is in town for the weekend from Pretoria. &nbsp;It was such a gorgeous day that we again sat outside, had some drinks and just chatted away. &nbsp;It is always so good to meet up with close friends from far away whom one only see once or twice in the year. &nbsp;The time is never enough to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Drove through the Stellenbosch in the afternoon to go pick up my son from varsity. &nbsp;The 2 of us then went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dros.co.za\/Dros.html\">The Dros in Willowbridge<\/a> for some drinks and just catch up on each others life. &nbsp;Was so good to sit down with him and get to know what is going on in his life. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Was a great day spending time with dear friends and my son. &nbsp;Now a couple of days off not thinking at all about any work since I am actually unemployed until I start my new job on Wednesday, the 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Friday, the 13th was my last working day at IBM. &nbsp;IBM really do not want you to work on your last day. &nbsp;When I arrived at work I was no more&nbsp;authorized&nbsp;to use my email and some other IBM systems. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/what-i-was-up-to-on-my-last-day-at-ibm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  What I was up to on my last day at IBM<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[330,21,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ek","category-friends-family","category-ibm","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}