{"id":91,"date":"2006-12-06T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T06:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2006-12-06T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T06:16:01","slug":"first-couple-of-days-at-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/first-couple-of-days-at-ibm\/","title":{"rendered":"First couple of days at IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 1 Dec 2006, we all got given a goody bag from IBM .. we had no idea what was in it.&nbsp; In it was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our IBM badges &#8212; yes now we can proudly show we are IBMers<\/li>\n<li>A blue IBM fleeze jacket so that we can show even more we are IBMers<\/li>\n<li>IBM folder and pen &#8212; even more showoff stuff.<\/li>\n<li>For those that joined the IBM medical aid &#8212; all our medical stuff.<\/li>\n<li>and lastly but not least &#8212; an IBM watch which my son promptly made his own.<\/li>\n<li>and let us not forget the donuts and juice \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week all of us are going through induction and medicals.&nbsp; I had my induction on Monday and we told all about Security, BCG, ILC, WWER, CHRIS and a lot of other acronyms and systems.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening we were officially welcomed at a party at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.places.co.za\/html\/kirstenbosch.html\">Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens<\/a> here in Cape Town.&nbsp; We listened to a great speech by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomorrowtoday.biz\/people\/graeme-codrington.html\">Greame Codringtom<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomorrowtoday.biz\/\">TomorrowToday<\/a> on why people from different age <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomorrowtoday.biz\/generations\/bridging-the-boomer-xer-gap.html\">groups does not understand<\/a> one another. Met Mark Harris, Debbie Graham and a bunch of other great existing IBMers.<\/p>\n<p>And inbetween all of this I had to do my day job also &#8212; making sure the customer is happy and we deliver what we suppose to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>The next milestone on my journey into IBM is getting my first payslip around the 15th of December.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I must say things went fairly smoothly with a few bumps here and there.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/welcome\" rel=\"tag\">welcome<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/induction\" rel=\"tag\">induction<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/kirstenbosch\" rel=\"tag\">kirstenbosch<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tomorrowtoday\" rel=\"tag\">tomorrowtoday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 1 Dec 2006, we all got given a goody bag from IBM .. we had no idea what was in it.&nbsp; In it was: Our IBM badges &#8212; yes now we can proudly show we are IBMers A <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/first-couple-of-days-at-ibm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  First couple of days 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}