First off let's solve the mystery from yesterday. The person in the shower was a friend who was also too drunk to go home. That's it. Sorry for the let down. I knew I couldn't get her home and the person who drove me couldn't either because it would have been major back tracking for them so she stayed the night. In the other room. She is married and on cast with me. Her husband is currently in Canada on a project and he too is my friend so nothing happened, nothing will ever happen, and it was an innocent thing.
Yesterday was a useless wasted day and I think I may have given the wrong vibe at work. But on the other hand, I think I gave the vibe I wanted to give. I made it one week without anyone knowing a damn thing about me, not seeing my piercings, not knowing what I do for fun, etc. On that hand I met my goals for the week as odd as those goals were.
Got to work around 8:15. Took the train together with my friend which was nice as it made the ride a lot quicker. She works near me up there and this is the first time our schedules aligned where we could take the train together. Got into the office and finally got to meet my new boss. I showed him what I had been able to accomplish with the product during the four days and he was very impressed. He then showed me some things that I had questions on and it helped a ton. Then came the fucked up part of the day...
We were scheduled to have a company meeting from 10-4 and it was rumored we would be doing some team activity. No one knew if that meant onsite, offsite, etc. The only people who knew were the CTO and the office manager as she had to arrange everything. We first did a boardroom meeting going over the quarter and the direction; standard stuff. Then at 11:30 we go downstairs and all 35 of us, yes I counted, the company is actually a little smaller than I was led to believe, but I am okay with that, and got into a chartered bus.
We then head to a bowling alley. Yep. A bowling alley. Here I am one of two people not in jeans (the other being the CEO), with a hangover, going to a bowling alley. Now here's the thing -- I can only bowl occasionally like once a year because of my finger. After about three frames it pops out. It hurts like a motherfucker when that happens and it takes days for me to recover. I was not about to have that happen at a work function. Also, my fucking head was splitting. AND since this was week one, I was about to drink in front of my co-workers. I could have easily gotten trashed and bowled which would have masked the pain if my finger popped, but I didn't. Instead I sat quietly at the counter watching everyone. I would have read but oh wait, the new Kindle they sent me? Fucking died yesterday morning. Amazon is sending me a new one and gave me a $20 credit on my account, but it still sucked because I had no kindle and my phone died around noon. FML. Seriously.
After the first half hour of 'oh you don't bowl' and me politely saying no thank you to the deep fried food from hell which I wouldn't eat, and explaining how I can't bowl due to injury, most people left me alone. That's why I am worried I sent the wrong message. I was trying to be polite and stick with the group and be there, but it was clear that I was bored and the 'alone guy'. Some people chatted with me in between turns, but you know how it is. I did have an interesting conversation with the director of training; she was starting to get buzzed. Oh and btw most of the sales/marketing douchebags were drinking like fish and getting louder and more obnoxious with each passing minute. Anyway, the conversation I had with the DoT was essentially me saying how I was kind of private person (a nice lie, right?) and she repleid with 'I forget sometimes when you work at a small company that it seems like everyone is family, but as the company grows, people are going to be more private'. Bingo. She nailed it right there. She nailed what I don't what -- everyone knowing everything about me. For right now, I may be the quiet, odd duck, but I will take that over the drunken idiotic fool any day. As long as I do my job and I do it well, nothing else matters.
We got back to the office around 4:30 and I headed down to the train. Came home, grabbed some groceries and had swordfish, sliced tomatoes, and a shrimp cocktail for dinner. Was very nice. Watched an old movie, Hellraiser, and went to bed.
Tonight is a show and I am having lunch with a friend downtown. Might even do laundry today. Let's see how I feel.
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