'In my busy life as a working mum, nursery school teacher, and tortured soul cast into the pit...'

[charliesmum]

Cookie to anyone who gets the quote in the subject line. (To be fair, the last bit should read 'cast into the pit for all eternity' but I ran out of room)

First day was good. The woman who is training me said it was 'hard to get fired from this place' so, should it happen to me, I shall assume the mantel of the biggest loser in the universe. Just giving you a heads up.

Really though, I'm hoping the work will be something I don't screw up, because I quite like this company. The people are nice, the company as a whole is very laid back and flexible. The CEO is Russian, as is the tech guy, which for some reason I think is kinda cool. The tech guy's name is Vlad, even.

Hope you all have a swell day.

Comments

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it went well, so far. Good luck! {{HUGS}}

[chrysantza.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear your first day went well!

Tech guy probably has had to put up with a million and one "Dracula" and "Impaler" jokes.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

I really hope this goes well for you! Want to know some basic Russian words to say to the tech guy?

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do want to know Russian words! The Big Boss is also Russian!

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Spaciba - Thank-you
Pajaluista - Please/you're welcome
Atlichna - Excellent! Great! (term of praise/exclamation)
Zdrafstvuitye - Hello (formal)
Da svidanya - Good-bye (relatively informal)
Privyet - Hi (informal)
Kak u vas dela? - How's it going?
Harasho - Good, great! (Ochen harasho, very good)
Nichevo - Okay
Niplokha - Not bad
Plokha - Bad (but _only_ use it if you want to then explain exactly why things are bad - it invites/precedes an explanation!)

Those are all pretty phonetic (although not written using traditional transliteration, which, IMO, _sucks_ for actual pronunciation.)

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Spaciba!

I like Plokha. Just seems to sum it right up.

Yay, The Young Ones

[better-wishes.livejournal.com]

I found you. I was looking for you, but I couldn't find you. Anyway, it's Trish, by the way. I hope your new job rocks. I'm sorry your were sick. I hadn't heard from you. I kept not calling because I thought may be you were working. Stupid Target gave me this cushy job I kind of liked, but they snatched it away again, the doinks.

Do the Russian guys have accents? Do you think of Natasha and Borris when the talk?

I don't know what I'm going to do here, but I thought I'd try.

Hope you're happy and feeling better.

Re: Yay, The Young Ones

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Trishie!!!

You have to friend me now. I friended you. Just go into my profile and click on the plus sign icon up at the top. Then you can see my entries on your flist.

Sucks that Target took your job away. The weenies.

sorry I've not called. I will call you tonight if I can - between work and being sick and the play, I've not much time to myself any more.

Re: Yay, The Young Ones

[better-wishes.livejournal.com]

I really don't get much time either. So, it's all good. I friended you too.