My new name: Tarkan
Basak Emeklilik is a very young company. My IT department has nobody over age 30.
The first day of work kicked ass. My boss is former Turkish military, and his english is okay since he lived in Atlanta for a year. He's very social and encourages me to talk to every employee as much as possible. Getting paid to socialize kicks ass too. I also met with the vice president of the company, and we chatted for a good while about the European and American markets for the software that Basak developed while other insurance companies were going out of business. One of my projects could be developing a plan to sell the software to American companies.
My first day at work and I already have a new name and a chill out corner. Since my name is a little hard to pronounce, my neighbor Serkan started calling me Tarkan, which is also the name of a famous Turkish pop star. They say I work too hard and type too fast, haha. Near the water cooler is a corner near a window, and that's where the guys and I chill out and talk about nothing. It's our "lazy man's corner" as we termed it. I can tell there will be many 20 minute breaks where we spend more energy trying to avoid work than actually doing it.
More to come on work as the week progresses.
The first day of work kicked ass. My boss is former Turkish military, and his english is okay since he lived in Atlanta for a year. He's very social and encourages me to talk to every employee as much as possible. Getting paid to socialize kicks ass too. I also met with the vice president of the company, and we chatted for a good while about the European and American markets for the software that Basak developed while other insurance companies were going out of business. One of my projects could be developing a plan to sell the software to American companies.
My first day at work and I already have a new name and a chill out corner. Since my name is a little hard to pronounce, my neighbor Serkan started calling me Tarkan, which is also the name of a famous Turkish pop star. They say I work too hard and type too fast, haha. Near the water cooler is a corner near a window, and that's where the guys and I chill out and talk about nothing. It's our "lazy man's corner" as we termed it. I can tell there will be many 20 minute breaks where we spend more energy trying to avoid work than actually doing it.
More to come on work as the week progresses.
posted by amartin4 at 8:14 AM
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Have you told them about the holy trinity?
Guns, beer, freedom.
Have fun man, ill be in the ME in July and ill be looking for tickets to Istanbul.
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