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2005-12-01
The first day
I got up at 6 AM so that I would be able to leave home a 7 o'clock. The A2 freeway was as I had expected it: Traffic jam, traffic jam, traffic jam... Fortunately I managed to reach my new work place just before nine, as agreed.
I hadn't met my new boss yet, not even during the job interviews, but fortunately it turned out immediately that we can get along with him very well. I will be in one of the two support teams, that was the position I would like the best as I had indicated in the interviews.
In the hierarchy there is one more person between this boss and myself, a team leader, and he turns out to be an old acquaintance of mine: I have been on stage in a theatre play together with him! So he has known me when I still was a man, but at the time I was already very much aware of my female side and was not hiding it. So it must not have been a very big surprise for him to meet me again, but now as a woman.
I have been introduced to about a hundred people today, that is nearly all the employees of the company. Of course I have forgotten most of these names at once, that is the way it goes on a first day in your new job. I hope nobody will hold that against me.
The plan is I will be working on "the process", i.e. the way of working. But I will also have to know about all the technical details of the system. So what are those? I hadn't told you about that: We make software for the Dutch railroads.
Some numbers:
After this heavy day I returned home by the A2. Traffic jam, traffic jam, traffic jam...
And when I arrived, there was a surprise for me: All the lights were on and Julia was waiting for me with a delicious meal! She may have moved out, but today and tomorrow, she will still have dinner with me. This was very nice! Now there was someone I could tell about the events of the day. And I also enjoyed my dinner very much!
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I hadn't met my new boss yet, not even during the job interviews, but fortunately it turned out immediately that we can get along with him very well. I will be in one of the two support teams, that was the position I would like the best as I had indicated in the interviews.
In the hierarchy there is one more person between this boss and myself, a team leader, and he turns out to be an old acquaintance of mine: I have been on stage in a theatre play together with him! So he has known me when I still was a man, but at the time I was already very much aware of my female side and was not hiding it. So it must not have been a very big surprise for him to meet me again, but now as a woman.
I have been introduced to about a hundred people today, that is nearly all the employees of the company. Of course I have forgotten most of these names at once, that is the way it goes on a first day in your new job. I hope nobody will hold that against me.
The plan is I will be working on "the process", i.e. the way of working. But I will also have to know about all the technical details of the system. So what are those? I hadn't told you about that: We make software for the Dutch railroads.
Some numbers:- 226 stops
- 79 cargo yards
- 251 stations
- 61 bridges
- 88 connections
- 7000 train movements a day
- 2000 miles of track
- 7588 switches
- 8915 signals
- 3848 tracks
- The software has approx. 75.000 I/O-points
- The software consists of about 1.000.000 lines of code
- Everybody talks in abbreviations, there are hundreds of those
After this heavy day I returned home by the A2. Traffic jam, traffic jam, traffic jam...
And when I arrived, there was a surprise for me: All the lights were on and Julia was waiting for me with a delicious meal! She may have moved out, but today and tomorrow, she will still have dinner with me. This was very nice! Now there was someone I could tell about the events of the day. And I also enjoyed my dinner very much!
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