Category Archives: My corporate summer
My Corporate Summer comes to an end
Written on August 25, 2009 at 1:21 pm, by Ishani Nath
On my last day at the office, my co-workers and I went out to lunch together. At the lunch they presented me with a small going-away gift and a card. As I read ...
My Corporate Summer: Taking off the training wheels
Written on August 18, 2009 at 10:14 am, by Ishani Nath
Get in at 8. Get the reports from the previous day at 9. Get the mail between 10 and 11, and sort through the packages until lunch. Then begins the post lunch c...
My Corporate Summer: Unwrapping fun at the office
Written on August 11, 2009 at 8:00 am, by Ishani Nath
My massive reception desk is really just a means of hiding the multiple large boxes and packages that come in daily. With the number of packages and boxes I tak...
My Corporate Summer: The vacation replacement
Written on August 5, 2009 at 10:09 am, by Ishani Nath
While students work their way through summer, regular employees get back to the original purpose of summer and go on vacation. Due to this trade-off, I was rece...
My Corporate Summer: Golf, the “get out of the office free” card
Written on July 28, 2009 at 9:29 am, by Ishani Nath
I recently discovered that golf is more than a cultural pastime. It is also a corporate “get out of the office free” card. With the relationship between gol...
My Corporate Summer: Who you callin’ “mister”?
Written on July 21, 2009 at 10:40 am, by Ishani Nath
After I finally finished stuttering through the list of phone calls and inputting all the incoming resumés, I discovered I had missed one crucial detail: I ha...
My Corporate Summer: Cleaning up a flood in bare feet while on Facebook
Written on July 14, 2009 at 12:17 pm, by Ishani Nath
Before I could close the evidence of my mid-afternoon slacking, my boss’ face popped up above my cubicle wall. In an effort to distract him from my computer s...
My Corporate Summer: You’ll find me in the ovary-friendly part of the office
Written on July 7, 2009 at 12:29 pm, by Ishani Nath
The office is laid out according to gender. This division of the sexes was unintentional, but it's had a major impact on the office dynamic. My section of the o...
My Corporate Summer: I’m a big kid now
Written on June 30, 2009 at 10:44 am, by Ishani Nath
My goal was to make the message sound like I am a competent IT professional who just happens to be away from her desk at the moment. This task was a difficult o...
My Corporate Summer: Monotony, 10 files at a time
Written on June 23, 2009 at 11:42 am, by Ishani Nath
I accidentally deleted 178 files from the company's drive. After obsessively hammering Control-Z to try to undo my mistake, I faced a dilemma: do I tell my supe...
