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My friend Eric expressed concern that my blogging would taper off since I probably couldn’t blog about work at Microsoft. Well, there’s good news. I looked up the Microsoft policy on employee blogging, and the only requirement is that bloggers use common sense! Sweet! That’ll be easy, considering I don’t have any common sense.*

So orientation was pretty fun. Most of the people on my team were baffled that I was in orientation for 1 1/2 days – apparently orientation had been redesigned at Microsoft to provide new employees with (the start of) a better on-boarding experience. In all, I was really impressed – the team did a good job of making new employees feel welcome, meet each other, and learn about company life at Microsoft. While there’ve been a few bumps in the road, it was mostly smooth.

But all throughout the first day, there was something about the orientation leader that I couldn’t put my finger on. The second day, I realized he reminded me of someone…

Yes! Patrick Swayze’s character in Donnie Darko! And truly, he was encouraging us to reject the ideology of fear (of Microsoft) and embrace the emotion of love. Honestly, he had the look, the voice, the inflection…

But really, it’s been a good week so far. More stories and updates to come later.

*Consumers of this entry should not interpret writing within to mean that the writer has little, no, or misguided common sense. The writer is merely expressing himself through writing and having a good time, and does not intend to communicate or imply, however remotely, any negative sentiment toward Microsoft or my orientation leader. I like my new job, and I promise I was paying attention during the legal portion of orientation. Readers should not take this aside to have any basis with legal, lest I get a stern talking to from them. Copyright me 2006.