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I thought nothing could beat my experience on my second day of work at Motorola - the afternoon was spent at a local Dave & Busters where the group celebrated a recent product release. So my second day, I spent the afternoon being paid to play games. Not bad, eh?

Well, how about going in to work, and when your lead comes in about 20 minutes after you get there, tells you to go ahead and go home? The Seattle area has been hit pretty good with snow (which I was told almost never happens), and everything has pretty much shut down, mainly due to the roads being so bad. As it doesn't snow much here, they don't have a lot of equipment to deal with it - and no salt to spread on the roads to melt the ice, meaning there are plenty of ice-covered roads, which are very dangerous.

Depending on how the weather goes, I may not be working tomorrow either.

It's a little disappointing, actually - I'm excited about getting going, but haven't been able to do anything. My PC isn't even completely set up, due to some hardware issues. But I was told this morning that they went ahead and ordered me a new PC, should arrive next week. Not that they're going to wait to fix mine, but that it'll be a more permanent thing.

Oh, and interesting thing - Microsoft has a company executive speak at each of their New Employee Orientations. Guess who mine was? None other than Bill Gates. Say all you want about him, but I would point out that in almost 7 years of working at Motorola, at a building right in the same complex as the corporate center where the bigwigs worked, I never, ever, ever saw Chris Galvin in person.

Wow.