Ramblings of a digital girl...

Days of ye old'

2011-08-28T01:21:00.000-07:00

Back when i was a tween, i briefly worked for a web design company in North Sydney called Internova. I was living the dream, working as the web assistant, doing corporate cool stuff. So, when staff started dropping like flies, i didnt really give it much consideration. But i should have.

Slowly, my pay date kept being pushed back. They started paying in cheques. And not always was i able to cash them. Sometimes they bounced. The company started paying 'to cash'. At the time i was naive, and didnt realise that this indicated there wasnt enough money to pay us. People around the area started hesitating to do business with us. But still, i was in my warm fuzzy bubble of corporate bliss.

Then we took over travel land. I personally delivered a $1,000,000 cheque to the bank (unsure if this was the ACTUAL cheque that sealed the deal). It was a glorious moment holding that cheque as the most money i had seen in one place prior to that moment, was a few thousand dollars. Of course Internova couldnt actually afford to buy travel land and subsequently they went bankrupt all over again.

By the end of this saga i was performing 4 roles in one because there was so few staff left. Accounts & debt collecting, front desk & reception, web design assistant & pa to the MD. I was abused constantly by ex travel land staff, and hassled by media agencies. I cant remember what i was thinking at the time, but the best decision i made was to leave, even after being offered a 50c per hour pay rise (i scoff at that amount now but being a tween, it felt like a lot). The good news is that I was obviously level headed enough to realise that the company couldn't pay me the piddly $7.76/hr i was on then, so how could they afford me at 50c more per hour?!

I somehow got thinking about this experience today... so set about a google search. I subsequently turned up this article. It turns out things went pear shaped a lot earlier than i realised.

That experience shaped my future employer choices. And if it wasnt for the few friends i made along the way, i think it would be a memory worth forgetting forever.

The Canberra Country Mile

2011-08-23T03:36:00.000-07:00

Since moving to Canberra, i have noticed many things. The cold, the weird left hand turning road rule, the lack of mobile reception, and the vehement battle of North Vs South. One of the most noticeable things however, is the lack of willingness to travel. Because i live more than 3 minutes drive from my place of employment, i live at the end of the earth. The concept of actually having to spend a small amount of time getting places horrifies the die hard Canberra folk. This boggles me. Having lived in the Country for a good portion of my life, it took me 40 minutes just to get to school!

I have been quite vocal with my point of view regarding the Canberra folk and the distance philosophy... Im dubbing it the "Canberra Country-Mile Concept", or the CCC for short (just because Canberra is so fond of acronyms).

One of my colleagues pointed this post out to me which sums the CCC up very nicely.

google plus - overhyped?

2011-08-18T03:45:00.000-07:00

To pay attention to my google plus account or not... that is the question...

I feel it has been very over hyped - much like WP7 really... so do i spend a few minutes and log in each day, or do i leave it and log in on those "rainy" days?

Klout says im influential on the topic of #coffee

2011-08-17T04:12:00.000-07:00

There is no doubt that i love talking. No doubt that i love social media and the connections i make using such amazing digital tools. But Klout says im influential on #coffee. While im averaging 1 to 2 cups a day right now, im fairly new to coffee, and i only started drinking it because i got annoyed at being limited to hot chocolate whenever i went out anywhere (and no-one does milo:-S). But if im supposedly influential on the topic, perhaps i should rant and rave about it more often!

Why fingers go pruney

2011-08-16T01:09:00.000-07:00

One of my facebook friends posted this article today. Until now, i have never really given much thought to why my fingers go pruney. And to be honest, i thought that it meant that my skin was telling me it was time to get out of the water. Turns out, its more of a defense mechanism!

Heres the URL

Fluffy documents

2011-08-15T04:12:00.000-07:00

So.... fluff... i find myself fluffing out documents just to fill space. Why? Because my uni project supervisor insists that the rough rule is 1 mark to 1 page. So... here i have a part of an assignment worth 10 marks, and i must fill 10 pages - no matter if i feel i can state the same content in half those pages!