Good news - it looks to be (almost) certain that I am going to have job. So I will no longer have to write "housewife" next to occupation on application forms, and I'll only have two days a week to spend writing my novel (watching things on Netflix) once my work permit is sorted out (i.e. in 2 months time).
Office attire
Today I went to the office to meet a few people and find out some more about what they do/what I'll be doing. Everyone is really nice and friendly, but there were two clear highlights to my visit:
1. The HR lady I was meant to meet was off sick so couldn't make our 10am meeting. However, she had just slept off her headache and was in the office by 11:15am, when she called me to catch up. Like that would ever happen in the UK.
2. I met a manager in the tax team who is from the US and was wearing shorts with long socks. And if that wasn't amazing enough, the shorts were quite a bright shade of yellow! He is basically Bruce's fashion hero.
Actually there was also a third remarkable thing - my Bermuda boss has a Nespresso machine... but you can't buy the pods for it here, so they have to stock up whenever they go to New York. Ridiculous.
Only in Bermuda...
Last week I was highly amused to hear a birthday shout out... in the supermarket... for a customer. Going to have to make sure that they know when it's my birthday!
At the weekend, we also saw someone in the mall queuing up to speak to CableVision. And he had a bird perched on his shoulder... I don't think it was exotic enough to be a parrot, but it looked a bit like the bird that Brett gave Libby on Neighbours (Dahl?) about a million years ago.
A galah!
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