Comments | lethie: Thoughts on my first week...

lethie

Thoughts on my first week...

Dec 11, 2006 03:16

My first week at my new job was quite fantastic. There were flowers waiting for me at my big C-shaped desk, plus a writing pad portfolio thingy full of company-related stuff, like a flyer on the group car insurance policy, and a page on how to order my business cards (!). My desk was full of more office supplies than I ever thought I'd need, ( Read more... )

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ducks December 11 2006, 03:43:03 UTC

OMG what a freakin' fantastic job. Can I work at your company?!?!?!?! What kind of consulting firm? (I'm not sure if you mentioned it in one of your previous posts). As I consultant, I'm always interested in what other consulting firms are doing!

ducks December 11 2006, 03:43:20 UTC

BTW, Congratulations again! :)

lethie December 12 2006, 03:06:35 UTC

I don't think I did mention it, actually. It's Watson Wyatt Worldwide. We consult on things like pension plans, benefits, stuff like that - a "global human capital and financial management consulting firm". Check out the "services" link from the main website, and you'll see what we do! I'm in the pension administration department.

peemonkey December 11 2006, 04:34:43 UTC

I don't log my hours, but that's just because Marketing is a non-billing department. ;)

anonymous December 11 2006, 04:35:19 UTC

That's Awesome :) Congrats!!!

~*~Jody~*~

anonymous December 11 2006, 04:36:33 UTC

I'll now go back to not commenting on Steph's LJ friends posts.... lol

lefthandsnake December 11 2006, 21:55:36 UTC

Hooray! Good for you!

The first one, by the way.

saltwatersound December 13 2006, 12:05:03 UTC

We bill the same way. Every minute of my day - even when I take 5 minutes to pee - is billed to a project. The most common question heard in my office is, "what project do I bill these hours to?"

lethie December 14 2006, 00:48:12 UTC

Pee breaks and such are coded as "non-billable", so it's not quite as bad at our office. But, we do have to make sure we've got 1660 billable hours a year, which works out to about 6.7 billable hours a day, apparently (I haven't done the math myself). So far, I haven't been able to achieve this :).