Ever since I got word that I was going back to work, I’ve been more nervous than I care to admit. The company that I will be contracted to is the same one that spawned the Project of Elemental Evil. Fortunately, it’s an entirely different physical location, an entirely different department, and an entirely different group of people. Also, I had advance word that interpersonal relationships over there were “pretty tranquil.”
After one day, it looks to be pretty tranquil indeed. My teeny little desk was waiting for me, it had a computer on it, and I was able to get most everything I needed set up with fewer than three calls to the help desk (my personal metric for success). I took it as a good sign that there was a lot of laughing, joking, and mutual poking of fun at the group’s weekly meeting. Not mention the fact that they had a weekly meeting, with an agenda, no less…and they more or less stuck to the agenda.
So far, so good.