the year is almost coming to a close, i know for a fact that i will have another hell of a time at work. the work load on my department peaks at around fall and winter. with the new technology we are having, i'm sure it would yield positive results. However, even with the best testing and debugging, I am aware that problems may arise.
i love my coworkers, they have been so nice to me, and yet we remain a powerful voice in the company. our ideas and egos may have risen, but all is well going along the lines of improvement.
on another part, i have multiple nicknames at work, some are unpleasantly stupid, others may be even cute to women.
1. raccoon - by rochelle, she thinks my tan lines caused me to look like a raccoon
2. ronkar - by carlos, i find this lame and he continued to call me this
3. mumbles - by arnetta, she thinks i mumble so much that she started calling me the name
4. sunshine - thanks to lefleche, christie now calls me this, and carlos also followed suit
5. v man - by carlos and yogesh
6. hon - verna, she calls everyone hon.
7. ron - of course, it's my real nick name.
8. little ronnie - by maureen
as for the other light, i really love them cause they are so light hearted.
i told alma and the cleaning lady (sorry, i forgot your name) on my way in from lunch, "buenos diaz señoritas!" (don't even know if i said it right.) they replied with a lot more spanish than i anticipated (muy bien y tu?), they said it and i answered, i do not know what that means but have a wonderful day. and we all laughed.
interestingly enough, arnetta the ever curious about my relationship (well, not exactly the relationship, but the things we do. earlier today, we discussed wine, her current favorite is the sec Grenache Rosé Reserve from j filippi winery of rancho cucamonga. i told her that my current favorites are, firestone's reisling and rosenblum black muscat.
i told her about the solvang trip as well, she asked me a favor to get the wine menu for each place we go so she and her boyfriend ruben can check it out themselves. she wants to know details about hearst castle too and she wants some hand outs on it.
funny thing is that, whenever i forget what i was going to say, i automatically blurt out, it was carlos' fault (when his around anyway). and yes, he do that too.
another interesting thing was that, my job as a tester was actually to attempt to break i.t.'s baby. we proposed to run a very huge file (about 140MB of plain text in size). he was optimistic enough to say, bring it on. i created the file yesterday using the tools that were available to us, microsoft excel and microsoft access. using my knowledge and experience, i was able to come up with 620,000 unique entries (fake entries though).
brigita and sue would sometimes come to my desk, and instead of saying hi to them, i would push my chair farther from them and stare at them with a "frightened" look. brigita rolls the papers on her hand and hits me, then both laughs. of course i would laugh too before saying, what's up?
on another occassion, i would go to the break room to grab myself a cup of coffee, maureen and susan (different department) would be there and after i say hi, maureen would say, go back to work! i would look at susan and tell her, she doesn't like me. both laughs, and maureen follows with, of course i love little ronnie (she pronounces it as rani or something).
at times, when i'm talking to silvia about a certain aspect of the project, carlos would pass by and i would ask him, "right [his last name]?" he would ask "right what?" (obviously), i would tell him, "just say yes,"
he'll argue and say, "nooooooo i don't want to answer if you won't tell me!"
i would say, "it's all your fault carlos!" and everyone laughs. i then tell carlos about what me and silvia talked about (nothing to do with him anyway).
on another occassion, i once saw vickie after a long time hiding in the debug room, i told her, "vickieeeeeeeeee" and stretch out my arms as if to hug her because i haven't seen her for awhile.
she replies, "ronnnnnnnnnn" then proceeds to hug me. hahaha funny old lady. she would then ask me, did you got laid or something? you seem so happy today?
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