Starting a new thread to document the delightful things I am finding out about joining the tech team at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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@skinnylatte Your posts about your work make me feel sad to go sit at my desk and sit through meetings... but they also let me live vicariously, so please continue!
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@m I have lots of meetings too.. sometimes there are animals around
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25. We are having a great taco truck come in for staff lunch. I still pick sea otters. Even though I really love tacos. I think I can eat 3 tacos in a few minutes
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26. I am in a meeting for ‘sea-nior’ leadership
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27. Someone on my team took me on a walking tour. There are many office buildings. I walked by the space for the seafood watch program and they had signs like ‘you’re jawsome!!’ And ‘thanks for all the kelp!’
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28. I went to meet some of the people who work on the science and they were like ‘sounds like you’re really aligned with our work!’ And that’s the nicest thing anyone can say to me (my boss sent out a welcome email in which he talked about how I’m really into birds and whales)
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29. There was an internal division competition called Punderdome.
The person who writes most of the puns on our social media won it
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30. While standing in line for the employee taco truck catering I met a guy who has a database of best tacos around here through to Santa Cruz. He has 90 spots right now. I’m going to befriend him
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31. Hallway convo.
‘Why are you so tired?’ ‘I’ve been carrying leopard sharks’
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@skinnylatte I feel like this should all be part of the recruiting pitch. I’m ready to move to California and volunteer to be part of the organization. It just sounds incredible.
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@skinnylatte Are you also responsible for public relations in this regard? Just curious given I keep hearing about your place on the DougDoug channel (and of course about your former best otter mom Rosa).
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@Natanox no I am not
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32. I attended a standup meeting among the otter people. It was otterly awesome
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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼♀️ (he, him, his)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte Otter than awesome standups, how are you enjoying your new job?
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33. I walked by a poster. ‘There’s no aluminum in this cage. It’s not nickel either. It is a nickel less cage.’ (Photo of the actor)
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34. I’ve been added to a queer group. ‘The aqueerium’
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@skinnylatte You can never leave this job. Ever. Those are the rules now.
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@lemay I’ve met so many people here 10, 20, 36.. years omg
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35. I asked someone what a conference room was called. They said (seabird name). Unprompted, she grumbled: totally inaccurate. The room only has photos of pelicans. It’s not right. It’s the wrong bird. No attention to details.
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@skinnylatte are you going to be physically in the Monterey area because if so then we're going to be neighbors and we'll probably bump into each other at one of the aquarium-social-sphere parties
