Three years at Apple
I’ll never be able remember the exact date from year to year, but it was three years ago on Martin Luther King Day that I started at Apple[1]. It’s certainly been an interesting three years.
I should bring in three pounds of apples, but they’re free in the cafeteria. Or maybe I should bake something with three pounds of apples, but since I’ve never baked anything with as much as three individual apples, that might be dangerous. I could bring in three pounds of apple juice, but that seems silly. Plus there are the looks you get from the fine folks at Albertson’s when you try to weigh the bottles of apple juice in the supermarket aisle. You’d think they’d never seen anyone trying to celebrate their work-anniversary holiday before….
[1] That was actually the third time I’d gone through employee orientation at Apple, since I went through it twice as an intern. I wonder what the record is, and whether if I go through it enough times I get the next one free.
Serdar Kilic Said,
January 16, 2006 @ 3:14 am
Three years already! I’ve been following your blog since you were working on the SSCLI at Microsoft! Time really does fly.
Michael Rawdon Said,
January 16, 2006 @ 10:22 am
My start date is always easy to remember, since it was the first of the month (but not this month!). I’m coming up on 7 years here, which would put me in rarified company if it weren’t for the fact that I know so damn many people who have been here since I was in high school.
I went through employee orientation half a time. That’s because I went to training class my first week here. And back then orientation occurred on two days, several weeks apart (I forget why). So I went to my first day of orientation the Monday after I started, and then completely spaced going to the second day a few weeks later.
Which unfortunately means I never got my “welcome to Apple” T-shirt, which has always bummed me out slightly.
Chris Espinosa Said,
January 31, 2006 @ 1:59 pm
I hold the record, Eric, and remain disoriented nonetheless.
John C. Randolph Said,
February 3, 2006 @ 12:44 pm
Congratulations on three years at the Happy Fruit Company! Thanks for creating so much shareholder value.
-jcr