{"id":184,"date":"2012-04-27T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T09:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-04-30T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T08:17:16","slug":"the-usual-it-job-startup-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/2012\/04\/27\/the-usual-it-job-startup-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"The usual IT job startup tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web.jpg\" alt=\"Translink staff bus\" title=\"CIMG3498_web\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web.jpg 480w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Translink staff bus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Tue, 24th Apr 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.translink.co.uk\">Translink<\/a> staff bus from Europa Buscentre at 8:45 (which I&#8217;ll probably do every morning I go to work for the next two months) I arrived at Translink&#8217;s office at Milewater Road in the northeast of Belfast near the shipyard the famous <em>Titanic<\/em> was built at.<\/p>\n<p>Paul McGrattan, my supervisor here at Translink, gave me some information about the department I will work for: <em>Information Services (IS)<\/em>. Probably this is the only IT department which does not have IT in its name. \ud83d\ude1b I learned about the department&#8217;s structure and general tasks, the core network infrastructure and some other general IT stuff. After being introduced to the colleagues (whose names I can&#8217;t remember, except for maybe three or four people) I was shown my desk:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3499_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3499_web.jpg\" alt=\"My desk\" title=\"CIMG3499_web\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3499_web.jpg 640w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3499_web-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My desk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before getting a user account I had to read the User Acceptability Policy (UAP), which consists of rules and guidelines on how to use the IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>I also had several nice talks with my new colleagues. One thing that really fascinates me is that people in Northern Ireland are so friendly. Even when just asking someone for the way he notices you are not from here and shows interest in where you are from and what are you doing in Belfast (as <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/author\/skillen1105\">Ren\u00e9<\/a> already <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/2012\/04\/23\/my-first-impressions-about-belfast\/\">posted<\/a>). I can&#8217;t imagine experiencing something like this in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_186\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"480\" caption=\"Translink staff bus\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web.jpg\" alt=\"Translink staff bus\" title=\"CIMG3498_web\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web.jpg 480w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/files\/2012\/04\/CIMG3498_web-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>[\/caption]\n<p><strong>Tue, 24th Apr 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After taking the Translink staff bus from Europa Buscentre at 8:45 (which I&#8217;ll probably do every morning I go to work for the next two months) I arrived at Translink&#8217;s office at Milewater Road in the northeast of Belfast near the shipyard the famous <em>Titanic<\/em> was built at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,1206,393,561,338],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-belfast","tag-colleagues","tag-people","tag-translink","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}