Saturday, June 1, 2013

Replaced at Work

The safe arrived today...

21st century struggle. Man v. Machine
With the safe in place, the guys here don't have to surrender their keys to me at the end of every day, and we can maintain compliance with our access keys' security standards even without my presence. Which makes me totally superfluous. I could be recalled back home at any time.

The guys are working hard, and one of the drawbacks of working for an American company is that you have to work through every Hungarian holiday. The entire town shuts down, even our building. We have to arrange for it to be open especially for us, and the first guy who arrives has to let everyone else in. Here's a snowball one of my coworkers threw at the window to let me know he was waiting outside: