{"id":2060,"date":"2010-10-25T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2010-10-25T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T13:54:08","slug":"rackspace-rookie-o-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/rackspace-rookie-o-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Rookie-O (in Hong Kong!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d meant to finish writing this way back in July… but I failed at that. Now is a good time to talk about Rookie-O as my again new colleague Andrew Hutchings<\/a> (Buy his and Sergei’s book on MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development<\/a>!)\u00c2\u00a0just went through the same thing (but in London instead of Hong Kong) given by the same trainer (Hi Eddie!).<\/p>\n

Rackspace<\/a> is the second employer I’ve had that has some kind of new hire training (the first being Sun<\/a>). I am, of course, not quite counting Salmiakki<\/a> as new-hire training for MySQL (although I probably should). To quote from the Wikipedia<\/a> article: “Although the rumor of the heart attack was a hoax, the drink may still cause harm. The strong flavor almost completely masks the presence of\u00c2\u00a0ethanol<\/a>, and the drinker may not realize he is consuming a drink almost 40% alcohol by volume (80-proof<\/a>), leading to possible\u00c2\u00a0alcohol poisoning<\/a>.”<\/em> A promising introduction to the company.<\/p>\n

\"Monty,<\/a>

Monty, M\u00c3\u00a5rten and Kaj with Salmiakki singing Helan G\u00c3\u00a5r at the MySQL User Conference Japan in 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

I could possibly say something about the Sun New-Hire training… but I’m just trying to find something positive to say – and I can’t. I got a bit of hacking done? Seriously.<\/p>\n

Actually coordinating a time to attend a Rookie-O (Rookie Orientation, the Rackspace name for new hire training) was rather tricky. There was one right before the MySQL User Conference<\/a> back in April (not the best of timing), one during an upcoming team meeting (again, not ideal) and one that got organised in the middle of everything for the office in Hong Kong. So, I headed to Hong Kong.
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\"Hong<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hong Kong office is relatively new (late 2008) and there were people there who hadn’t gone through the standard Rackspace Rookie-O (Orientation).<\/p>\n

\"Rackers<\/a><\/p>\n

It was rather cool to hang out with other people who worked for the company – and in totally different areas than I do. I did get a better understanding for how the rest of the company operates and the people involved. The training itself was useful and substantially less geared towards not-my-job than Sun’s was.<\/p>\n

The good news is that Andrew thought it was useful too. Pretty impressed so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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