Another Farewell

June 09, 2006

Another sad day today as I work my final day at Andrew. Following is a copy of my farewell letter to all my friends at work:

With the end of my contract comes another good bye to all here at Nortel/Andrew/XXX, or whatever the office is labeled with next week!

Thank you to all those that made the last six months a pleasure for me to work here with my friends rather than work mates. It was certainly a good experience coming back as a developer rather than a manager! It's still a unique workplace here, and certainly a different world to the few weeks I spent at CSC last year! With my move to Selera, I am hoping for a similar environment, at least the part where I will be working with friends. And of course with my first assignment being a project with Jarek, I'm looking forward to cooking with gas!

Thanks again for the last six months. I am sure I'll be in and out of this office regularly, or bump into you all at the Friday afternoon watering hole.

As always, a few drinks are planned at the uni-bar this afternoon.

Thanks,
Graham.

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Farewell Party

May 08, 2005

As we all know, our little office here in Wollongong is soon to be closed. So that is a very good reason for a party :)

These are some photos from our latest farewell party held at The Novotel in Wollongong. And yes I DID get the award for "Most likely person to 'waste' their redundancy cheque"!

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Foosball Champions

March 05, 2005

More pictures.

Since we were told that our office was going to be closing in June, and we were all likely to be out of work, productivity has fallen quite dramatically! Unfortunately, they still want us to deliver the product we are working on in the time frame we had previously committed to, but without some sort of incentive scheme, its proving difficult to motivate the staff!

One such attempt at motivating and keeping up spirits was a lab wide foosball competition. It has had one good result, that of bouying the spirits of people. But as you can expect, has done very little for getting the job done!

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Australia Day Party

January 25, 2005

Well the day before Australia day we were lucky enough to be provided with the opportunity to leave the office for a while and party down the beach. There was plenty of food, some cricket, frisbee, footy and of course lots of sun!

And being only a few metres from the ocean, there was also plenty of perfect swimming to be had!

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Final Golf Round

December 12, 2004

Golf this week was at Shellharbour Links and in the form of Ambrose. It's a rpetty tough course and Stewart and I were going along pretty well for the frist 5 or 6 holes. We were putting the pressure on the favorites with keeping a par score. But then something happened and we started to slip backwards fast! I think we then put too much pressure on oursevles thinking we were doing badly. But of course that was only doing badly to Darren and Justin who ended up winning by more than 7 strokes!


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Christmas Party

December 05, 2004

Party time is upon us, and this weekend was the work party. We had a lot of fun with this one, and with a theme of HAIR, it was up to your imagination on how you dressed up! And Mick actually shaved the top of his head and created the comb over affect! It was quite a brave move!

Not sure what time we finished at the leagues club, but we backed up then to The Oxford and kept going there until we were kicked out at closing. Giving Paul M (aka Phillipe) just enough time to meet wonderful Franchesca!

More photos from the party can be found in the photo album.


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