Day 2, The day I almost get fired

Day 2 I stroll in at 9:30 and settle in at my desk. I still haven't been given a login to the timeclock system. I frantically looked for my passport last night to satisfy the document from list "A" of the I-9 form. I accidently found my social security card which I thought was lost for good, no need to find my passport as this will suffice. It is actually so old that my signature is from when I was about 9 years old and still signed "Danny" on everything.

Just before lunch I was challenged to play the office pentathalon vs. the reigning champion. It consisted of 5 events around the office: tic-tac-toe golf, darts, bocce with golf balls and stress relief ball, throwing quarters against the wall, and finally bowling the stress ball into a paper cup. I won in convincing fashion (beginner's luck?) and was crowned the new champ.

After lunch I went down to HR and I met the dept. head (she was out yesterday) who informed me that I needed to sign the voluntary arbitration form. I told her I didn't sign it before because it said it was voluntary. She said she would have the VP of HR get back to me on that issue and I met with him a bit later in the day. He told me that the voluntary part was that if I didn't want to sign it I could go home. I tried to assure him that I didn't have an issue with arbitration, but just had an issue with being forced to sign something that specifically stated that it was voluntary. I asked if we could add in the line "as a condition of employment" but that was not an option at all. I asked if it was possible to speak with the legal team about that request and did, but was told the same thing over and over. I could either "voluntarily" sign or I could go work somewhere else. I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but in the end I really didn't have a problem signing away my right to a trial as I have never sued anyone in my life, but I just had a major issue signing something that I didn't agree was absolutely truthful. I was thinking that I was really starting to make a name for myself, but maybe that wasn't a great idea the way I was going about that.

A co-worker asked me for an opinion on some SQL code, and I was happy to finally have something meaningful to do. I mapped out the tables in question and put together a solid query which ended up being exactly what was needed. Very satisfying to be useful for the first time!