{"id":24343,"date":"2007-11-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/11\/29\/the-first-day-at-microsoft-dont-just-stand-there\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T10:00:00","slug":"the-first-day-at-microsoft-dont-just-stand-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20071129-00\/?p=24343","title":{"rendered":"The first day at Microsoft: Don&#039;t just stand there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA second installment in a very sporadic series titled\n<i>The first day at Microsoft<\/i>,\nrelating stories of funny things that happened on people&#8217;s\nfirst days at Microsoft.\nToday, we hear from Employee&nbsp;Y:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"m\">\n<p>\nOne of the things you have to do on your first day is get your\nphoto taken for your identification badge,\nand I waited in line with the droves of other new college interns\nstarting that same day.\nAs a result, the line for photos extended out of the room\ninto the parking garage.\n(ID badges are distributed from a room\nin the basement of one of the parking garages.)\n<\/p>\n<pre>\n     |-----\n     | CAR\n-----+-----\n  * * * * *\n     +-----*\nID   |      *\nroom |----- *\n     | CAR  *\n-----|----- *\n     | CAR  *\n     |----- *\n     | CAR  *\n     |----- *\n<\/pre>\n<p>\nAs we waited in line, a car pulled up and wanted to park in that\nempty space near the door that people were blocking.\nThe entire line of college interns just stood and stared in stunned\namazement when they realized that the person driving the car was Bill Gates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis stalemate lasted a good ten seconds before I spoke up and said,\n&#8220;Hey, everybody. I think Bill is trying to park in that empty space.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat was enough to snap people out of their frozen state.\nA hole was made, Bill parked his car, crisis resolved.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI like to amuse myself by thinking that\neach of those interns that blocked Bill\nfrom getting to the parking space cost the company\nmore money in wasted time\nthan the intern will make all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second installment in a very sporadic series titled The first day at Microsoft, relating stories of funny things that happened on people&#8217;s first days at Microsoft. Today, we hear from Employee&nbsp;Y: One of the things you have to do on your first day is get your photo taken for your identification badge, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-24343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A second installment in a very sporadic series titled The first day at Microsoft, relating stories of funny things that happened on people&#8217;s first days at Microsoft. Today, we hear from Employee&nbsp;Y: One of the things you have to do on your first day is get your photo taken for your identification badge, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}