One of the great things about working at GSK is the flex hours. There are core hours of 9-3 Mon-Thur and 9-12 Fri. As long as you are there for that time, however you fit in the rest of your hours is up to you. They particularly encourage condensed work weeks: I typically fit in an extra hour per day so that I only need to work Friday mornings.
This comes in handy when, say, a new Harry Potter movie comes out and you already have commitments during the evening. You then have the option of seeing an early afternoon showing. Needless to say, the movie was great! I will definitely be seeing it again soon, this time going for the IMAX experience (sadly the first showings were already sold out).
In preparation for Goblet of Fire, I rewatched the first three movies on consecutive evenings last week. Prisoner of Azkaban is still the best of the bunch (but GoF now takes over top spot across the series), but I have to give the kids more credit than I had been for the first two. For some reason I had carried around the impression that the acting wasn’t all that great, but really it’s just fine. The only problem with watching all four in quick order is the discontinuity in their growing up. Just have to assume they don’t change much in while they are in school and have their growth spurts in the summer months not chronicled on film. :0)
The reason I couldn’t see a Friday night showing (and be able to avoid little kiddies in the theatre) was for GSK’s own Yule Ball … they just call it a Dinner and Dance … but really it’s a xmas party — with flair! (Sorry, recently watched Office Space). The place was decked out like a swingin’ 40’s club, complete with band, singers, and dancers with too much energy to burn. Very impressive set up.
It was a fun time — great company, good food, and a chance to meet coworkers’ significant others and see them outside of work. It’s funny being the young one there, where the parents say I’ve still got so much time before I need to worry about marriage & kids & mortages and all that fun stuff. Yet at the same time, there’s so many of my friends around the same age getting engaged, married, and now starting to have kids. Who knows, maybe such days won’t be all that far off in the future afterall.
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