Second week at the new job. I'm still in training until the end of the week.

Everyone in the company is required to have a chat client installed on their machine with everyone in the company on their "buddy list". Today, one of the managers sent out a company wide directive that you *cannot* have special characters in your display name on the chat client. Is it really that big of a deal? This place is insane.

I also found out that I'll be taking a test on the training materials at the end of the week. They let us know that if we don't pass the test, we will be escorted off the premises on Friday. I'm thinking about failing on purpose to see if they really do it.