Stop me if you've heard this one. An engineer for a $50B multi-national company (let's call him Cog) volunteers and is selected for an extended overseas assignment. Cog's wife quits her job; he prepares his house and kids for the move. The Company gives him an estimated departure date of February 1st.
February 1st comes and goes.
March 1st comes and goes.
Bureaucracy sucks. However, it finally looks like Cog is in the last layers of red-tape. The purchase order has been signed and approved. About all that is needed is an assignment letter and a charge #, and then it's off to England for Cog and his family.
The continuing story of Cog's adventures in the far-away lands of Sheffield, England will unfold on these pages. His sampling of the fabled local cuisine. His basking in the endless sunshine of the British Isles. His disillusionment as he finds out that the food sucks and it actually rains all the time. But for now, he maintains his deranged optimism that "All I need now is a pony".
Cheers,
2 comments:
Welcome to the dark side.
"Fabled local cuisine" in Sheffield, England? Sound kinda scary to me...
Bon Voyage!
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