Intel In(sui)side

Brian Baldwin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:57:18 +0000

For the past two days I have been doing some on-site work at Intel out in Hillsboro. Don’t get your hopes up, I’m not working on the next Blue Man Group ad (or anything exciting like that). Anyway, when I found out that I was going to be working out there I got all excited about the idea of being inside the belly of the worlds largest chipset manufacturer in the world. I mean come on people! INTEL, RIGHT?!

Immediately after I walked in I realized why I’m not an engineer. Take the movies Office Space and The Matrix, and you’ve got Intel. It’s no wonder all of the work that comes out of here is stale, just look at the work conditions! I’ve also noticed that there are three types of conversations: 1) Conference calls; 2) Discussions about the meeting you were just in/headed to; 3) Uber Geek Speak.

The uniform:
20 year old Nike’s
Lee Jeans
Brown woven leather belt
Faded polo shirt
Indiglo watch
White socks

In hindsight though, I don’t really know what I expected. Just the thought of working at a place like “Intel” to me sounded kinda geek sheik, and Tron. I thought there’d be things like segways roaming the halls, GPS badges that tell you where you are, android assistants, and guys doing the robot in the lobby wearing clean suits. The one tree in the forest here though is the free coffee and soda… However that’s kind of the life blood of any LAN party, so it comes as no surprise.

Oh yeah, and this morning I almost destroyed my computer… The red square is where it was when the coffee spilled! I shouted the F word and snatched it up faster than Kit pinching the last dip… Sorry Kit…

UPDATE.
I just went to the cafeteria to get lunch and walked passed a table of hyper-nerds playing Uno! HAHAHAHAHA, this place is all-time! It’s like summer camp for geeks, only they get paid to be here!

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Intel In(sui)side