236/365 (Sept 20, 2011) – It’s been three months at my new job now. The Federal Government is not “Mac-Friendly” and when I first arrived with my MacBook in tow the admin for the program was adamant that the machine could not stay. Guess what…it’s still there…she’s not though 😉 She retired after my second week and I just quietly kept on using it there. When the curious questioned me I basically let them know that the past 5 years of my work life – most of it working for them on contract – exists on Mac programs and it would be a ridiculous inefficiency to make me transfer everything over to a less efficient system. Not only that, but some of the intellectual property that I created for them I retain ownership of and don’t really want to exist on their shared drives. Seems to have worked. I have plugged it into the system as much as I can manage, and although I can’t access any shared drives or use the Exchange server on it, I can do pretty much everything else I need to do, and in a much more efficient manner. The rest of it I just have to turn my chair and I have access to on the PC.
Although I am grudgingly regaining some of my fluency in Windows when I am forced to, my MacBook happily sits on my desk and at least half of what I do, I do on it. lots of people still ask me questions about it, mostly because they either have Macs at home or are planning on getting one soon, and it’s become a normal part of the office landscape so for the most part most people don’t really even “see” it anymore.