My last day at Zeacom

Today is my last day working for Zeacom, destined to move to my new position with ANZ National on Monday. It began as a day like any other day. I walked in the door, said good morning to Matt and Wayne, then the rest of the helpdesk as I went to my desk.

Wayne asked me to come into his office, so he could complete some of the formalities on a checklist he had. Wayne told me that a morning tea was organized for me at 10:30am this morning.

As 10:30am came around, everyone from support gathered around, and so did a moderate number of the rest of the staff. Due to the time of the year, unfortunately a lot of the team were still on holiday and out of the office. Nevertheless, there was a significant presence of people.

Wayne made a speech about me to everyone, and I followed shortly afterwards. I was given a card and the company gave me a $50 Westfield voucher as well. Zeacom has organised some morning tea goodies which I consumed with the rest of the staff.

Deepak Kulkarni has been away on leave for about 6 weeks at Zeacom and is due back on Monday. As part of a very elaborate joke on him, the support department has removed his entire desk and replaced it with a couch. His flight from Sydney has already been cancelled, so this will no doubt add to his stress levels on his return.

For lunch I went the Subway Grafton. The Manager there Ravi seems to recognize me. Undoubtedly because I eat there quite often.

At the end of the day, I had handed off my keys and mobile phone to Wayne, and emptied out my desk of various items and returned them to their originating departments. I gave most of my stationary to the new tier 1 agent Levi.

Earlier in the week I had sent an invitation to the Zeacom staff, and a couple of selected friends that I used to work with at Datacom for drinks after work at the Cardron Speight's Ale House in Mount Eden.

After work I pretty much met up there straight away with Matt, Dolly, and Harpreet. Alan Mason from Datacom arrived, as did Mark McIntee from ExpressData (Formally Datacom). Anisha was there with me of course as well. Jolene (Formally Datacom) also arrived later on in the night, with her dispatcher at Urgent Couriers Jamie.

I had a couple of drinks and generally a good time tonight. I am going to miss working at Zeacom, with the only reason for leaving is purely financial reasons. All departments in Zeacom has been fantastic to work with; Support, Sales, Development, Installation and Training, and Marketing. The Management team in support is second-to-none.

Additional Information: The goldmining town of Cardrona was formed in 1862 when a group of miners stumbled upon gold in the Cardrona Valley. The first settlement, the Upper Town, springing up where the historic Cardrona Hotel, built in 1863 still remains.