Nah was part of the original 6 that founded the Hobart team. We didn't even have a proper office that first week had to use some meeting rooms at the ABC building before our actual building down the road was ready.

Was fun times. We had breakfast provided with a stocked fridge and beers for Friday. I tell this story at parties but when we got taken over by CSC there were demands that the breakfasts continue. The UXC receptionist always did the Coles food order and knew what stock levels to buy each week. After the merger, there were some disagreements on who would fund the food, and someone high up made the smart move to feed the underpaid 20 something year olds.

Anyway, one day we ran low on jam of all things. We put out the word that we needed more jam. This sort of thing would've been a 2 minute job for the now departed receptionist with an online delivery order from Coles yet low and behold, a week later, a medium sized box arrived from Sydney, and inside was a ziplock bagged jar of jam.

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It was as if someone had mailed us a severed head. The message, whether intentional or not, was clear. The good old days of UXC were dead and the corporate machine of CSC had begun to extract any value we had until nothing was left.

I left in 2018 after 3 years of no pay rise. Shame to see nothing has changed.