E.arn M0-ney as-y0u Br0ws.e!

I started working at the RGU Department of eLearning on Monday. Well, "working" is stretching the term a bit - so far I've been given a short induction module to read through and have spent the rest of the time going around the Internet as normal.

Monday was just meant to be an introductory day in which nothing much happened. Yesterday morning the department director came through and assured me that they would have something for me to do that day. By lunchtime I was beginning to suspect that something might be amiss, and I went through and asked if they had any ideas yet. Apparently the system that I'm going to be using needs a few corrections first, but it should be done by when I go to work this morning. Not that I'm complaining too much - so far, my pay has been as follows:

Money earned by reading about online learning: £10
Money earned by browsing the Internet: £80

A delegation of academics from Saudi Arabian universities and representatives from the British Council were being led around yesterday and shown the offices - I can't remember the reason. The supervisor introduced the permanent and temporary staff, saying that everything was very stressful just now, so I decided I had to look busy and did so by clicking on random things and checking them against an imaginary paper record (a copy of RGU News, actually) which seemed to do the trick.

Today, though, I'll hopefully spend the time typing things in to the system - the RGU uses two systems just now, and my job is to take part in unifying the two by migrating the accounts. I've already looked at the student accounts I have access to and have so far resisted the temptation to change my former schoolmates' exam marks.