the first day of the rest of my....secondment...

ok well i think i am long overdue for some additional posts...this one is (as you can read) about my first day of work!

I’m sure many of you want to know how things are at work…well my first day of work was like the first day of anything. The usual mix of butterflies and not being able to sleep the night before because you’re also really excited. Except its a lot worse when you are halfway around the world trying to adjust to the time difference on top of it. After waking up bright and early (2:30am to be precise but I hit the snooze until 6am tho- haha), I got ready and headed off for the 2.5 minute trek to the office. On the way, I ran into not one but TWO people I know! What a good start to the day – yay! I only know like 8 people in total so thats like 1/4 of my peeps! After being approved by the security guards I headed up to get familiarized with my new office. Lucky for me they were doing the kickoff to their new induction program. After learning who Jim Turley is and all about “people/quality/growth” for the like 30th time, we were finally granted the real essential – laptops (um old school back breaking dell 610s! eek!), securIDs and…dum dum dum dum…our building passes. Here they put all the ID pictures into the directory - no opting out. At least hopefully when people see mine and then meet me, they can think I look better in person..haha. After we got all settled we still had a couple of hours until the end of the day so my buddy, Max took myself and one of the other JITs (just in timers…that’s what they call us out here) Martin around the SGM (Strategic Growth Markets) floor and a half and introduced us around as well as helped us get oriented and showed us how to print, etc. Its crazy – here to print you actually have to swipe your ID card at the printer where you sent your document in order to get it to print out! They are also super strict with their network too – myspace, aim, etc are all blocked! Oh well…I guess it doesn’t really matter since at most client sites we can’t even get an internet connection. Seriously. Haha..as all us “JITs” have been saying, welcome to technology…10 years ago. Well after getting settled in, it was actually already time to leave. The mandatory workday is only 7.5 hours! Wooo! No point in staying past that my first day, especially since I was starting my first client the very next day. After packing up, I headed home, had some dinner and “retired” quite exhausted by 9pm. Hmm..I could get used to this…