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♥ Part & Parcel of my Life ♥
Monday, March 17, 2008

It's been a long long time since I ever blogged in office.

17th March 2008 (Monday) marks my first day in my new division. To be exact, I am only half a day old here today. This is because in the morning, they had a seminar with customers and the entire division is not around, thus, they told me to come in only after lunch. Being the honest me, I told my boss about this and came in early in the morning to report to my old division, continued to clear some stuff, and off for lunch I went. Reached my new place at 1+ and started to unpack everything from a few boxes onto my table. I cleaned the table so many times till it smelt exactly like the wet tissue. Fragrant! I also brushed my keyboard, like nobody's business, cos' it was extremely dusty! Finally got settled down at about 2pm and waited and waited for my buddy to be back from lunch. He came back at about 220pm and I asked him what I should do. He told me to wait. He's gotta settle down and think of what to let me do.

This is so unlike my previous division. The first day you come in, they give you one entire stack of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) to read. I remembered I read them for 2 weeks before I had any form of training. Life then was miserable. Imagine reading something over and over again from 9 to 630 each day for exactly 10 working days! Hell! I was briefly introduced to everyone, realised that the division is very huge, could hardly remember any names except for people whom I already knew. They did not even give me any form of stationery, so unlike before. I had no calculator, no pens, no anything and I have not bothered to ask from them because I have no use for them at the moment. When I need to use, I will ask from them.

And so I waited for my buddy to tell me what to do. The clock reads 6.02pm now and I have done nothing as yet. He asked me if I am ok with my Excel skills. He will be surprised as to what I know how to do man! I am well trained in Excel after all the reporting I have done previously. He said he has 13,000 accounts for me to do some classification tomorrow. And readily I agreed. I wanted to tell him what is 13,000 since I have consolidate about a few hundreds thousands together before.

I dislike sitting here, nothing to do. Feels so left out, so lonely, exactly like the first day at work in an entire new place. I surfed and surfed the web till I am getting quite bored and also quite paisei to not be working. A colleague whom I previously knew asked if I was acting busy. I asked her how did she know. She said she could tell from my eyes. Really?! I was really acting busy lo. Nothing for me to do ma.

Remembered my buddy told me we have a division meeting on Thursday. He says he will introduce me to all 100+ staff. I am so apprehensive. I hope I don't have to stand in front of everyone and say "Hi, I am Grace, your new colleague. Nice to meet you." I will stutter!

I am just waiting for 630pm and off I am to Marriott Hotel for a sumptuous International Buffet Dinner on J's tab. She's promoted and she's treating us to dinner. Yummy!! Can't wait for the clock to strike 630pm. And if I still have nothing to do tomorrow, I shall continue blogging. :)

The DIVA ♥