My First Day of Work...

After working for 3 days, starting from Wednesday, I finally have the time to blog again. Why do I use the word 'finally'? Well... 3 days probably were not that long afterall, but it seems so long for me eversince I started work. One day of work is already considered long enough to me, not to say 3 days. I dunno how I am able to go through the following weeks... Coming weeks will always begin with 5 consecutive days of work then followed by 2 days of rest. Then it will start all over again with 5 consecutive days of work and then 2 rest days.

On my first day of work, I woke up at 7am but still felt as if I have not slept much during the nite before... I think I was probably too nervous about my first day of work...

Surprisingly, I actually walked to the bus-stop along the main road of Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 to take a bus to work... I did not take a cab although I really felt like it as I hate wearing heels to walk about!! Kekeke!! I have never done this during my skool days to SIM!!!

While on my way in the bus, I suddenly remembered that I have forgotten to ask the recruitment consultant on who I should report to for work... so I called her on her handphone to ask. In my mind, I was thinking "You have been waking me up from sleep by calling me on my handphone on the past few days, this time it's my turn to wake u up!! Kekeke!!" =P But I doubt so that she was sleeping lah... since she also have to go to work.

I am so glad that I was not late for work... It's so not me!!! Cannot believe it manz!! Hahaa... Anyway, similarly I have to exchange my ID for a security pass in order to enter into the Group HR department. Upon arriving at the Group HR office (which I thought I would be working in), the girl who attended to me during the last time when I went for my interview attended to me again. She then asked if I know how to get to MediaCorp Technologies... so I said no. She then brought me over to another building to the office where I will be working in. I then felt quite disappointed that I am not stationed in Group HR department. Upon entering the MediaCorp Technologies office, that girl then pointed to a small room and told me that I will be working in this room. My heart dropped immediately!! Hahaa!!

So I entered the room and saw one of the interviewers who interviewed me on the other day. Her name is Angis and she showed me my table which is directly outside the boss' room... my PC directly facing the boss! Sianz 1/2 lor!! Then I was also introduced to the boss... called Jane. I think she should be around mid 40s bah... Anyway, Angis then brought me around outside the room to be introduced to the rest of the employees. To my surprised, all the people there are so old... all aunties and uncles... I think some can even be grandparents already. The only person who is young there is that intern from Nanyang Polytechnic... a guy from the same School of Business as me... my junior!! Ahaaa... I think he is the only one who have a similar frequency as me... the only person who will understand how I feel working there.

Anyway... I din really have the chance to mix around on my first day. Furthermore, the first thing that my boss talked to me about in the morning was that I am supposed to keep all HR issues confidential to myself and within the HR department only. She said that as a HR personnel, we will always be the first to find out about the top management's instructions and confidential issues like salaries, etc. So I should not let other know about all these things. And thus I should not be too friendly with the other employees sitting outside. She even emphasized that the people outside will tend to be very friendly with me and then get close to me in order to find out things from me... so I should not mix around too much and be too friendly to them.

After that, I immediately felt so restricted in making friends. Sianz... Luckily, Angis is quite friendly to me. She even treated me during lunch on my first day. My first lunch was already tah-baoed back to be eaten in the HR room bcoz the canteen is always very packed between 12pm to 2pm.

My job scope was quite easy on my the first day, which includes alot of filing and checking some documents by tallying the details on some bills to the invoices. As my boss thinks that I needed more space to do my filing, so she instructed me to sit at my another colleague(Regine)'s table for the time being, while they will arrange for a bigger table for me on the next day. Heng ah!! And so this is why I could logged onto MSN on my first day of work... Hehee... Bcoz Regine's table is at one corner by itself which the boss and Angis cannot see me.

The boss also asked me if I know and heard of Six Sigma... so I told her that I heard it in skool before but I could not remember what it is about. She then commented something like "How can you forget so fast?" Then she handed me a Six Sigma cd-rom and asked me to view it so as to have a better understanding about it and then to help her search for training materials like books, cd-roms, VCDs, DVDs, etc. for her from the Internet. And she specially mentioned about this book called "Tools for Sucess" by Alice Turner... and wanted me to help her search for this book as she wants to buy it.

Well, my first day of work was very relaxed... as the boss actually left the office 2 hours before 6pm... And actually I have finished my filings, so Angis told me to view the cd-rom on Six Sigma since the boss asked me to do so... So I viewed the cd-rom on Regine's PC until 6pm... read until I wanna fall asleep, still I don't quite understand what Six Sigma is... but it's so relaxing!! Easy money... Ahahaa!! At the same time, I searched the net on the book called "Tools for Success" and realized that it is by Suzanne Turner... not Alice Turner lor.

When it's 5.55pm, Angis actually asked me to get ready to go home. I was thinking "So good ah!! Heng, no need to work OT. Hehee!" So I went to packed up.

But before I left, Angis asked me how I felt about work... so I told her that I felt slightly lonely as there's only 2 people I have interacted with. Furthermore, Jane mentioned that I should not mix around too much with people outside... so I also felt restricted on making friends.

She then told me that it is like that here bcoz Jane doesn't like her staffs to go around and chit-chat too much or gossip due to confidential HR issues.