First Week At New Place

You know sometimes I really feel that life is really a dilemma. When we have a job we complain, no job, we complain. When we are busy with our job, we complain, too free also complain.. lolx.. or is it me only?

Anyway, life at Fuji Xerox is a breeze. A super breeze because I simply have nothing to do and you know when ones get too free, time is sickeningly hard to pass. Oh well, perhaps it's really week 1 so it's still some honeymoon period. Nevertheless, I expected to do some simple administrative work even on week 1 or to clear whatever the predecessor had left over but nope, simply NOTHING to do. No admin work, no left over jobs. So there I am, sitting there at my table... watching people... day dreaming... reading catalogues (staring at them actually without anything going into my head)... struggling to open my eyes... I wanted to surf the net but it's really not good to do that during the first week. Btw, I cannot MSN or check personal emails in the new place becos they are using intranet so some sites like those mentioned above and facebook, friendster and of cos, porns are disallowed. To stop wasting my life away sitting there, I signed up for a flat fee of $5 for MSN on my mobile. Lolx... This will help to kill some time I hope.

Anyway, first day was ok. Orientation so the day was well spent. Tuesday was terrible because my laptop was not ready and I simply sit on my desk to day dream and reading those technical catalogues for about 7 hours. When time is up, people are still struggling in office and I simply walk off on time daily.

I asked my colleagues and boss if there were anything I could help. Not that I did not initiate it but they either said 'later' and 'wait' after which, the whole day just passed without passing any jobs to me.

Boss said they are all busy rushing a report so they cannot teach me now. No time to even brief me on anything? To let me help? To let me do simple work? Hmmm.... I felt useless and under-used.

However, I must say that people here are friendly and nice. Although I still miss my ex-colleagues alot but I also know such friends will not exist in this office.

Anyway, tomorrow is the second week. I sure hope that more stuffs will start to roll in. At least time will pass faster. =)