Late yesterday night I arrived at the guest house where I was booked by my new Company and was provided with a decent room. Although the room as it stands now is on a twin sharing basis, they have promised that I’ll get a single room in two to three days time. I think by that time I would have already found a room for myself. As of now I’m looking for an apartment and a shift from the life I have been living till now. I plan to go for a full fledged room instead of paying guest accommodations. Negotiations are on and hope to find a decent flat by next week.
I have some 12 more days during which I can enjoy the comfort of the guest house (it’s got AC, fridge and room service to boot). But as all good things come to an end I’ll have to move on… let’s hope the transition isn’t painful… ;)
Today was good! I got a full featured laptop and a cubicle which is at least twice my previous one. I’ll be getting the systems tomorrow so today was basically no work. One of the best aspects is nothing on the web is blocked and the speed is simply mind blowing. I downloaded the IE 7 from Microsoft site at over 1 MBPS. Now that’s something, right? Anyway My PM is the same guy who was my first interviewer and the mere sight of him sent me on a roller-coaster ride. He seems to be brilliant and a nice person so I don’t think there’s ever going to be problems.
One of the best things about the joining process was its simplicity. With my last employer we had to fill up a plethora of forms and it took almost whole day. Here it didn’t even take two hours and that too unguided. The only guidance we received was from the bank PR who came to us telling us details about the Account we had opened up and the “Escalation Matrix”. As if someone ever uses that. Anyway I must say that the overall simplicity and the efficiency are sweeping me off my feet and I’m ready to land face first ‘because I know I don't have a granite floor to face.
More so the team members seem quite friendly (though I haven’t had the time to meet all of them but in the introduction round the all seemed very friendly and the team member from the opposite cubicle also says the same thing). I still don’t know what I’m going to be working on but frankly who cares… I know that whatever work comes my way is going to be good and challenging. No second opinions about that!
The first day on the job and I get a laptop! And to top it all the laptop is amazing, with Core 2 Duo and 1 GB of ram and ATI Radeon mobility inside I think it is much more than I could have ever asked for.
To top all of the happenings of today, my room-mate is still missing… he should be here by now but I don’t know… maybe he went to his friend’s home.
Enough of the current place and job, going back to my old team I discovered that there is still no change in the way it works and all I can now hope is for the ways to change and that the “Creator” finally realizes the things that he has been doing wrongly and change himself. Although it sounds highly implausible but still one must never give up hope… wait, what am I saying? I gave up almost all hope that the “Mordor” and its occupant will ever change (for good that is). Let’s see what happens and cross the fingers.
Anyway I’m going to sleep now and hope that I can be more regular in blogs, now that I have a laptop so I’d not be restrained to write whatever I wanted to in office… now I can come home and write all I want to in peace and with lot of time at hand.
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