First day at Office

Finally after all the wait!!

Today's my first day at my employer. Well, it was just a pre-briefing session; work officially starts after the Raya holidays. It was great to meet up with so many of the friends I met during the assessment center, it was more like a reunion rather than a introduce-yourself section!! Of course, I was a bit pai seh cos I never kept in touch with them since March, but I've lost their contacts whilst in London. This is another long, long story which I don't think I'll divulge to the world :P I also got to meet with new people that were gonna be my colleagues in the future. HR also told us that there was another briefing for another group this coming Friday, that a Harvard grad will be joining in. OMG!!!!

So while we were at it today, we also had to do a medical as well in a clinic opposite the office. OMG, the doctors and nurses were all so old that I think the total age of all of them added up is around 600, haha!!! And they performed, what I think, was probably the most extreme medical I have ever done!! The basic checkup ie blood pressure, urine and X-ray was done, but we also had to do a ECG and blood test as well. Basically what the electrocardiogram, ie. ECG for short, does is to test for your pulse to see if you are a normal human being or your heart feels like beating whenever it wants to beat...just kidding!!! But it's somewhere along the lines lah. They diagnosis involves sticking suction cups on your chest to test for your pulse and it left marks on it. Wahh, damn 7 ugly ler those marks haha!!! It looked like love marks!! (Note: friends told me that. I don't know how love marks look like. No, positively negative and ixnay on the knowledge of love marks :) )

By the time we went back to office, it was almost 1pm and raining heavily. We went to the cafeteria for lunch but everything was gone already and we didnt want to brave the rain, so we decided to continue with the briefing and finish it ASAP. Also, there were a few people that were fasting anyways, so might as well adjourn early since they also can't eat anything and just wasting time while we went and eat :P

Then we went through this whole stack of documents that we had to sign and all, and then HR discussed renumeration with us!! WE NOW HAVE A REVISION OF SALARY!!! Luckily the low initial salary didn't put me off this job,haha!! If you guys wanna know how much was the initial salary was, it was lower than an auditor in the Big 4, but now its higher than them :) and we also get a ton of benefits as well which wasn't fully disclosed in the briefing, but it was substantial. :)

Now onwards to the first day of work.

P.S. Off to Outward Bound Lumut soon...though it won't be as 'slaving' as the previous one. It seems that the most taxing one was rowing the wailer around Pangkor....hmm we'll see about that :P