630
630am.
I dread waking up so early in the morning.
Today's the first day reporting for work at my attachment company. Really dread it to wake up so early, whats more to have to dress in long seelves and long pants. Can't imagine going on like this for 6 months, or even after i graduate and working in the corporate world. Guess its a time to get use to, guess it a time to make sure this way of life stays permanent in my system, guess its time to make it a habit, a drill, be sub-conscious about it. Is this how life is going to be after i graduate?
Maybe thats life?
I took a taxi as i wasn't really sure of where or how the company looked like. Besides it good not to be late on the first day of work as the elders always like to say as to give a good impression. But being interns how good an impression will the people in the company think about us? "We're Trash!" thats what one of my friend told me. Just imagine the company is getting 20+ interns each with a payroll of $750 per month. How much are we sucking the companies monthly expenses? We aren't even full fledged engineers! Guess they could really use these extra expenses on something more productive and cost-effective. Just imagine the number of new pentiums or LCDs they can replace in the office each month rather than let us interns sit infront of the pc day by day surfing net and sleeping after lunch?
Its the first day of everything. First day of work, first day of school for the new year. Bishan Road was really jammed, constipated. I really wondered why are there so many schools in Bishan. Even RJC wants a piece of Bishan right besides RI. Could cementry grounds really be that fertile to grow more sprouting geniuses? The taxi uncle cursed as he drove like a daredevil, just to meet the 730am ERP to CTE. "Heng ah 0727 am" as he just crossed the gantry. Ya i bet he's gonna bet 0727 on 4d. Guess he was lucky today morning to fetch 2 guys to the same place of work one after the other.
At least I saw familar faces at the lobby.
25 of us, wah thats quite alot of "trash" this company is getting. Early morning we were all briefed by this super nice HR executive. This pregnant lady looked like our mom into this company, patiently helped us with the admin and various orientation. 1 of the interns got to work under her department which became the envy of the guys i was talking to in the morning. The morning passed like a breeze under her care until our various supervisors came to fetch their "kids" from the "child care centre". Not to my surprise i was the last "kid" to be fetched, together with me were 2 other girls from the same department i was assigned to.
The instructions wrote "Office Attire" and mom kept nagging to wear nice nice on the first day of work so to give the boss a good impression. So i wore long seelve shirt and pants. And the boss of the whole department wore a company white polo-t for work todae. What a great impression it gave me. I looked like the most "pro" guy in the whole department. Somehow i noticed that the most zai people in the department wore the most "lock kock". Maybe they were too zai le, so don't have to attract attention by wearing nicely to work. Or maybe they spend 24/7 in the office that they practically couldn't bother about image.
It didn't took long for me to notice that my desk was directly infront of my supervisor. What great feng shui i had! Whenever i looked up from my puny desk i would see my sup's name hanging on his cubicle wall, i was like worshipping a tablet of a god every now and then. To my surprise the person who "fetched" us wasn't my sup. My sup was on leave, still in holiday mood ah, but i know i wasn't.
So we "trash" were squeezed in a long desk with pcs that counldn't use msn or icq. Ok, i bet i wil find a way to "disable" this, as i saw the lao jiaos in the office using msn. The prior briefing by Liang, the person who "fetched" us made us felt we were supposed to be very pro to be part of their various teams in the department. Who the team leader was, their role, blah blah, I felt like Voltron, "I'll form the leg!" "I'll form the body!" "And I'll form the head!". (Voltron the cartoon with robot tigers)
So time in the afternoon took pain to pass. We had no work. At least i know my sup's not around. Me and the 2 girls stoned. I forgot how many times i surfed the pages of the company website. I started to doze before i surfed to various online forums to read. 1 of the intern girl told me we had a project briefing at 4pm, by the time i looked at the clock it was 425 le, and yet no briefing. 1hr to knock off time! i quickly sms a fren to encourage him to "tong" 1 more hr. He replied "hey reading doc... see u outside later". At least he had something to keep him busy.
525. Time to knockoff. The intern girl came and told me, "Hey they want to have briefing now!" WTF, then my phone rang, guess cannot meet outside le.
Liang gave the project briefing. Guess he was the 2nd boss of the one team, at least he wore more "lock kock" then the rest. "So we've come up with 2 projects to let u guys choose. We want to make sure that ur resume meet our project so we maybe reshuffling u guys abit". Huh? Does that mean i won't get to do the project i chose to come to your company? That doesn't seem like how it was supposed to work. Then he went on blahing the project details while emphasizing that he wasn't trying to scare us. That it is was difficult yet easy. ??? Saying some terms that he thought year 3 students should know but we don't, and assuring us that it wasn't important even though he mentioned those terms many times in the project. Maybe that was his "stress" policy, to give us a briefing at the time of knockoff when we are the most tired and most eager to leave. Not to give us work the whole day until now, then to see how well we perform under this condition. No wonder he one of the "lock kock" guys in the department.
"Any questions before u guys leave?"
"What time do we report tml and do we have to punch?" asked the intern girl. (punch to clock working hours)
"So whats the time the HR pple asked u guys to report? Cos i dunnoe wats the official time to report for the company everydae leh? i always work until very late then come not so early in the morning. Then we also nv punch for like.. 9 mths? Here very corrupted one. But i think u guys better be official for the starting period of the attachment, dun be corrupted like me..."
Oh okie
By the time i left the building,
630pm.
I dread waking up so early in the morning.
Today's the first day reporting for work at my attachment company. Really dread it to wake up so early, whats more to have to dress in long seelves and long pants. Can't imagine going on like this for 6 months, or even after i graduate and working in the corporate world. Guess its a time to get use to, guess it a time to make sure this way of life stays permanent in my system, guess its time to make it a habit, a drill, be sub-conscious about it. Is this how life is going to be after i graduate?
Maybe thats life?
I took a taxi as i wasn't really sure of where or how the company looked like. Besides it good not to be late on the first day of work as the elders always like to say as to give a good impression. But being interns how good an impression will the people in the company think about us? "We're Trash!" thats what one of my friend told me. Just imagine the company is getting 20+ interns each with a payroll of $750 per month. How much are we sucking the companies monthly expenses? We aren't even full fledged engineers! Guess they could really use these extra expenses on something more productive and cost-effective. Just imagine the number of new pentiums or LCDs they can replace in the office each month rather than let us interns sit infront of the pc day by day surfing net and sleeping after lunch?
Its the first day of everything. First day of work, first day of school for the new year. Bishan Road was really jammed, constipated. I really wondered why are there so many schools in Bishan. Even RJC wants a piece of Bishan right besides RI. Could cementry grounds really be that fertile to grow more sprouting geniuses? The taxi uncle cursed as he drove like a daredevil, just to meet the 730am ERP to CTE. "Heng ah 0727 am" as he just crossed the gantry. Ya i bet he's gonna bet 0727 on 4d. Guess he was lucky today morning to fetch 2 guys to the same place of work one after the other.
At least I saw familar faces at the lobby.
25 of us, wah thats quite alot of "trash" this company is getting. Early morning we were all briefed by this super nice HR executive. This pregnant lady looked like our mom into this company, patiently helped us with the admin and various orientation. 1 of the interns got to work under her department which became the envy of the guys i was talking to in the morning. The morning passed like a breeze under her care until our various supervisors came to fetch their "kids" from the "child care centre". Not to my surprise i was the last "kid" to be fetched, together with me were 2 other girls from the same department i was assigned to.
The instructions wrote "Office Attire" and mom kept nagging to wear nice nice on the first day of work so to give the boss a good impression. So i wore long seelve shirt and pants. And the boss of the whole department wore a company white polo-t for work todae. What a great impression it gave me. I looked like the most "pro" guy in the whole department. Somehow i noticed that the most zai people in the department wore the most "lock kock". Maybe they were too zai le, so don't have to attract attention by wearing nicely to work. Or maybe they spend 24/7 in the office that they practically couldn't bother about image.
It didn't took long for me to notice that my desk was directly infront of my supervisor. What great feng shui i had! Whenever i looked up from my puny desk i would see my sup's name hanging on his cubicle wall, i was like worshipping a tablet of a god every now and then. To my surprise the person who "fetched" us wasn't my sup. My sup was on leave, still in holiday mood ah, but i know i wasn't.
So we "trash" were squeezed in a long desk with pcs that counldn't use msn or icq. Ok, i bet i wil find a way to "disable" this, as i saw the lao jiaos in the office using msn. The prior briefing by Liang, the person who "fetched" us made us felt we were supposed to be very pro to be part of their various teams in the department. Who the team leader was, their role, blah blah, I felt like Voltron, "I'll form the leg!" "I'll form the body!" "And I'll form the head!". (Voltron the cartoon with robot tigers)
So time in the afternoon took pain to pass. We had no work. At least i know my sup's not around. Me and the 2 girls stoned. I forgot how many times i surfed the pages of the company website. I started to doze before i surfed to various online forums to read. 1 of the intern girl told me we had a project briefing at 4pm, by the time i looked at the clock it was 425 le, and yet no briefing. 1hr to knock off time! i quickly sms a fren to encourage him to "tong" 1 more hr. He replied "hey reading doc... see u outside later". At least he had something to keep him busy.
525. Time to knockoff. The intern girl came and told me, "Hey they want to have briefing now!" WTF, then my phone rang, guess cannot meet outside le.
Liang gave the project briefing. Guess he was the 2nd boss of the one team, at least he wore more "lock kock" then the rest. "So we've come up with 2 projects to let u guys choose. We want to make sure that ur resume meet our project so we maybe reshuffling u guys abit". Huh? Does that mean i won't get to do the project i chose to come to your company? That doesn't seem like how it was supposed to work. Then he went on blahing the project details while emphasizing that he wasn't trying to scare us. That it is was difficult yet easy. ??? Saying some terms that he thought year 3 students should know but we don't, and assuring us that it wasn't important even though he mentioned those terms many times in the project. Maybe that was his "stress" policy, to give us a briefing at the time of knockoff when we are the most tired and most eager to leave. Not to give us work the whole day until now, then to see how well we perform under this condition. No wonder he one of the "lock kock" guys in the department.
"Any questions before u guys leave?"
"What time do we report tml and do we have to punch?" asked the intern girl. (punch to clock working hours)
"So whats the time the HR pple asked u guys to report? Cos i dunnoe wats the official time to report for the company everydae leh? i always work until very late then come not so early in the morning. Then we also nv punch for like.. 9 mths? Here very corrupted one. But i think u guys better be official for the starting period of the attachment, dun be corrupted like me..."
Oh okie
By the time i left the building,
630pm.
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