The Real First Day of Work?

Nope. But, I am writing this entry from my new cubicle.  So, maybe it’s time to start some work...soon.

I woke up this morning, and like the three other days so far, I woke up before my alarm went off.   So, I had time to take a nice shower and then I ate breakfast before I had to catch the shuttle to work.  Well, I get to work at 9am and Sandesh meets us and takes us to the cafeteria to meet Tanu for some morning tea.  Steve, Matt, and Larissa had to catch the bus to the Orion campus at 10; so obviously there was no rush.   10 o'clock rolls around and we take them to wait for the bus and we say our good-byes. I guess I will see them back at the hotel tonight...

  Around that time, Kishen, my new manager meets me and takes me around to meet a whole bunch of new people that I will be working with.  I am glad to be meeting people and finally starting something.   After meeting a few people, he asked me if my cubicle was ready and if I had my laptop.  Both of which, no.  We call Tanu, who called someone to get my cubicle cleaned out.  Someone had left all of his stuff in it, and it wasn't supposed to be there.  Security had no problem in taking everything and putting it in to cardboard boxes.

  Now, to get my laptop. I go into the IS room where my laptop was.  This was not a very big room; it was really only 20'x30' with one continuous desk running along the wall inside.  Yet, somehow, there were 17 people working in there.  Everyone was on a phone or working on a computer.  I really don't know how they maintained order in there.  So, amidst the chaos, they have my laptop and they configured it for me.  My email is supposed to start working soon, as soon as the servers update from the US mirror.  But, the internet works! So I am happy. Finally, I have some reliable internet to browse, not stealing from some unsecured Linksys network that we find at the hotel.

  Now it’s lunch time!  Sandesh comes to pick me up on his way to the cafeteria where we met Tanu and one of Sandesh's friends.  The cafeteria is in my building, so don't have to walk that far for food.  I am really enjoying the local Indian cuisine, the new flavors and spices are great!   But, like I said before, I really could go for a hamburger...  mmm, just thinking about it makes me hungry.

  That's enough food talk.  Back to work.  Wait, I haven't started anything yet.  After lunch with Sandesh and Tanu, I come back down to my cubicle and wait for Kishen to come find me.  We are meeting a few other people in regards to my mystery project.  Up to this point in time, I haven't heard anything about what I was going to be doing or what it really involved technically.  I have been given the same job description for a month now, and it was extremely broad and I needed to know a large range of topics.  After explaining the idea and walking me through the task that needed to be done when this project was done, I was finally given something that I wanted to hear.

  I will be working in a Linux environment, coding in Java and C++, using a MySQL backend, and making everything functional and look pretty in Adobe Flex. What fun I get to have!

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