First Day at Work Report.

Met Melly Welly to go to work together. Reached my new workplace rather early... so tmr can wake up later. =)

8 of us started work today. 5 FSOs, 2 Communications officers and 1 girl from AGD. VOC should have switched jobs earlier! then can join me! of the 8 of us, the 2 comm officers, AGD girl and one FSO were making early/mid-career changes. So left us 4 fresh grads. The training room was set up with tables for 4, so we formed the "freshies" table while the career change ppl sat at the other table. So there was this guy from sociology who applied for the job last nov and got offered the job in jan! and got a scholar too who turned out to be the soci guy's pri 4 classmate!

One of the freshies looked quite cute and turned out to be Aki's schoolmate!

AC: "Oh... i'm from RE."
Me: "OOH! then do u know Aki?"
AC: "THAT SUPER SMART GIRL AH? WHO DUNNO?"

so i msged Aki, who said she agar agar noe who he is and asked me to say "Hi" to him for her, to which he replied "WAH! constant reporting ah?" lol... anyway, he has braces too! I won't be the only freshie who needs to take time off for dental appt. =) All the FSOs are in different depts, i'm the only one in a functional dept. the other 4 are going to political depts...

Lots of talks. The security head was very strict. must be careful when i start work! My pass photo very ugly. but expected. totally not photogenic. the Library head was very funny and kept emphasising that he/the library is there to help us so we must feel free to utilise it. Lunch sucked. We're gonna venture out to Tanglin Mall tmr.

While talking to the other guys, found out that for the interview, we were interviewed by the heads of the depts that were likely to take us in. Wow... so from the 2nd round they already had an idea of where to send us i guess.

Had an informal session with the director of HR. He said something like "some of u might be asking yourselves 'why never get into HR?' " (in ref to him being a nice guy i guess) and was looking at me. dunno if cos i almost ended up in HR or cos he was sitting directly opposite me so he was looking at me when he said that.

We had early dismissal! left work at 430 today! but Aki's schoolmate was asked to attend a dept farewell party for the guy he was replacing so he had to stay back. =P

tmr's another day of briefing... then will get to go to our dept at the end of the day. Heard that the ppl in my dept are quite nice... let's see tmr! =)