There were close 30 new hires starting the same day. Pleasant surprise as I saw 2 familiar faces in the meeting room. Also found out that the other new hire in my team is also staying at Bukit Rimau. We've started car pooling, sharing the burden of petrol usage/toll charges and driving requirement. Not so pleasant surprise thereafter was the fact that we had to set-up the laptop ourselves as the company has a self-service policy. The company had provided us with brand new laptops straight from the box. So there goes one whole day's work with a 15 minute tour to the car park. You can imagine how stressful it was for a IT idiot like me :p
Work area is rather similar to that of my previous previous company. We're even using the same brand of phone. Don't like the toilet though, rather old and dodgy looking. Saving grace for it was the fact that they had toilet seat covers like those in the airplanes as well as motion detector for the toilet roll. Hygiene people! Hehe.
So high tech hor? :p
So the rest of the week was spent waiting for/applying for accesses to the many many HR and Finance systems. Also found out later on that I will not need to start work at 5am as my role will mainly be on standardisation/re-engineering of processes with a small portion of my time dedicated to the initial business support role. Hence lesser time required to liaise with the business segment based in US. I will be attending more trainings/orientations in the next few weeks while waiting for my accesses to be approved.
On my 2nd day there, my team had Thai food as a welcome lunch. The Thai restaurant is located in a food court area like less than 5 minutes drive from the office. Food was good, and better still that they had a little bazaar of stalls selling varied items such as hair accessories, children's clothes and my all time favourite, books! It was just a small collection, but nevertheless was very happy to have bought a Jodi Picoult book for only RM20. :)
On another note, it seems that I will need to start packing lunch from home as there's limited choice within walking distance. Only 5 places to be exact and all of them are rather pricey and have the food court feel/taste to it.
P/S Fiza : Mana my healthy and simple to prepare recipes? ;)
wonder which company you referring to ;D i like the toilet part, hygienic!
Eiyer, the hygienic part ends there la. Previous previous company still better for the toilet. Hehe.