First Day @ Work

Sooooo finally after a month long search (actually 3 months considering my in between visit to Toronto) I finally decided on Joining Bharti Telesoft in Mumbai. Last one month in Noida was so much fun… The Great India Place (a huge mall in Noida) kinda became my second home.. so much so that the security guards had started recognizing me by face and if I would have stayed for few more days the restaurants would have started giving me discounts..

Rides in Delhi Metro were good too (I miss it more now that I am traveling in the wonderful Mumbai local trains where people almost sit on each other and it’s a celebration if u have empty space of 1 feet around u)…

BUT the best part in Noida was spending time with my niece.. she is a sweetheart….

Ok after all this background…… let me go to the first day..

I was told by the HR guy in Delhi office that there were some important training sessions scheduled so I have to be in the office from 11^th. I rushed to Mumbai on 10^th evening. It has been raining badly in Mumbai for last many days. And my first day was no different….I hate these rains.. honestly the kichad, getting wet in those nice formal office cloths… I mean whats so gud about it unless u r just sitting inside your house having garam Bhajiya. Don’t you think so? Or may be its just me!!

I reach office and I was the first person (of course after the watchman and the office boy)…. The HR girl to whom I was supposed to report at 9 AM had not arrived even by 9:30 .. before u start thinking of her wrongly .. later I discovered it was because of the rains that she got late… my boss (who took my interview) was in early and gave me some nice intro to the company and client … the office was almost empty till like 11… I was cursing the HR guy in Delhi who said there was some “IMPORTANT” training that was going to happen…. Grrrr I felt like showing him my training of kung fu.. but he got saved..

No training and I couldn’t even get a company laptop or Desktop (so I had to use my own personal laptop.. which I m still using as I write this blog.. hopefully I will get it soon..

The icing on the cake was knowing that GMAIL, YAHOO, ORKUT everything is blocked in our office L (God I miss my old job for this). I mean isn’t it like a ritual to visit your orkut page or yahoo mail every half hour.. I mean how can one survive without that.. but guess what I m surviving.. and I m sure there are many of you who are… but tomorrow when I have my own company I wont do this.. at the end of the day it’s the work that would matter.. and if the work would be interesting for the people they wont have time to go n waste their time on these websites..

By the end of the day I had made two nice new frens in my team, both are quite sweet and friendly and new to the company like me (so we shared the starting blues). So the day had its highs n lows.. still getting used to being here.. and I am sure it will be an interesting and challenging journey…

Do share any first day stories u guys might have..

KEEP SMILING :)