9 am in the morning and i am ready to get into the car with my room-mate. I just sat quietly gazing around as the car raced towards the office. There was a mix of excitement and nervouseness about the things to follow. I hardly knew the manager and the team was also more or less a complete set of strangers to me. With no background of the project going on and my role into the same, things were pretty dizzy for me. That itself posed as a challenge infront of me to get into thick and thin of things with the knowledge and experience i have gained in my last project. The day started with an introduction to the reporting manager (special thanks to my roomie). She tried introducing me to others but in vain as it was 9:30 and no one had turned up. It seems people were still riding the wave of holiday weekend. She was looking for a machine for me to start upon. We entered a training room stuffed with 10 computers with couple of them being occupied. She enquired for a free computer and alloted the same to me. Asking a neighbour to login for me as my id was still to be created. I guess this was the most horrible think to start your new assignment. No machine alloted for you, login id still to be created. It seemed either things were completely mis-managed or i entered early into the assignment then planned. Anyways, I couldnt have made a difference by cribbing.
Finally, people started roping in and around 10:30 room was almost packed with 8 out of 10 machines occupied. I was a bit happy with the feeling that there are quite a few new joinee's but after having a word with couple of people, i found that people are seating in this room from a few months now. This feeling sank that i too may have to hang around in such a situation for months now. Finally, she (manager) arrived again to introduce me to other team members. Looking at my face, she soothed me saying that its just a temporary arrangement for me and i may get a cubicle in couple of weeks. Those words brought a broad smile on my face. I met all my team members. They were scattered all around the floor giving me an idea about the messy state of overall setup of things. She asked one of the team member to give me a KT session but he was to busy to take up her request. He excused saying, he would send me some documents and that should be enough for me as of now. I strolled back to my place to find that my machine got locked and the person who logged in is nowhere to see. Without waiting, i rebooted my machine and asked another inhabitant to log in. In the meantime, i got chance to meet one of my old colleague from mangalore. He proved helpful to me by giving his password so that i can login each time by myself without waiting for others. A mail popped in my inbox and the link for documents was there. I scrolled through a few documents parallely surfing net.
By 5, i have wrapped up almost half of them and still no one to guide me for my future course. I tried calling up my room-mate, assuming it to be end of day just to know that he is not planning to leave before 7:30. There I am stranded in the room for another couple of hours. With nothing going right on day 1, i thought of atleast writing a blog.
I sign off today in the hope that next few days have something better in store for me.....
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