Sunday, June 10, 2007
orientation (part 1)
Started reporting to new
organisation from 4 June, but have not officially start work as I had to attend a 5-day
orientation program.
yes . 5 days!Rather intensive right, and i thought my prev company 2 day orientation was the most intensive one I ever attended..
Here a quite run-through of happenings for
the past week
4 June 2007 (Mon)Reported to HR 5 minutes late due to late arrival of shuttle bus. Thought HR might be
kan-
cheong cos she had to meet
up with quite a lot of newbies b4 sending us to the vane for orientation , but she seems quite cool
abt it (at least it seems so over the phone), figuring out
ta ht I will be there by 8.45am and it's
ok.
compared to the prev company class size of
ard 40 newbies over the pass 3 months, the class size of this new
organisation orientation is more than 50 newbies who are recruited over the past month.
As usual, there were some ice-
breaking games and top management's introduction. CEO was not around and COO gave the speech instead. As for the games, it was through the 1st ice-breaking game that the executive from my department manage to "find" me. As she had out it, she was
instructed by our boss to look out for me and another executive who are joining the
organisation today.
Program line up for the day was rather the "usual" programme. Though there were two
exception where they invite the Union chairman to give a talk
abt the union
membership (hard to believe that the organisation would
encourage staff to join union), and they also invited a principle
executive from Community Chest to give a talk on the SHARE
programme. I had pledge to donate a small amount of my month salary to the community chest.
We also
played a game of "amazing race" -- had to find various
departments /places within the whole premises. We dun have
sufficient time to explore the different departments with the different
levels of the 3 main building, but managed to score 16/25. That wasn't so bad, as the best
group's score was 17.5 /25.
One thing I have to add. The food was
soooo nice. More
varities of food available at the
kopitiam for lunch (compared to prev work place), and the food they catered for tea breaks were so yummy, especially the cream puffs. We couldn't resisting taking 2
nd and 3rd helpings.
Proceeded to
Ai Qing Hai (
Musicdreamers) to watch Monsters 1st official performance at the cafe in the evening. "The Ex" and "Mr loud-
rence" also came. despite warning "Mr loud" that his voice is audible from the stage, he still purposely commented rather loudly that
Meilian sounded like Sun
Yanzi cos he felt that is a compliment and she should heard it. "The Ex" seems to favour
Jianhua over the rest though, (maybe
becos they both are
tek-
kos :P), and said
becos he is "
shuai".
Towards the end of the performance, our table had become a group of 10, with Sips,
Songyu and Leonard joining us. Guess they wanna be in time to celebrate
Jianhua's birthday.
Din stay long after singing
bday song as I gotta rush home to study. Yes , had to study the CD-
rom which contains the handouts for the next day orientation.
5 June (Tue)Managed o figured out where to took the Staff shuttle bus (not the shuttle bus for patients and visitors) in the
morning and figured the way from the drop off point to
the auditorium. Bumped into my boss as i was coming out from the car park, with earpieces (
listening to my mp3s) in my ears. Dunno should I screamed "Oh no" or not though technically speaking I had not start work yet and I was still early for class but being 'caught" listening to music by yr boss does not reflect that you are professional. Perhaps my worries were un
found for he din say anything when I pulled out my earpiece and "ha la" with him. He asked me
abt how's my
orientation and if I had met my fellow colleagues.
Programs for the day were rather "dry" compared to the previous day. But through the group activities, we learnt how to do value stream mapping and A3 report.
to be continued......(REFER TO PART 2)
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