Work update!

Well, I've made it to week two, I've survived the training, and I'm thinking I'm on the last legs of being guided through with someone watching over me every move I make.

Today I was on phones for the first time, the past few days, I was on the ticket entry system, and today I was put on phones, tomorrow I get the fun task of putting the two together. Yayness! It'll be stressful, but I'll have someone there who's been there for a while now. I must say though, that I really REALLY like the atmosphere of working there. It's so happy-go-lucky... most of the time. If a server crashes, there's drama, but its usually short-lived. I also, today, got to watch Scott configure a Sonicwall firewall. Which is very cool. He's been at the company for 7 years or so, so he's super smart, and knows what he's doing. I want to transplant my brain with everything he knows. Seriously.

The days are going by super fast now too, which can only mean that the faster they go by, the sooner I'll be in Canada... for the weekends anyway. :) Which is of course, a good thing. I can not tell you how much I miss my family up there. Canada has its Thanksgiving on the 2nd Monday in October usually. My family all went up to Hubby's sister's house for the festivities on Sunday, and I so so so missed out. At this point, I'm just hoping I'm able to get back there by my birthday!

Anyway, dinner is ready. :) I've gotta go eat. It is a good week.... so far.

First Day

So... Today was my first day of work. It was not spectacular, however I did meet a lot of people. A lot of people who tried to teach me their entire system in 8 short hours.

My head is a little bit hurty, but I just took some Advil for that.

I wish they would have given me a better orientation. I got the 5 cent tour. Someone else got the 10 cent tour, and I'm still looking for my refund...

Apparently the guy training me scared off a possible recruit last week. He showed up for one day, trained with this guy and said "sorry, I'm not coming back tomorrow, I can't handle this". I think I can handle this job, and possibly excel at it.

The client I'll be working for has a contract with us starting January 1st, so I'm not too worried about that. For security/safety purposes, I can't disclose who they are. I could, but then I'd have to kill you. ;)

Anyway, it was a rough day, and I'm so so so glad its over. My supervisor apologized like 5 times and explained that "Monday's aren't usually like this!"

So I do hope it gets better. I'd really like this to be a job I'm excited about. :)