Monday, October 31, 2011

Day 304: First Day of (New) Employment

True to form, I woke up every hour last night so when I actually needed to wake up I felt like shit. Then the stitch thing was still aching on my side. Still, nevermind that, I have a place to be awkward and new at, let's go. So I did the prerequisite too eager chit chat with the secretary as she ushered me to the break room to await the rest of the people in my training group. There are only six of us in all so it didn't take long for us all to arrive and then we were herded to the training room.

The dreaded "get-to-know-you" shit survives everywhere apparently because sure enough we had to start with that. We paired off and had to ask our partner a set of questions. Actually, my guy was really easy to talk to and it wasn't much of a chore, but I loathe standing up and talking in a formal manner so that bit kind of sucked and was uncomfortable. Second to my dislike of meet and greet activities are learning shit and share which made up a good portion of the day. One of the three trainers would cover material and then we would have to do some tedious task or another to show we both understood the concepts and could communicate said concepts effectively.

To be honest, it works. I definitely retained a lot more information than I probably would have if we had just covered the material and moved on. I didn't feel like the smartest kid in the class though, let's just say that. We left today with the promise that tomorrow would be a lot more hands on. The thing is, I don't know if that is a good thing or bad. I do know that a portion of what they are planning to cover tomorrow I have already completed on my own because I was sent a username and password and decided to take advantage of it. Hopefully that goes over well.

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