Don't Work, Be Happy
I’m at work now, and secretly blogging even though I’m not allowed to but I have nothing to do anyway. Thanks, of course, go to Jess for telling me to write my post out on Microsoft Word first and then, when no one is around, quickly copy and paste into Blogger! You can see she’s very experienced at the art of subterfuge at work, heh.
To cut a long story short, I joined this company only on Monday, thus I’m still a doobie noobie, thus I have not been given any work at all. To compound this, my supervisor’s been on MC, and she’s been horribly busy the rest of the time, so much so that I’ve been briefed only once this week.
Basically I’m earning (quite a bit of) money by sitting on my ass day after day.
It doesn’t sound so bad, but trust me, when you have absolutely NOTHING to do for 9 entire hours a day, it’s a torture. Kids, I’m telling you now, boredom kills. Stay away from it!
This is how my work days so far have gone:
Monday: Looked through every single document on the shared server and read all of the previous person’s emails – over 1,100 in all – to get a feel of the company’s plans and my own job scope. Spent the rest of the day staring at the computer and stoning.
Tuesday: Spent the whole day staring at the computer and stoning.
Wednesday: Spent the whole day staring at the computer and stoning. Took 5 minutes to secretly surf the Net and ascertain that MSN, Web Online Messenger, Friendster, are all firewalled. Supervisor gives me a 2-hour briefing.
Thursday: Spent the whole day staring at the computer and stoning. Life is looking bleak.
Today: Up till now, still staring at the computer and stoning.
And in case you’re wondering, yes, I have taken the initiative to ask for work, and I ask every day, at least 4 times a day, but no one has any work to give me and I can’t do anything ‘cause I’m not fully trained to take over our corporate accounts yet.
So, TGIF to the max, and the good thing about here today is that we have casual Fridays. And I’m dressed as sloppily as is humanly possible – sneakers, jeans, a baggy Italy t-shirt, hair all scraped back, glasses. I sure look helluva attractive.
To cut a long story short, I joined this company only on Monday, thus I’m still a doobie noobie, thus I have not been given any work at all. To compound this, my supervisor’s been on MC, and she’s been horribly busy the rest of the time, so much so that I’ve been briefed only once this week.
Basically I’m earning (quite a bit of) money by sitting on my ass day after day.
It doesn’t sound so bad, but trust me, when you have absolutely NOTHING to do for 9 entire hours a day, it’s a torture. Kids, I’m telling you now, boredom kills. Stay away from it!
This is how my work days so far have gone:
Monday: Looked through every single document on the shared server and read all of the previous person’s emails – over 1,100 in all – to get a feel of the company’s plans and my own job scope. Spent the rest of the day staring at the computer and stoning.
Tuesday: Spent the whole day staring at the computer and stoning.
Wednesday: Spent the whole day staring at the computer and stoning. Took 5 minutes to secretly surf the Net and ascertain that MSN, Web Online Messenger, Friendster, are all firewalled. Supervisor gives me a 2-hour briefing.
Thursday: Spent the whole day staring at the computer and stoning. Life is looking bleak.
Today: Up till now, still staring at the computer and stoning.
And in case you’re wondering, yes, I have taken the initiative to ask for work, and I ask every day, at least 4 times a day, but no one has any work to give me and I can’t do anything ‘cause I’m not fully trained to take over our corporate accounts yet.
So, TGIF to the max, and the good thing about here today is that we have casual Fridays. And I’m dressed as sloppily as is humanly possible – sneakers, jeans, a baggy Italy t-shirt, hair all scraped back, glasses. I sure look helluva attractive.
posted by Sheena @ 11:44 AM
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