Getting to grips - sort of
December 9th 2007 07:36
I spent a couple of hours at my new workplace last Wednesday. It was a kind of familiarisation time, and we also looked at the employment contract, a lengthy document full of what my employed should do and what I should do and who shouldn’t do what and when we should or shouldn’t do it – whatever it is.
My boss to be, as it were, also gave me a bit of a run-down on what I’ll be doing. To an extent. I’m not sure that I’ve completely grasped the details yet, or that my boss is even entirely sure of all the details yet, but at least it doesn’t sound boring. And a number of the others from the team (who are scattered around NZ) will be in Dunedin next week, so I’ll have a chance to meet them as well. Not sure that much work will get done in this first week.
I always go into a new job with the peculiar notion that I should somehow know in advance everything I’ve got to do. It’s just one of those things about me. Perhaps I don’t like to seem unsure of things. Trying to accept that this is a quirk of my personality isn’t easy, but at least I’m now aware of it, which is a start.
With this new job, it looks as though I’m going to have to do some short courses in areas of computing I’m not at present familiar with: the production of power points, for instance; producing web pages using a programme I haven’t used before and so on. I can see me spending a good deal of time doing computing courses and not being in the office!
My boss to be, as it were, also gave me a bit of a run-down on what I’ll be doing. To an extent. I’m not sure that I’ve completely grasped the details yet, or that my boss is even entirely sure of all the details yet, but at least it doesn’t sound boring. And a number of the others from the team (who are scattered around NZ) will be in Dunedin next week, so I’ll have a chance to meet them as well. Not sure that much work will get done in this first week.
I always go into a new job with the peculiar notion that I should somehow know in advance everything I’ve got to do. It’s just one of those things about me. Perhaps I don’t like to seem unsure of things. Trying to accept that this is a quirk of my personality isn’t easy, but at least I’m now aware of it, which is a start.
With this new job, it looks as though I’m going to have to do some short courses in areas of computing I’m not at present familiar with: the production of power points, for instance; producing web pages using a programme I haven’t used before and so on. I can see me spending a good deal of time doing computing courses and not being in the office!
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