Yarrkarping!

Hi, I’m the new girl!

// June 29th, 2009 // Karp-thoughts, Life

Yep, that was me today, and it was a very nice experience! It’s very har to describe, but it was such a nice new-girl experience compared to the last one I had. Maybe I was more confident, but I think it was more because everyone immediately felt very friendly and welcoming at HP, something that I didn’t necessarily feel at IBM. At least not from everyone.

What i did today was mostly to observe other people work and to sign papers and fill out a few forms. I got aquainted with the other people on the team and I think we’ll get along very well. I think I might even have arranged car-pooling and stuff. This week I’ll ride home to Greenock with one of the Italian girls, who was very nice. It turned out her husband worked at the Italian CF team at IBM, same role I’d had, but in a different language, obviously. It actually turned out that quite a few of the people on my new team has worked for IBM at one point or another, but found it lead nowhere, or that the pay was too low. In fact, very similar reasons to the ones I had for leaving. No wonder that place has an incredibly high staff turnover each year. And it’s nice to know it’s not just me. Very nice.

So yes, I think I’ll like it at my new workplace, and from what I’ve seen of the work I’ll be doing, I think I’ll like that too. Over the next three weeks I’ll get proper training and all that, and then I’ll be set off on my own. A bit scary, but with three weeks of training behind me, I’m sure it’ll feel a lot safer. ^^

So that was me today. I’ve spent quite a bit of the evening pouring my thoughts out to mum and then to Kev. He’ll be sick of me before we move in together :P And speaking of moving, I’ve also been trying to set up broadband and phone at the new flat, which worked fine until I was going to deal with BT. Same deal as with O2 a few months back. They wanted me to pay a deposit to set my account up. Probably because they don’t have any records of me from before October last year. It’s still bullshit though, so we’re going to set upp the BT account in Kev’s name to avoid all that.

And now I’m completely exhausted. New things and lots of impressions and learing has a tendency to do that to me. But I suppose I don’t mind that much. I do feel like I’ve accomplished something and that makes all the difference.