LOL and I thought waiting around, not jumping into answers in ten seconds in the training was like pulling teeth. By that I mean that there are about three of us who volunteer information like that *snaps fingers* when asked, and the rest kind of lay back and let the questions slide. When I feel like being quiet, which is often, because I don't want to appear the dominant one in a classroom environment, it can sometimes take ten seconds for any of the seven others to pipe up.
Maybe it's an adult version of childhood anxiety disorder LOL - was on TV last night, when kids talk at home but not at school - selective autism some dickhead was calling it, geez in the old days (pre 90s LOL) it was just called shyness?
Anyways, back to work - we had about an hour of training all up yesterday, on hierachies in some system or other as well as some other stuff, but then it was like they didn't know what to do with us, so we were scattered around the building sitting next to people to observe their work. Not even in a trainer trainee relationship, just to keep us occupied and out of trouble for the day I think. So yeah, that was most of the day and all of us (when we talked, or should I say conferenced at lunch) were bored out of our trees, as I guess were the people we sat with. By the end of it I only had a quarter brain attention on what I was supposed to be doing, and listening out more for what was around me. Hearing the hum of a normal working office, has been too long :)
LOL I seemed to get the person that was more interested in working than gossiping when I sat with her, and two of her pod buddies were great gossipers, dammit - quite nice lookers as well. We found out where we were going to be for next week, and had a chat to the trainees that are becoming team members moving out of that area. One girl was going to Novo (which is our project) and seemed nice (well everyone does to me first impressions) but eh, just more names for her to get mixed up, especially if we make it and don't see her for ten weeks.
Oh, and somehow I became alpha person of the group, or maybe more to the point the one that tries to organise things and gets trampled over LOL. Because we left the training room in such a rush, no one looked like picking up our timesheet, so muggins here decided to do it - was alright and stuff, until towards the end of the day, when five of my fellow intake decided to check their timesheet at once, in the pod of the REAL workers, I was like thinking please be considerate, and if I had thought quickly enough would have taken the sheet over to an emptier part of the floor (which had just been vacated for us).
And then had trouble faxing through the timesheet at work, cos lol I think HAL out of 2001 was controlling the fax machine (which was also a printer and coffee maker and controller of the other scientists in statis LOL) and I tried to fax three times and it wouldn't go through - of course the first two times I faxed the wrong number LOL. And then I had Lisa behind me sending a couple of faxes for her 'buddy' herself and saying I am so over today and this week and all. And Rachel had said at lunchtime make sure you fax it from work blah blah, when I have a perfectly good fax that I have a fair idea of operating from home bleah. So yeah, in the end gave up on the work fax, gave up on work for the week - Lisa's thinking was rubbing off on me, and headed home. Bumped into Lexi and Wayne on the train platform and they were pretty scathing about the whole structure of today, and said that Rachel had been in a strop - five of us were on level two, five on level seven, Lexi, Wayne and Rachel were on seven LOL.
Came home, faxed the things off as soon as I got in the door, slumped into the chair for about half an hour, talked to Mum and Dad, and then watched the news, Big Brother and then netted a bit. Bumped into one of my best friends from Saskatoon of all places, for the third time this week - before that had been a HUGE drought of contact. Did I mention that I was in Saskatoon (again, of all places) when the latest Iraqi war broke out? Only place more surreal for that to happen in March last year was when we were in Sault Ste Marie LOL. Biggest shopping mall in northern Ontario indeed...
And then bumped into a new potential friend from Maryland. I don't make all that many new friends online anymore, too close to the bad old days of needing so much attention assurance whatever, but occassionally the last few months there have been exceptions. Maryland being one of them - the clincher for us to start talking was that she has the Robotech DVD collection - some crappy 80s cartoon that I used to watch as religiously as some people watched Melrose or Dallas LOL. Silly Paul... and the convo went from there :)
Also my friend Miss (or Mrs as my best friend reminds me) Texas wandered on for a couple minutes, but she was just starting her work day, and things are going pear shaped at her work, she said she would probably have to let a couple of people go today, and she's not really keen on that. Hope things work out for her, and the business at least stays afloat (with her in it). Fingers crossed.
So yes, that was my day yesterday, any questions LOL
Paul
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