A Week Later....

A week had passed since starting on my new job and everyone's been asking me hows it going.... even my bosses. What do you expect me to say? That it's pretty screwed up and all? No that it's the case, but when you ask such a question, surely you're expecting a positive answer, right? No?

Anyway, things are going smoothly and you need not worry about me being unable to cope. Of course, there are teething issues such as a delay in getting my accounts fully ready, delay in giving me my due stationary and such. It's quite unlike in XXX where all these are ready from Day 1 when you started work. In YYY, my accounts weren't ready until noon that day, my stationary set was given to me after I emailed the Admin lady if I should buy my own stationary and claimed if they do not issue.... Even my namecards were ordered only after I asked that lady too.

Anyway, these little issues aside, I've bigger issues on hand. Early in the morning of Day 2, the newly promoted COO passed me a document on YYY's Business Continuity Plans. By the end of Day 3, I was "invited" to sit in a Webex meeting scheduled for 15 Nov. And the best part of the entire week was... my partner's away for the next 2weeks for his annual leave to study for exams. Imagine this; barely 5days into the job and you're being thrown into the deep end!!

I seriously, sincerely and really am praying, hoping that nothing serious crops up...