Day 1 of New Job

Today I started my new job. So far it has been very relaxed. Met a bunch of the people and everyone seems to be welcoming me aboard. Literally, almost everyone said “welcome aboard.” Other then that seemed very slow and I have a lot to catch up on with what and where stuff is at in their system. I am dealing with my first VOiP system and it seems very easy. As the gal I am learning from was going through some stuff I did a quick little thing to reset the IP on a computer and she was looking at me like what am I doing. She had told me to reboot to fix the problem that I did with this command.

One thing that has me so gun shy is the ease of lunches and time off. I mentioned I wanted a couple hours off for my daughter’s field day on Wednesday. I wanted to use my hour lunch for that and I was told just put it on my calendar, it is no problem. I am at this point a little in shock. I am home for lunch right now and heading back for the rest of my day.

I sat in a meeting this afternoon and was assigned to a group that is studying a book about business. We had to go over a chapter that covered behaving like your in business for yourself. I think I have been through this book before at a previous company. This was a good thing to me. I also noticed there is TONS of food around the company on counters, such as pretzels, dried fruit, nuts, some candy etc. The coffee is always made and a refrigerator is totally stocked with drinks. I have not figured it all out yet but I think the company provides all this. I also heard of monthly birthday parties and lots of get together for the employees. This new company might actually care for its employees. A new twist that has me still wondering and time will tell as we move forward another day.

I was watching the gal I am taking over some work from as she was helping the lady owner. I offered some advice to what she was working on and the lady owner said wow 1st day and your already a benefit and contributing and was happy I was there. She happened to say this just as the other owner that hired me entered the room. I smiled at him and he seemed happy to hear that.