Of Office Politics, Loads of Reading, Boredom and Youths to the Fore!

ZOMGosh...

It's only my fourth day at my new place and I was being cautioned for office politics already. Humans. Can't escape these sort of things. Every new person I meet have something to say about the team I am working in. Notorious it seems. Tsk tsk tsk.

And of course as a noob you are not required to do much actual work but encouraged to do a lot of SOP and Manual and Kit reading. Eee. There are PLENTY to read about, from products to correspondence, from documents to files and even presentation slides on hardcopy! Eee. Not to mention the administrative procedures by the HR department as well as a number of induction courses and even an assessment on Microsoft applications that I have to attend to. I still have to apply for benefits such as a free Car Pass (RM 28.50 a day is NOT funny!) and an email. So many processes to follow up. Eee.

My job? Basically what I will be doing is, to be a middle-man (part of in this case), between my company (consisting the inter-related departments and external links) and other higher education providers from countries in Asia, in providing my company's government approved programmes. These programmes are literally "sold" to these "franchisees" as part of their on going programme. In a way, you can say that my company is their affiliated provider of education. So, the "international" students may opt to transfer to Malaysia to complete their studies and graduate here, or complete their studies in their home countries and be awarded certificates by my company, which is actually recognised by their country.

ZOMGosh...I know it sounds complicated. Sorry. I shall not explain any further. It's scary.

*shake head*

Okay whatever it is - I'm bored. And anxious! Why? Currently, I have 2 seniors in this team. BOTH seniors will be leaving - one resigned and is on leave until after the Raya holidays, while the second, who had been very kind to give me initial orientation, will be transferring to another department. Sigh. The former by the way, is the one I am suppose to take over from. He's work requires more administrative and tedious processes but I don't mind - I was actually given option by my boss. Ho Ho Ho! (Which means I don't have to do so much liaison as my other senior.)

Anyway, what's another thing about working in an education line? Youths! Lots of them. I'm not as young as they are anymore but to be around them, or just watching them (my job spec does not require much meeting with students) do their college thing or mingle around the college/student culture just makes me feel less "old". I'm still very young at heart - har har!

I would like to add that today, I helped another team (actual administrative/ academic team) to organise a student tutorials registration session. It's interesting because unlike my old college and uni days, this "event" requires all the students to register their preferred time and day of scheduled tutorials, ALL subjects at once. I was like, "Huh?".

Either way, it was interesting at the same time crazy. You got like about 200 students crowded in a medium sized hall, queuing up to first register their attendance and then make their way to another queue to register for the subject they want to take for the semester and put their names in. Unfortunately, I HAD to be the lucky one to sit at the table which has the most students participating. Thank goodness I had some experience in "entertaining" such crowds (blur and lost included) before so this was quite easy.

And yes Piggywiggy if you're reading this, there was a "bus-load of 'em" - CATEGORISED according to "type", "original make" and "grade"! *wink*

Emm...said too much. Wishing everyone a grrreat weekend. And for those celebrating Raya - Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf Zahir dan Batin!