Just stepped into the third week of my
new job. For the last two weeks, I did not have much work to do as I was (in fact I'm) yet doing knowledge transfers (people transfer to me, of course), trying to get familiar with the project I'll be in as well as this company. This is the ever first job that make me feel that I'm hired for the company, because I always felt that I was hired for "a project" or "some tasks" in my past jobs. This is also the first time I experienced new employee orientation session, which was on the first and second day. It has been funny, at least in the morning on the first day, around eight new strange faces sitting in the meeting room and waiting to be reallocated to a perm or temp office (Yes people call it "office" though it may just a desk with cubicle). We're introducing ourselves with lots of funny words and jokes, talking about traffic jam (I'm working at Kelana Jaya), trying to figure out the best path to get here, asking around each other project involvements and so on. And the interesting thing is, my collegemate was there. She is working as a SAP trainee although she has roughly the same working experience as me just because she just got
SAP certified. But you know what, she would probably get at least double of my pay once she got promoted from trainee to consultant.
Without long waiting, just right after the lunch break of second day, I was assigned to a perm seat with a 2.7kg
DELL laptop. As you can guess, I didn't start work immediately. I started doing some project-related stuffs in the second day of my second week.
In my past years doing software development projects, I've got the chance to experience on business domains such as Oil and Gas, Port Cargo, Manufacturing and Automation, Mobile SMS, Legal Aid Management and this round, Online Learning Management. For the sake of applying standards, the new comers and I attended the
CMMI training last week, which separated into tree main sessions, two and a half hours each. Categories: Process management, project management and development/support respectively.
OK, I think it's time to do some works, I'm going to get some software installers from a FTP server in Bangalore so that I can get them installed. I got the FTP server IP, username and password, and I tried establishing connection. Fail. According to the network guy, I'm required to fill in a "change management" form in order to request getting the port 21 opened and this process will take probably couple of weeks. Don't think that I will be idle for that long, as experienced software developers definitely have the workaround. I just requested to have my VPN account created and it only takes about couple of days!
