A Newbie in Town

I have a new neighbour, a newbie in my department. His name is Nicholas. A senior took the newbie on a parade around my dept introducing who these people are.

I don't lie one ok..That is his name

That's his place loh

Then he went to 3 different levels to get 3 things done:-

1. To get his IBM Tag

He will get one just like mine. I looked retarded here !!

2. To get the keys to his workdesk

3. To get himself a laptop for work + register himself to get a personal email address + phone

extension

I have gone thru all these processes also on my first day of work. He is better than me lah as his immediate senior treated him way better. I was out of luck on my first day of work, my immediate manager was on emergency leave whereby another senior manager had to come pick this poor little kitten (me-lah) from the reception after waiting for 2 hours.

Back to the newbie story...

I got a BIG SHOCK after I glanced over to Nicholas's table. He was supplied with new STATIONERIES by the senior.It seems she has requested the dept secretary to give him the necessary supplies.

Y am I SHOCKED ? Cuz I did not get them when I first came. Like I said, my immediate manager was on leave for 2-3days.The senior manager was too busy to pamper me also.

These are what he got :

1. New stapler ( Me : I borrowed from my colleague)

2. New stapler bullets ( Me : depends if my colleague has the supply or not)

3. Highlighters ( Me : used to borrow from my colleague. Now, I brought one from

home)

4. Pen ( Me: also brought from home )

5. Notebook ( Me: I got that at the beginning of the year. Everyone in this dept got

it.)

6. The orange string thingy ( Me: Everyone in my dept also got that last quarter.)

7. Pendrive (Me: Did not get it o my first day. Got that last quarter together with

everyone)

Nobody even told me that I can request for stationeries until my beloved colleague/fren told me that. It seems that she also faced the same fate as mine.

That's all I wanna tok about for now...

*Nicholas, if u ever read this, I am neither mad nor jealous. I just wanted to express how silly I was not knowing that the company actually supplied the newbies with stationeries lah. & also hoh, Y my seniors @ manager did not ask for me la...