My First Day at Work!

Hello!!

So, I'm at the metro station right now as I type this on my cell phone while waiting on my train.
I just completed my first day of work, and... it was fabulous!!!! LoL. My 1st day fell on the day of the company holiday party, which was held at Dave and Busters. It was great. But let me rewind to the beginning of the day.

So I had a good start this morning beginning with a couple of early morning women's prayer lines that I called into, one impromptu, one more familiar. I communed with my sisters in Christ and they prayed for me. I continued getting ready and doing my hair, which almost made me late because I didn't exactly know what to do with it, I know, I know, bad planning. My sister helped me put it in a style, which I appreciated though it elongated my preparation time. I ended up taking it out and just redoing it on my way out.
As I rushed to the train station, I decided to stop by CVS to pick up a pack of scünci hair bands and use that too fix myself up on my way to work. Fast forward 35 minutes and I made it to work with 4 minutes to spare. Score ;). Thank you Lord.

Initially, I was still feeling not all the way satisfied with my look, but I fixed it later on in the day :). The day went rather well, despite how I thought I would be nervous, and the initial response to my presence by my team members- *lack luster* lol. My manager (who is funny, energetic, and awesome!!) introduced me to the rest of my team, spoke to me about on what my first few weeks would look like, showed me my desk (with awesome leather chair) :D, and let me know I had business cards already made, a company email address, and other already setup accounts. I got started by logging into my email account, setting up passwords for the other accounts, and setting up my voice mail. I can't wait 'til I get my business cards!

Later, as the new person, I got to pick where we would all go to lunch to eat, though ppl were allowed to opt out according to preference. The entire management team was present, including the CEO, my manager/director, and the department founders, though the CFO wasn't in today. I chose Thai :D! There are a bunch of places surrounding the office to eat, and the Thai place was right across the street. As a welcome for me to the company, the CEO paid for lunch, for everyone, for which I'm thankful. That was pretty awesome!
Later on there was a briefing for a business event coming up. My director, one of the department founders, and another girl (not on my team) was present, and I was invited to come (along with another guy that was still fairly new). LOTS of information, but I've got it ;).

And THEN at the very end of the day we went to Dave & Buster for the company holiday party. Fantastic!! It was all paid for by company, there was a fancy yet laid back banquet dinner set up and then, and on top of that, we all got D&B game cards with $80 worth of tokens on them to play whatever we wanted for the rest of the night. I enjoyed that. Me and some of the other girls played a few racing games and had soo much fun, for which I'm glad, laughs included. So, it suffices to say, my day was a blast. Let's review: 1st day: My own desk/semi-cubicle, leather chair and nice computer included, free lunch of my choice with the whole management team, meeting/mingling with majority of the whole company team, a company all expenses paid holiday party including dinner/dessert and pre-filled game cards...yeah, this was a GREAT first day ;D. Bye for now though! I have an assignment to get started on and some research to work on as well. I'm home now (have been for a while). 2morrow is my 2nd day, and I want to it to be even better than today in it's special way!!


Ciao Ciao!!



P.S. If you missed the story on how I got this job, read my post, "Cliff Hangers: The Answers".



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