WorkING for a week

It has been a week since I first started at ING. Thanks to a friend, I now have something to do to pass the next for months. Sure, the pay would be much better if I worked in a restaurant like Dome, but at least I got to see the inside of an office. The Human Capital Office surprised me for being smaller than I expected. I thought the place would have hundreds of workers, seeing as how that department was responsible for hiring new people. I was surprised to find that less than 15 people worked in the office (out of which only 3 were men, and that does not include me). Still they were quite friendly and helpful. My time spent there was called an ‘internship’, whatever that means. I suppose I am supposed to learn something, but al I do is really boring but tedious work and every now and then, my supervisor would point things out to me like, “these are the personal folders of past employees, every company is suppose to…”, blah, blah. For a week, I have been filing old papers belonging to people who have already resigned. Boring nonetheless, but I did get a bit of entertainment reading the complaints of sexual harassment made against one employee. That fellow got fired some weeks after that. Awww…Then there was another case where this woman believed that she was the target of a conspiracy to get her fired. Interesting. Apart from that, I made use of my college built PowerPoint skills to create organization charts, fun at first but a headache eventually. There was a bit of excitement on my first day because of the Plant A Tree campaign. Some big shot from Holland came to initiate this campaign and of course plant a tree. Actually the hole was already dug, so all he did was plunk the tree in and pour some water. Had lunch with an old friend that same day. She was the one who helped me with the job. Went to the Weld Building for the first time too. ING is the official sponsor for the Renault F1 team this year so today there was some activity going on. There was a Simulated Car where one can pretend to be test driving one of them race cars and some competitions too where the prizes would be passes to watch the race. Of course I was too lazy to bother with any of them. Getting to work itself is a chore, the Monorail is so small and it is always crowded. Waiting for it to pull up at the station is a pain in itself as it can sometimes take up to 20 minutes for a train to arrive. Stupid government. Why can’t they make the train bigger, knowing that it is so popular? Another thing, why must they announce the advertisers along with the name of the station. I find that really odd. The station is a short walk from the office and on my very first day (which is the only time in my life that I went out without an umbrella) it had to rain. Well, at least I got my first paycheck today, and that is a good thing.