death by monotony

ok i need a place to vent. shirtshortslippers is back in business.
it has been 2 days into my temp job and i think i'm one double-click away from going insane. i have alot to say. so the verbal diarrhoea will come in cute little angry packages. and to top it all off i'll even label the packets of shit for you. so u can choose the shit u want to read. how thoughtful.

Backfuckingground
after my lovely EID(engineering project), that consumed half of my school vacation. oh ya. my group didnt fucking win anything in EID. which was rather depressing, cos i was like the fucking leader of the group. haha. so i mopped around the house for 2 weeks, and masturbated 4 times a day to make myself feel better... just kidding la. hahhaha....
well, obviously, i took a week break to jsut slack after eid and then i started looking for vacation jobs week after.
I got news of this autocad job half way thru my job search week and the interview was set for this monday. so taht left me with less than a week to actually learn how to use the program.
I was quietly confident of my abilites to get thru the interview cos i'm such a fuckign genius la. haha.. plus, i learnt another engineering drafting program tt shares sorta a similar interface during eid. so ya, i was ok with sitting for the test on the interview day. The test on monday was surprisingly straight forward and i got the job the same day and was due to start on Tuesday. i remember being elated. cos my trip to the library to borrow an autocad book paid off. haha.

My Comfuckingpany
My company X (not telling u the name obviously), has its fingers in alot of major electronics and its forte seems to be power supplys. X has offices all around the globe and so far, from the stuff that i have done, they have quite a good list of clients for their local product and services...

My Fucking Job
-other than to desperately try and converse in my mother tongue(i'll get to that)- is that of a drafter in the company design dept. so ya, i use this engineering software, Autocad, to draw/edit stuff for them, mainly electrical circuits... my job invovles no creativity whatsoever. my colleagues jsut tell or give me what they want and i'll jsut draw or edit it to their liking. its 2 days into the job and so far, only thing that they have left to my creativity is drawing a revolving door handle for some circuit box - for which i am eternally grateful for.

The fucking culture
from what i have seen in the last 2 days. it is absoluetly horendous. the moment i reported for work, they jsut started giving me work to do. NO introduction, NO orientation, NO welcome, NOTHING. it was jsut, 'hi, this is ur desk, the monitor will be on its way." and its lets start work followed by a 20 min lunch, and then back to work again. till today i have no idea what the company structure is like, who the hell are the bosses, i only know my sort-of mentor and the person overlooking the design dept. thats all. plus when i smile at other collegaues from other depts, THEY DOTN SMILE BACK! WHAT THE FUCK. there is absolutely no interaction intra-deparments and TODAY, i saw a colleague from another dept trying to communicate with the person sitting opposite her. she started by saying,"excuse me excuse me....." the kind of salutation usually reserved for strangers and for the macdonalds cashier frantically trying to get ur attention when u walk away with your happy meal in tray, leaving your coke at the counter.... honestly i was appalled. how is it possible to work in the office when u cant even address ur colleague by name.

The fucking HR manger
shes really one bag of shit. she's really something. as i found out today, newly inducted perm staff DO get orientation by the HR manager. so she was brining this perm staff round the whole office saying the typical, "ok this, is tina from finance." then she moves on. so imagine my surprise when she walked introed the person infront of me, skipped any introduction with me, and introed my colleague sitting behind me. I WAS LIKE, O H M Y G O D. PEOPLE PLAYING MONOPOLY SKIP THEIR TURNS, PEOPLE PLAYING UNO GET TO SKIP TOO. BUT YOU DONT FUCKING SKIP ME IN A FUCKING ORIENTATION. WHAT!?!?! A 1 MONTH TEMP NOT WORTH YOUR BREATH YOU GROSS ARROGANT CONDESCENDING BITCH. ARGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHHH!!!! I'M THE ONLY TEMP OUT OF THE SIX YOU INTERVIEWED THAT PASSED YOUR FUCKING TEST!!! WHAT IS FUCKING WRONG WITH YOU!!! ARE TEMPS FUCKING INVISIBLE OR IS MY INVISIBILITY ACTING UP AGAIN? FUCKING MORON! anyway i wasnt really angry then, cos i was really trying my best to cope with drafting and editing weird circuits for like the second time in my life. but the deep i think into this, the more infuriated i become. SERIOUSLY, THAT SLIMY PIECE OF EXEC SHIT.

The Environment
FUCKING HR MANAGER! ROARRR! ok my anger spilled over on to the environment. how infuriating.... anyway, theres about 5/6 pple working on various projects but doing the same job as me. all sitting in the same area as me. their all matured ladies who have a preference for speaking mandarin. oh and calling them autocad gods, w ould be the biggest understatement. I jsut found out today, that 2 of them have been doing the same thing for over 10 years. so what i proudly accomplish in half an hour, they finish in 5 mins, with time to go pantry for coffee. un fucking believable. but beware aunties... i mean matured ladies... i will soon surpass your skills... MUAHAHAHAHAHAH...
other than that, each department keeps to themselves and at times all u hear is teh double clicking of the little mice and the whirling sound coming from all the one milleion CPUs across the office. and when there is communication, its always straight office talk. no gossip, no jokes, rarely laughter.. JOYLESS and DREARY...

The Pay
think kidnapped sweatshop kid worker, only with aircon.



well, in a nut shell, the job lets me learn and practise autocad, plus its good cv material and maybe it'll let me build some useful contacts, which is quite good for my fledging engineering career (that is if i intend to pursue it) but otherwise everything else about it is pretty dreadful. i got about 5 weeks more. i sure hope things become better, like colleagues become more friendly and open up and teh HR manager gets replaced. if not, give me strength.... and guys, if you're ever up for lunch around mcpherson area from 12-2, save me from death by monotony pleaseeeeee.