Sunday, July 13, 2008

My new colleague...

My new colleague has been with us for almost a month now.

She is indeed an interesting person...

On the day that she was supposed to come in, she called in to say that she's seriously sick. The doc actually gave her 10days worth of anti-biotics. What an impression for all of us...

When she finally came in, she looked promising. She was always keen to learn, asking lots of questions to ensure that she got the procedures right, went online to search for guides so that she could learn how to use Oracle on her own much faster, copied files from her computer wanting to bring them home to study it (but stopped by my boss of course as MANY things here are confidential) and she stayed back on her 1st few days though there was not much to do and CSS who was supposed to teach her was on leave cos of personal reasons...

And then as the days went by, her uniqueness came forth rather LOUDLY.
- she talks in a rather loud aunt-ish tone (kinda interesting really)
- she laughs in a rather loud manner as well (i guess this goes hand-in-hand with the above)
- she eats under the SAME tree everyday (hee)

Actually that's not too bad but some other things are just more jarring...
- she's really quite brave... (i would never dare to talk to LC in the manner she does, asking her to hurry up and leave her own work behind to help her with stuff... LC is hers and my direct boss lo...)
- she nearly quarrelled with my boss the other day... (apparently she said the initials of a vulgar dialect word which I've no idea what is it)

I guess some times there's just a thin line between truthful and direct vs being politically correct while tactfully giving your opinion.

Something to learn for me also. But perhaps hers is like an exemplified version of the negative consequences.

But at the end of the day, she's really a nice person. Cos as I was about to leave on Friday, she asked if I was feeling ok as she has noticed that I had been coughing. So she gave me advice on what I should do so that I can avoid falling sick.

I hope she doesn't leave cos of that near quarrel. ELSE seems like my "covering" workload is here to stay...

*CHOI* =)

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