I think, I had a first day that is usual for a first day in computer business. Of course, I was 20 mintues too late, because the village of the company was surprisingly bigger than one street and I ended up somewhere in nowhere. Luckily Micha could pick me up. What a start. Next getting a card at the entrance. I am not in the system, so I get a one-day entrance card. Maybe tomorrow I am already registered. Afterwards I met a lot of people, learned a lot of names. At Atos you call each other with the first name (not so usual for distance-loving Germany). And now I have an idea why they hired me. I think I met 50 people, but they had only 10 different names. Maybe they hire people because of their names. Almost everybody seems to be called Wolfgang, Peter, Stefan, Michael, and - of course - Markus. Getting to know a lot of people also means to learn about a lot of different projects. And a lot of technical terms I never heard of before. Until 12 my head was full of technical terms and cryptic combinations of random letters (thought about an IT-version of MFG - German for shortcut for "with kind regards").
At half past 12 we had lunch. German lunch. That means have dinner at noon. "Currywurst mit Pommes". I think, I will try to get back to Swedish times as soon as possible. After lunch I learned how cash flow with credit cards works in Germany and international. I am glad I get this serious introduction. At my former jobs I was only introduced to my desk and left alone afterwards. The remaining time today I read articles about the company's infrastructure and screened rughly my project's manual. But at 5pm I could not get anything anymore in my head. Some time ago I had to be concentrated a whole day long. And I had been awake since 6am, because of my morning shift. The bus on the way back did not make any problems and at 6pm I was at home. I waited for the owner of the flat, who wanted to arrive in the evening, but I fell to sleep when I arrived home and might have overslept the bell.
My flatmates are still not at home. I got a phone call they should arrive this evening. We will see. I do not think I already got mail, but as long as they have the only key for the mailbox, I cannot check.
Tomorrow I will start earlier, because I have no intention to stay that long at work this week. I have only reading stuff to do, anyway. And the fastest bus goes in the morning. And now I even know: the bus from this morning would not have stopped at my busstop. Only every second bus of this number stops where I need to go. Why don't they have different numbers then... I suppose that was not the last miracle of the "real world" I will face this week.
At half past 12 we had lunch. German lunch. That means have dinner at noon. "Currywurst mit Pommes". I think, I will try to get back to Swedish times as soon as possible. After lunch I learned how cash flow with credit cards works in Germany and international. I am glad I get this serious introduction. At my former jobs I was only introduced to my desk and left alone afterwards. The remaining time today I read articles about the company's infrastructure and screened rughly my project's manual. But at 5pm I could not get anything anymore in my head. Some time ago I had to be concentrated a whole day long. And I had been awake since 6am, because of my morning shift. The bus on the way back did not make any problems and at 6pm I was at home. I waited for the owner of the flat, who wanted to arrive in the evening, but I fell to sleep when I arrived home and might have overslept the bell.
My flatmates are still not at home. I got a phone call they should arrive this evening. We will see. I do not think I already got mail, but as long as they have the only key for the mailbox, I cannot check.
Tomorrow I will start earlier, because I have no intention to stay that long at work this week. I have only reading stuff to do, anyway. And the fastest bus goes in the morning. And now I even know: the bus from this morning would not have stopped at my busstop. Only every second bus of this number stops where I need to go. Why don't they have different numbers then... I suppose that was not the last miracle of the "real world" I will face this week.
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