Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Section 2

Now its already 5 weeks into my internship and i have practically met everybody in Finance and also in shopfloor. I'm getting quite a name for myself now, and people refers me as the 5000M (metre) man for my heroic effort in completing the event in the company's sports day. How i wish there is a USD in front as in "....the US$5000M boy ah....u know ah...."

The people here is super nice and friendly. I think there is an entry requirement that all employees should also be a qualified Colgate, Darlie model. Everybody I see wears a smile. And some guys are down right cool. Once I was following a colleague of mine to do some inventory check when i was brought forward to meet this particular employee. First question he asked was why am I here. When i tried to explain myself he became critical and accuses me of coming in for the money. I tried to remain holistic but then he chopped my sentence when i was halfway muttering god-knows-what and asked me to show my hand. He then went on to read my palm and made me feel naked. Then, when we continued our main topic he asked for 5 minutes and turned on his surround system in his office in the factory. Out came Rolling Stone's 'Satisfaction'. How cool was that? Sub-Zero.

I find the place a bit freaky though. My finance manager was an engineer before realising that finance was his thing. A colleague under a finance learning program had engineering as his first, business & commerce as his second and then finally doing finance now. Another young fellow currently also in the program plays in Damansara league and had twins. Wife still studies.

There were also lots of learning opportunities for me. As in the first day i have to read up all the company's product and answer questions like how well managed finance can improve Six Sigma those sort of next to impossible questions. There is also a guy name Dai who invited me to his Japanese class and now i know that Japanese is a super cool language. Now at least i know 'Itchy' means one. I'm also encouraged to speak Japanese as much as possible so you'll find me saying I want one pen as 'I want "Itchy" pen' or simply said, “我要一支笔”.