The Importance of Being Idle

Another Day, Another Dollar

Actually it won't be pay day until Friday (at least, that's what we've been told), but it's been another largely uneventful day at work. We're starting to have so many pension products that they're all starting to blur together. That said, in the comparatively limited part of the industry that we work in they ARE all the same.
Sam did more of his "most annoying human being on the planet" routine (for instance, he insisted that Puerta Rico is one of the fifty states of the USA, despite EVERYONE telling him otherwise), and he still seems to be stuck somewhere around day 3 in terms of his actual pension knowledge (and yet claims to have worked in the financial industry before). Thank god I've yet to be stuck with him on my team for anything.
We had a pretty good day yesterday too; Ronnie was tired from working 13 days in a row, so she had a good long lie in, while I played lots of Soul Calibur II (I know, but it's still good!). Then in the afternoon we popped out to a garden centre near Spalding and had a nice look around, followed by a relaxed evening in. Sadly Archie decided to be a royal pain in the ass during the night; he started about 5.20am, and didn't stop till I finally got up to feed him at 7.15am! I just hope tonight he lets me sleep, 'cos I can't take another night like that. Still, at least he didn't break anything last night...
One day I'll have to actually explain what it is I do at work, but as we're still in training I'm not exactly sure myself. I wonder if they'll actually teach us how to work the Rockwell (it's the phone thing, kinda like a switchboard and time clock all rolled into one, I think), or if we'll just have to guess that part? It's not product or system knowledge that's really worrying me, never was, it's the little things like "how do the phones work?" or "what's the form of the conversation?" that are troubling me. Ah well, we've still got four days left, I'm sure it'll all become clear in time...

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:13 PM