My new job at oracle!!

Hi all.. Monday is a special day in my life. It’s my first "New employer" facing day. I have to admit that the transition was quite smooth. Especially because I nearly hated my first employer(mind u the not the job..just the employer)..Speaking of this I am reminded of a saying by infosys chief mentor and founder Dr NarayanaMurthy.It said,” Love your job, not your company. Company may change but u always need a job”. Nice right..
As usual it took a full day for filling up forms, which was nearly like writing impositions in school. Only difference was that here I was writing my name and address rather than "I Won't bite my neighbor again"(not that I usually bit my neighbors in class:-)) and that I also had to sign at a few dotted places. I am seriously surprised. If it is gonna be the repeat of the same info why should a person manually fill it up each time. Why cant companies do away with such stupid redundancy. Can’t we enter all details once and all other forms populated with suitable data and we just sign. Lets see if it happens in future..
I was surprised to see that I got a system immediately and surprise surprise a place to go with the system. sounds crazy na..With my prev employer and most big companies ppl used to get resources but not a place to put those resources and settle in. Sometimes ppl used to work out of conference and meeting rooms. Now I got a system and a place in a jiffy. I was really contended. Another good thing is my employee number is around 850.u wont believe it Just 3 digits. So it is gonna be a small division. Exactly what I had hoped for. So I got even happier.
At lunch we were given tokens till this month end. And we were told lunch tokens would be given at our places the first week of every month. Earlier I had to phone everyday for the sodex ho passes, and if they had come, stand in serpentine queue for deceptively long times and after all this had to pay for it too. But now viola I am gonna get free lunch for the rest of my career. (I guess I am crossing the accepted limits of exaggeration for I don even know if I have decided to be here the whole of my career). Anyways I was most contented by this only.
After lunch came to my place. Checked mails and caught up on news online and also with a few friends on chat. Then in the evening went upstairs for seeing what’s there in the closed corner of the terrace. There was a small compact gym with 2 TT Tables and 1 Billiards table.Cool.Especially after having nothing else to do except work(that too without having any work) for the last 6 months. I felt as though I have finally arrived. It may be look like exageration. But really life at work becomes hell when u r not so compatible with ur employer u know. Mind u its life at work. Not work itself.
Played some awful snooker with a guy who himself was at his lowest that day I guess..Both cursed thro our way and after 45 min we were not thro with even one frame. So we decided to call it a day. Not an exciting start to outawork activities..but a start nevertheless.. Was happy. That’s it for today. See all the last three entries have been today. Whenever my team lead arrives to introduce someone I am in this window only.. so I am closing today’s blogging.. shall blog tomorrow..bye