You noe wat is funny? Working as a vacation trainee..
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I started working for Ernst & Young as a vacation trainee just 4 days ago. On the first day, it was tiring..all the admin stuff, followed by IT training as each of us gets our own laptop for the time being. After lunch there was training in audit for all vacation trainees and again that took up the whole day till it was time to go home..Not bad for a first day eh..but wait..
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Day 2 has arrived, and as we have not been assigned to any manager just yet we were required to go wait at reception for our admin officers to arrive. I came at 8.30 and guess wat time the admin officer came....9.30am! So most of us just sat at the reception for a whole hour talking bullshit and crapping away. After doing a few simple stuff I was brought to the clients office. I doing auditting for this listed company known as the Faber Group. Considering its size the manager did tell me its probably going to be the ONLY project that I would be working on. I arrived there about 11am and there started the real auditting work..work.work.work..until way pass my lunch time. Had a short lunch and went back to work...until overtime about an hour..So there it is, 2nd day..more tiring than the 1st day...I can practically guess whats in store of working in one of the "Big Four".
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Day 3, I was told there was gonna be a meeting to plan for auditting the company. I expected it to be about half a day and we would proceed to the client's office. The allocated expected time for the meeting was well short of the actual meeting time. The freaking meeting was 9 hours long!! Who goes for a meeting for 9 hours. And I was one of those that was selected to do minutes for a meeting. Its called minutes for a reason, so that we can record the details of the minutes that were discussed during a meeting. But how can one keep a concentrated mind on writing everything that has been discussed per minute when the meeting is 9 hours!!! Damn, yesterday was really tiring. Another hour and I would actually get OT pay but then they fell short so I cant claim OT...
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Day 4. By now, you can see the trend of increasing work to be done everyday. So I slept early, got the rest ready for day 4!! Early in the morning, my senior associate told me that there has been a change of plans and I was to go to office instead of going to the clients place direct. When I arrived, she told me she was on emergency leave. Then I could'nt see neither the assistant manager of the manager in charge of this project. When they finally arrived, they had nothing in store for me. I ran a few simple checks and errands and wasted my time away on web messenger and facebook...After lunch, I went to consult ppl in the IT department for a small problem. Its 3.15 now, almost 2 hours since lunch, and I haven't gotten any work yet...lol..talk about slowing down!! Its boring me to death as I'm blogging away from office!!!...haih..nothing to do..
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ooh wait..I see my assistant manager getting up!!.................
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She walks towards my manager and begins discussing...nope, no work for me yet..perhaps I should take a nap in front of the Partner's room..hehe..
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not hungry just bored...ciaoz
