How Was The First Day Of Your Job?

For me I kept kicking myself and asking why I ever committed to such a crappy job. I lasted a few months in the company (global co-op: name with-held) and quit! Chikena!

Do holiday jobs back in school apply? 

How about NYSC?

Your first very job of course

LOL   
Thats what keep most ppl motivated

At a time the sit got too hot for me
feel like going home and remain unemployed all day long. . .
Shits witheld. . .

boring, kept on taking silly pictures and making video recordings of myself, also principally asking rhetorical questions like "what am i doing here"?

I grabbed the job offer because the pay was great. On my first day at work, I was dressed in my best suit. On getting to work, I figure out that no one seem to care about my dressing, they were all looking very casual. I was a bit over-dressed.
My to-be colleagues greeted me as if they were thinking in their head "what's this sh*t doing here" but I was thinking in my own head "you people have just started". I was taken around the company to be introduce to everyone, my legs shaking under me.
Then I was given some massive documents to read, didn't understand a single word, I started asking myself, "How did I get myself into this?".
But you know as Nigerians, we can withstand pressure far more than a typical oyinbo person, so I hung in there. Gradually my colleagues started "liking" me and started showing me how the system works and now I can bet I've got the best job I've ever held.

My first Job was at Chuck E Cheeses. I had to stand up for hours and dance with Lil kids. I made pizzas and cotton candies.I served food and cleaned tables.***It was fun**!!

First day, First Job
It was January 4, 2007. Fresh from the uni, no experience, nothing. No idea about how workplace is. Neatly dressed and in suit. The company was Vetiva Capital Mgt Ltd.
I resumed with one other new recruit(finished from Unilag, and I Ife). We were taken round the company and introduced to all staff. Our systems had not been set up and the lady we were to take over from was not around(travelled to Abuja) to take us through what the job was about. So we were seated in the meeting room. we were just gisting, touching topics like ICAN, school, masters, jobs, the company etc. Few hours later, the Deputy Head of the dept we were posted to came to meet us in the room and gave us a run-down of the activities of the company, and our unit(Corporate Finance) in particular. When the HOD came back from, I think a meeting outside the office, she also came to see us in the meeting room and greeted us. During lunchtime, the HR lady came to us and showed us the canteen. We had our lunch, free. We resumed at the meeting room and continued with our gisting. When it was 5pm, we asked for permission to go since we were not doing anything and our boss released us. I eventually became so close with the lady I resumed with, that thruoghout my stay in the company, we were always together,our seats just beside each other, same unit, same job description, going for lunch together, closing together, despite the fact that she's a born again Christian and me I be Mallam  . We were later jokingly referred to as husband & wife in the company. She had an offer from another company and wanted to leave after first month(not happy with closing late) but she said she did not resign because she didn't want to leave me(we were that close). We left at the same time and she's now with PwC and me in an Oil & Gas company. We still communicate till today.


First day,current Job
First day? In full suit. Went straight to the HR lady that coordinated my recruitment process. Resumed with two other guys, both coming from Celtel. Like first job,we were put in  a meeting room, and we were gisting. HR and compliance officers kept coming and giving us all sorts of forms to fill. We were given handbooks on company's code of ethics etc. We were called one by one and set up in the company's system. Later, we were taken to Safety and Health department where we were lectured on safety tips. Finally we were taken to our departments. One of them happened to be in the same dept with me, and we were  taken round the dept for introduction. I had a brief chat with my boss on the job and I was shown my seat and temporary system(another system later procured for me). Since I didn't have anything to do that day, I was just browsing and that was the beginning of what later turned out to be a chronic addiction to NL in the first few weeks of my resuming the job. I was discharged by my boss around 3pm.

pissed off the MDs close friend and got a warning from the HR GM.

are u 4 real ???first day

 On my first day in securities dept. and verification unit of a stock broking firm, i was sent to the archive to search for a document relating to share sale involving millions made in 1989. i was there althrough the  fisrt two weeks, searching for this document with my nice tm shirt that cost me much and my byc singlet totally removed. i nearlly removed my boxers in the process. but  i delivered at last and later regreated why i delivered cos till date i am responsible for finding any missing document and i always delivered. , building the nation different ways.

I resumed thinking with no idea of what i was supposed to do. I did not know I was to start the new department. I was only given a system, files with no one to tell me what was happening. While trying to crack my head as to how to go about it, some clients came in and were shouting on top of their voices threatening to beat who was on the seat. Somehow(miracle i guess), i got them calmed down and promised we'd get back to them within the week. They even left cracking jokes about what a little girl can do to an angry man. My boss(a white guy) was just grinning from ear to ear and said in a low tone ' welcome on board' and gave me a thumbs up.

First day?

I was the only new person around. They told me to sit and wait in one of the halls till the guy in charge attends to me. Everyone else was busy working, moving up and down, looking busy in one section or the other. I kept making trips to the water fountain just to form busy (the only place I could get to without being asked what I was doing there).  Then closing time reached and they said I should come back the next day! 

What a time-waster! 

I got to the office around 9.am because i was waiting for them to settle down before coming in. I was the only new person. I got there, and went into the managers office and the secretary took me to the man, who inturn told the secretary to take me to my department.

I reached there, after the introduction to the guy, he now took me to my office, it was meant to be a library but it was not arrange, the books were packed in bags, the chairs packed on top of each other, the man left me there, and said that that am a librarian, i should know how to arrange it. i waited for the place to be cleaned by the cleaners which took like 1 week and for that whole week, i was always looking at the time, wondering when it will be 4pm so that i can escape, though my novels keept me busy, though.

After the 1wk, it was work, work, work, at least to set up the place which i have done since.