Today it is my first day of work in Shanghai. Though I traveled to the Shanghai office very often, today I still feel a bit nervous to get into the office.
Tim, the planning director at Shanghai, gave me a brief orientation on Ford and left me with tons of presentation to digest. I can see how my life will be stuck with data.
I sat at my new desk. Maybe the HR thought that I am already an old employee, I would know my way around. I did not get any new employee orientation. I needed to ask for the IT to set up my server, printer, Internet connection & email. I reminded my HR for giving me card key & stuff. Today I did not do much work, but chasing for this or that from different. The only achievement I have is to force the HR moving me from a budget hotel to a reasonable serviced apartment, I can't live with a stinky bed for 30 days.
In the afternoon, I did one briefing to Beijing Creative team via conference call. It is a huge challenge for me since my Mandarin pronunciation is known to be not clear. And my voice got distorted via the transmission, this made the creative very hard to understand my words. I needed to speak in extremely slow speed like a Grandma and open my mouth as wide as possible. But it is a good training for my Mandarin.
I come back to the hotel at 7pm, and start writing my award case studies. It will be a busy week, I can't wait to come back to Beijing for the long weekend.
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3 comments:
awww brian, sorry to hear that your first day in shanghai didn't go as smoothly as you had hoped. good work on getting yourself a plushier pad!! hope we'll still see you on the weekends at least...vanessa
i thought your mandarin has already been improved after a year in beijing!
so you have a nice service apartment in shanghai? can i stay with you when i visit u?
Evans, you can stay with me when you visit me. You say that same thing for Beijing, but you have never come.
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