Today is my first day at ASM. Waking up at 6.45am is not an easy chore, especially when I’m freaking used to sleeping at 3 plus am and waking up at 12 plus although most of the days, I was woken up by my mum at 9am to look for a job. Went to the wrong company early in the morning.. Haha.. yes, the cuckoo me again and I was late for 10 min for the first day of work. Boo.. Luckily, the person in charge of HR was nice enough to wait for me. I must have positive karma for I have been meeting good people around. Anyway, there are uniform provided even for admin stuffs so that means that people here are not particular about attire. Some of the people are wearing jeans to work, I realized and so I will follow suit tmr.. Hahaha.. I can wake up later in this way since I don't have to bother about dressing up. Yay!!

Anyway, working as a purchasing assistant is not easy. There are so many things that need to be learned.

First: Must learn how to type a Purchasing Order (PO) Form, fax it to the company after that, then call them up to see if they have received the PO and have to ask for acknowledgement after that. Have to do some inbound logistics before filing all those papers up. (Actually, I’m quite worried that I will mess the papers up cos it is really huge slack of papers at one time.)

Second: Make a trip down to the store to check if there are any replacements parts. If there are any, I will have to do the Goods Return Note (GRN) forms then after that call the company to inform them that the replacements parts are ready for collection at the store. All information is to be keyed into the company’s shared system. Anyway, I have to do the trip twice in a day.

Third: Collect invoice from the engineers then check if the price quoted tally with the system. Best is when all tally. And when it does not, then I have to send an e mail to the company to ask for quotation. I was being told, some of the companies will delay the processing so I have to ask them for it everyday. Hahaha.. I will become naggier after that.

Fourth: Have to send self audit form on every Monday to companies and again, have to chase after them for the form.

So basically, these are the things I have learned today. Big headache this time, luckily I jotted notes along the way. So, it is still manageable for now. More works are expected to come in since 2 of the engineers are still away for leave and will be back only on Thursday. Anyway, as mentioned earlier, I have to go down to the store everyday and cos most of the people there are Malays, they have difficulty pronouncing my name and so for convenience sake, they named me Michelle. -_-“ So now, the whole company call me Michelle. Damn! The first thing when I pick up a call, “hello. Is that Michelle?” Sianz..