Its been an interesting time at work. The whole corporate culture thing hasn't really been a thing at the last place I worked at. Its probably because all I really talked to was my direct line manager and the people in my team. At this vacation work place, theres a lot more interaction with other teams and so forth. Its probably because we're more a supporting role rather than in actual operations, so we're responsible for a bit more.
Meetings are a new thing for me. My last job only had team meetings that really didn't accomplish much at all. All we talked about was how the team was going, and only a couple (out of about 10) people actually said anything constructive. 'Real' meetings on the other hand have a bunch of agendas, set things as goals for further work, and even have a printable agenda. I went to one of these and it was actually quite interesting. It involved the IT people supporting a system, and the manager of the people who used the system. I didn't really know what they were talking about most of the time, but I guess thats what kept it interesting.
So guess what? I organised my first meeting the other day. It was about the project I've been given to work on. It involved the HR lady (the business owner of the system), and a couple of IT people. We worked out quite a bit and it gave me some more work to do over the next couple of days.
Politics at work isn't all that prelevant either. I guess being an intern for two months kind of excludes you from that aspect of it. However, I'm not really looking forward to any increase in politics. Its just really annoying, but I guess it helps to keep the lunch break with people interesting :)
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