well, power outages seem to be a daily way of life now, and eskom (the power company) is saying that it'll probably be this way for the next 5-7 years. luckily power only goes out for a couple hrs at a time, but today it went off at least twice (in my hood) at very opportune times. the first being as i went to work, meaning that many robots (traffic lights) weren't working, meaning that it took me more than 1hr to get to work today (the same route took me 15minutes when i tested it yesterday). the second outage was when i got home, starving, meaning that my electric stove and electric microwave were no good to me. thank god for cereal. welcome to africa.
i went through new hire orientation today, and as i mentioned yesterday, they told me what accenture does and how we do it and what i should expect (just in case i had forgotten the same talks from 2+ years ago). it was good to meet some cool new people tho. the best part about today was finding out that, thanks to my US hr, i am not fully employed in SA yet, and im obviously not working in the us, so, as the training coordinator put it, i'm really in "nirvana". looks like the us hr is dropping the ball again and what they should have done last year, still hasn't been done, so i cannot be fully hired by accenture sa, meaning that i can't be assigned a computer, get a paycheck, get insurance, sign up for pension plan, or pretty much do any work. gracias hr. the other good news is that at the end of orientation tomorrow, i may have to do another 2 days (again) of new joiner orientation (not to be confused with new hire orientation...). i can't really say that i'm looking forward to that, but since i won't have all my papers sorted out anyway, i guess its better than doing nothing.
also, i was told that i am too short to be a nigerian today. sad....and this by a zim/s african guy, whose been told that he's too tall to be a zimbabwean. i guess there's a disproportional number of big/tall nigerians and shorty zims.
i had more to say until i started writing. now im just tired. bed time. later.
1 comment:
Yeah Southern and Eastern Africans generally like Ghanians are shorter except for the Maasai from my recollection. That is because of their Bantu origins. Most Western Africans have a Fulani/Hausa or Middle Eastern (Egypt/Sudanese) origin from whence we migrated hence the height. You are aware though that the waiting period is a blessing in disguise as long as you are covered monetarily.
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