Fika…

Sekedar sharing cerita 2 hari memulai kerja di department sendiri setelah 1 bulan training melulu *belom abis deng, trainingnya, huhuhu*. Baru 2 hari tp rasanya dah gabruk bgt aja. Kejadian2 gabruk ini terutama disebabkan oleh 2 orang senior yang bener2 deh, berasa sama senior bgt klo deket2 sama mereka (senior, as in senior di SMA =P). Pertama, karena mereka memang sudah bertahun-tahun lamanya kerja di section ini, jadi dari umur dan experience, jelas banget deh klo mereka senior. Kedua, dari knowledge dan skills mereka. Mereka 2 otaknya my section deh pokoknya. Mereka juga sering dengan baik hati (walau dgn style yg rada2 mengintimidasi)  ngajar2in orang2 baru. Tapi yang paling ajaib tentang mereka bukan hal2 yg disebut di atas, tapi kalimat2 yang sering terlontar dalam conversation2 qta sehari2…

—Day 1, afternoon, @ the staircase, going for a meeting—

K: “Hey, Arfika. Do you understand Chinese?”

à pertanyaan ini dilontarkan berhubung di section ini kagak ada engineers yg ga chinese

Me: “No, not at all.”

L: “Hey, do you have a Chinese name?” (nanyanya polos bgt)

Me: Bengong beberapa detik… *kyknya si K jg bengong*

Beberapa detik kemudian:

K: “Don’t have, lah… She doesn’t understand Chinese at all, she said. What for she has a Chinese name?”

L: *ketawa, manggut2*

—Day 1, afternoon, @ meeting room—

My 1^st meeting, saudara2. Meeting kecil dgn section lain yang masi satu department. Satu orang dr section lain ini presentasi reportnya. Dan sesuai dgn yg sudah gw anticipate sebelumnya, gw ga ngerti! Terlalu banyak technical terms. Cuma ngerti bbrp persen dari yg diomongin, less than 50%. Dalam hati niat nanya ke engineer2 se-team nanti abis meeting.

Di tengah2 meeting:

K: (dgn volume agak rendah) “Arfika, you know how to calculate that value?”

Me: “Ha? No, lah. Only been here for 1 month, what? That thing, of course I never see before.” (Dalam hati: Oh, jd ceritanya pada ga ngerti jg, tho, huhuhuhu.)

Q: “Never mind, they’ll teach us later.” (ngomong dengan super duper santai)

—Day 2, noon, @ the section lorong—

K: “Hey, Arfika. So you’ve been here for 1 month, rite?”

Me: “Ya, why?”

K: “You know, we have a custom here. Usually the new hires will treat us after 1 month since they first came”

Me: “Ya, I know. But I heard after confirmation, rite?” (which is 5 months from now)

à merasa agak2 curiga krn skrg kan masi 1 bulan, koq udah dipalak aja.

K: “Where did you hear it from?”

Me: “My friend” *sambil nunjuk department sebelah*

K: “Different dept, mah. Here, we do it after 1 month”

Me: (Dalam hati ga percaya, tp di-iya-in sama colleague yg ga suka bully2, jd percaya) “Ok, then”

K: “This Indonesian restaurant, k?” (menyebut satu jenis Indonesian restaurant di causeway point)

Me: (Dalam hati) Aih, semangat bener, sampe udah ngincer tempat makannya -.-!

“You want to go there? Ok, no problem. But why, ah?”

K: “Nothing. It’s just because we often come across this place, and usually nobody eats there, always empty. So we don’t need to book, lah”

Me: “…” *gabruk, berpikir sebentar*

Me: “Hey, if the place always empty, then that means the food is no good, you know, or too expensive. Don’t want to go there”

(Dalam hati: Aduh, ni orang ga mikir smp ke situ, gitu, ya? -.-!)

K: “Hmmm” à *mungkin ni orang mikir, “bener jg, ya”*

—Day 2, noon, @ the cafeteria—

Btw ya, mereka jarang bgt makan di kantor, soalnya dah bertaun2 kerja di situ, jadi bosen sama makanannya. Entah krn lg ga ada mobil, atau kayaknya krn siang ini ada presentasi abis lunch break dan mereka lg sibuk siap2, mereka terpaksa makan di kantor =P

K: “So, what do you like to do in your spare time?”

Me: (jawaban standard) Reading, sometimes watching movies, the normal2 ones, lah. Then, what about you?”

L: (Dengan tampang serius) “We’re intelligent people, you know. You see, in our section, we must be creative and smart. So we like to play board games, to improve our critical thinking and creativity in solving problems.”

Me: (Antara percaya ga percaya sama jawaban mereka. Percaya krn mereka emang pinter2 abis plus nyolot (nyolot menunjukkan klo mereka kritis =P). Ga percaya krn “masa’ iya, siiiiiiiiiy? Boong banget gt, lho, jawabannya.” Dalam hati pengen bales, “Ih, ngaku2 suka board games, dah pernah ke Mind Café, blom? Pasti belom deeeeeeeeeeh”, tp udah malez nimpalin mereka, so…continue eating aja lah)

Oh, swt…

Note: swt = -.-! (emoticon sweat drop)