Today is my first day at Yahoo! India. Mixed emotions, to be honest. While I came here with no excitement, but a lot of anxiety, I was feeling good once I actually got there. Sitting in the waiting/meeting room while the documentation was completed, I was really looking forward to seeing my new workstation and getting started on whatever it is that I'm going to do here. But what a dampener that turned out to be. From 10:30 am to 3:30 pm, I was literally sitting by myself and waiting around. Nothing to do. Nothing damnit! Half the time I spent in the waiting room and the other half at an empty workstation that was assigned to me. The whole while I was waiting for my laptop to be given to me, but apparently there were some issues configuring my ID on the internal access server. 3:30 pm I was finally given a temp laptop so I could just surf around a little. That's really where I'm sitting and writing this post. What's a guy to do?!

Anyway, despite all this my first look here has been positive. The people seem to be nice but the general atmosphere doesn't seem to be as warm as it was at Directi; it's much more formal here. Then again, I've hardly spent any time here; I hope to change that opinion pretty soon.

I learn that there's been an internal restructuring here a week or two back so I'm now reporting to someone other than who I was told previously. To be completely honest, I'm now not even totally sure of my role here but I'm guessing (/hoping) it's going to be better than I thought (touch wood).