WW34: Post Big Bang

"Big Bang" refers to the operational change that happened in the company last week. In practice it is similar to a change from one operation system to another. The arising question are, how do you train tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of customers? The customers need to understand how their role in the supply chain is changing; the employees need to know what will happen with their job, most supply put.

For me this meant one thing and one thing only - MORE INFORMATION. I have been expecting my system to overload every day in the past one month. First, there is training on the old process; you finally get the idea and start doing so work and BAM! - "forget everything you have learned, there is a new process now". Then there is training on the second process and by the end of it all you are dropped in the deep and need to manage. My high-school teacher had this one story that was supposed to make me feel bad every time I got an F on a dictation - "we are on a beach, and the whole class is swimming in the deep, Vlad, while you are still on the sand". Well, this time Vlad is not going to stay on the sand.

Surprisingly, this past two weeks (the post Big Bang weeks *or BB) have been amazing. My placement has finally started to kick off with some very busy days, some issues that needed sorting and real challenges. Everyone from the Placement Office in Aston used to say last year that this will be a real job; and it is. So, BB or no BB, placement is going great :)

A little message: Fresher's Week 2009 is kicking off in a month and your truly will be back to the Aston campus to capture all the new adventures and meet the new freshers.