Work or life ~~ 55 Vogell Road ~~ First grand meeting experience

My Boss, Lady Son came to confirmed with me yesterday afternoon, ensured that I was received the meeting invite correctly and I will attend the meeting.

This is another exciting experience for me, it could probably a first national wide corporation meeting since I joined this group. In the old days, they didn't really care if there is need for a contractor to attend such an event.

The afternoon session should be begin at 1:00 PM. My super nice co-worker, Sandy waited for me to finally get out of office, about almost 12:20 PM. She drove all the way before me, so that she ensures I will not lost on the way to the event. I thought we must late, at least we already missed the lunch for the meeting. Well, lucky enough, the lunch was delayed till 12:45 PM. So we had a good lunch right before the meeting.

The conference room was host by Hilton Hotel, big enough to contain about 200 people. First impress was the company logo on two big screens. Then we went direct to the presentations. Not very impressive for first three presenters, the content is probably trimmed before going to public, so they were plain and comment. Until I saw the presentation from dealer net work developer team, they really did a good job in digging the root causes and showed a very impressive visualized data.

If you ask me what is my impression about this meeting as a root level employee, I would probably tell you that I have little disappointment about our marketing team, the data analysis or the facts that I expect to learn from them, actually did not happen. 

In general, what a good experience for me!

Work or life ~~ 55 Vogell Road ~~ it's about a change

I would like to write a short story first. If you are interested in more detail, it's my pleasure to explain in a longer version.

Long in short, I came to know that they have this intention more than a year ago. I was suddenly asked to take on a small analysis task without any clue. Why me? Actually this team has many skilled analysts available (obviously I was given time when having buffer). For them, this task may be a piece of cake, and for me, it's all new. Lucky enough, I completed it much earlier than the deadline. If I knew that it's a test, I'd organize my findings in a strong persuasive presentation, at least with a visualization look.

So I was approached, of course with my curiosity and interest. It is a long waiting time. Nothing was mentioned since the test happened exactly a year ago.

Suddenly, the last day of March 2018, I was asked for a small talk. It's an exciting news, if I am still interested, they will begin to process the fulltime conversion. What a great news! En..then I realized why they asked me to do the internal product purchasing analysis in late February. Could that be another test to see if I am still hands on what I know...I would better not guess anything.

The final result turns out good, I was converted from a contractor to a full time employee.