Aiyoh guys, I can't tell you the company name (I received so many request) la if not everyone would sure knows that it is me since my department is rather small. But I can assure you that it is a big MNC company.

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This is an opportunity my friend. Use the time to learn things to bolster your career. If you're in the IT world, take this time to evaluate and play around with all the new technologies. The best part is you are getting paid!

you are in honeymoon period. Most company is like that. For freshy, 1st 3 month had very little to do then workload will start to increase till you crap..

Sounds like the time when i was in Agilent, for many periods there was really nothing to do. It was soo bad that even surfing the internet was boring!

Start work and 3 weeks nothing to do - NORMAL
Questioning this luxury - ABNORMAL

Like another forumer said, check back with you boss on verbal assignment that you may have missed out. Not possible they hire you to sit around. If really no assignment yet, check out the department's roadmap / annual plan. See where you fit in it, and start working on that area (research background or so). Or join us. No mp3, no external mail, no msn. Only stress

Quit your job and I'll pass you my resume so that I could replace you

Enjoy it while you can....when the workload comes then your head will blow

@ threadstarter...sounds abit like my company now. i can surf web freely, chat online non-stop oso nobody care. cos msn & YM is the way of communication here.

when nothing to do, damn sien. when got things to do. will be busy lilke mad.

enjoy while u stil can. cos this kinda thing doesnt come so frequently.

3 wks is stil too new. give urself sometime in this company. as u said, ur a freshie. so....get ur experience in this company (if any).

This post has been edited by sinoffire: Aug 7 2006, 01:11 PM

Hmm... Why rant while you still can enjoy before your workload turns out tonnes and tonnes of them?

Someone who got high pay in big company but yet they worry becos they think they need to do something in order to have good future. So what their thinking is
better they go outside and do some business.

But for a fresh grad, it is important to get some work experience rather than
to think about what will his/her future going to be.

Unless your father is quite rich, then no need to think so much. Straight away u
can gamble your future by doing anything u like.

trust me..no company will pay u to do nuthin..
just wait...one day when the load comes in u'll cry!
well your companies are maybe just getting enough resources for near future project in the negotation phase or something?
did the company provide training?

well, forget the workload 1st...2.6k for freshie is a lot...some ppl worked their guts out oso get less than 2k...well, watever it is, good luck!

3 weeks only, still ok
don't complain too much, take this chance to learn things
later when the job comes in and you need to camp in till midnight, that time don't cry

haha, i think most freshies go tru this situation at start.
If u reli want to learn things, try to bug ur senior & see what they're doing. Try make frens in other dept & in the process u can learn alot on other area too.
Gd luck...

ur lucky.. u got a good pay with nuthin to do..
contra to me.. heavy workload with small pay..
totally pissed of when i have to do system admin works but with small pay..
not only that.. have to do tech support summore.. being a helpdesk..
of course i get the job satisfaction but with great responsibility, obviously make me demotivated with the salary..
but at least, i've gained invaluable experience..

some advise from me.. hack your company system, spread the virus, down your server and workstation, mess around with the networking and then u will have lot of things to do.. from there u can gain experience.. hehehe

i would say it is a good time for you to self learn some skills... take for my friend's friend in IT field... last time he also got a job with nothing to do one (but not sure high pay or not lah) so he self-learnt and took some prof IT cert such as cisco and microsoft... about 5-6 certs... then when he job-hop his salary rose to 5k and working as consultant... not bad rite?

I've been in your shoes before..
For my first job, I was paying peanut by my employer with hell loads of works to do.. even work for saturday and Sunday.. from 8.30 am up to 10 pm..
then I jump into another company.. they pay me quite good.. but there's nothing much to do.. here I felt more distressed. Last time I can blame the company.. now I only can blame myself for not having job to do.

my suggestion is u stay up till 4-6 months and if there's still the same then quit your job and find something else to do.. too relax can make u become rusty and it's not good when u want to look for another job.. because there's nothing u know or u can put at ur CV.

for the first 4 years after u graduated.. I think experience is the priority.

I guess it depends if you rather be tired of being bored or bored of being tired.

I guess u're right.. it's depends on how the person u are.
or how u want urself to be..