A Brand New Life for Me

Synthomer Sdn. Bhd. (a.k.a. SSB) is the company I'm currently working with, starting from 1 Jan 2008. This company is just located 200 metres away from my previous company (RMSB) and both companies are sharing the same management system in terms of HR, Finance, Accounts and IT departments. However, there is a vast difference especially in operation wise. A brief introduction of SSB's background are as follows.

The Synthomer group of companies forms part of Yule Catto & Co plc. Synthomer is a world-class supplier of synthetic polymers to industries ranging from paints and adhesives to textiles, speciality papers and plastics. We specialise in polyvinyl acetates, polyvinyl alcohols, acrylic polymers, styrene butadiene latex (SBR and Nitrile) and liquid polybutadienes (Lithene) and offer a broad range of products, created in 10 manufacturing centres.

In Kluang site factory, the main product is NBR which stands for Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber latex. It is produced by emulsion polymerisation of acrylonitrile and 1,3-butadiene. This NBR latex is mostly suitable for manufacturing of various types of gloves ranging from household gloves, surgical gloves, examination gloves, fabric supported gloves and etc.

Okay, let's stop all the formal things. Being in the new company for 3 weeks, what I can say is I really need more time to adapt to it. Everything is so new and not familiar to me. For instance, the working environment, the colleagues, the nature of the job as well as the boss.

Kick off with the working environment. Comparatively, I prefer more my previous working office. The main reason is because the new office is so small that it only fits in 4 people including the boss. Yes, the boss is in the same room! OMG, it sucks! This is the only part that fails my "ideal office" criterias. I personally do not like the boss be the same room with me, cos I ought to stay alert all the time in order not being caught "ular". But in terms of stationeries and office utensils, I got bigger desk and colour printer here and I got my own scissors, more pens, own stick and paste and etc....which I did not experience ever when I was in NR.

Next, as mentioned in the previous post, I got two colleagues now. One is an Indian gal; another is a Malay guy. The Indian gal just joined the company for around 1+ years meanwhile the Malay guy joined the company since the commissioning period, about 6 years. Both of them are nice-talkers, can talk a lot of things not only working matters but also some gossips. We exchanged a lot of SSB and RMSB stories and of course we gossiped a lot about the restructuring issue too. The Indian gal has got a very good command in english. I could hardly find grammar mistakes from her speech. Really thumbs up for her english! Owing to have less colleagues now (previously was 6 colleagues), the office is kinda silent compared to the previous one. Previously, I had chance to speak mandarin more often; but now, it turns opposite due to no chinese colleague here. Nvm, I would take it as a good chance for me to polish up my english in order to deal with the MatSalleh boss.

Last but not least, it is about the MatSalleh boss. I only managed to meet him up at the 3rd week of Jan. The first two weeks he was outstation in KL since December. Basically, he is a British, last time was working in Synthomer UK and then was relocated to Kluang since 2002. Undeniably, he is a good-looking guy but unfortunately, he is considered short (about my height). OMG! His english sucks! I could hardly understand his english! Sometimes, I just don know whether he is talking to me or to the others. Compared to other MatSalleh, his slang is totally different, his is greatly thick! My colleagues told me that he came from a "kampung" area in the UK so that's why his english is not easily understandable. They also took time to adapt to his english and I hope I manage to....I think I need to watch more James Bond 007 movies....

Already 3 weeks, nope, going to be the 4th week in the new company, I still don get my own PC! My boss told me that I will be using the Inidan gal's dekstop and one more laptop will be issued to her. But, when will he do that? How long will it take to get the laptop ready? He must know how low the IT department's efficency is! As long as the laptop is not ready, I will have no PC to use.... the life without PC really suffers and boring to death! When other departments colleagues saw there is no PC on my desk still, they were so shocked and said: "Boon Kiat, so kesian! Where is ur PC? Ur PC still not here ah?" Aiyoh, what can I do? It is beyond my control....Even my colleague has been informing my boss that I still have yet got my PC. Sigh! My boss dissappears again to KL starting from next week and left a big question mark for my PC....