Texas Richardson : 1st Day At Work

The first day wasn't a smooth one. It started way early in the morning, at 630am. Not that we were required to report for work at 7, but the alarm for the smoke/fire detector went off and it wouldn't stop. What a way to make sure we weren't late on the 1st day.

Called the maintainance hotline but no one answered and was given another number by the automatic voice recording, let's call this number #2. So i dialed #2 and the lady said she would check and get back to us. After awhile she did , and told us there's some problem with the whole block alarm and it's alerting the whole Texas firefighting stations. Told us to wait while the firefighters fix it.

Okie, we waited but nothing happened. Liling and Minh came over to join us for work, it was 8am already. We decided to go over to their apartment to call for a cab. As we left the house, we dint hear any other blocks having alarm problems. ( I gotta feeling i was smoked). The cab took quite long to come, don't think the cabby knows his way ard. So we decided to head back to the apartment and see if the alarm issue was fixed. It wasn't.

Anyway, I found another number, (#3) on the piece of paper they gave us with all the info and stuff. I called and they took down the name..and thanks that's it. Then I found another number (#4) on another paper..they seem to have different numbers printed on different "Welcome" notes. So I called #4 and they say they will look into it.

Finally the maintainance guy came over and got it fixed. 4 numbers...1 guy...so which number actually worked?? I have no idea!! Anyway , the problem was due to a leaking roof that seeped water into the detector and short circuited it. By right they should fix the roof right? Well, they didn't! They fixed the detector ( by unscrewing it off the roof). So now i am having a leaky roof when it rains...and 2 burnt out corpses if there's a fire.

After the guy fixed the stuff...the cab came ( ard 920am) and we all went to work! The fare was 20 USD to work...lucky its only a 1 time cost..will be getting car after that.

Work was okie...1st day we were taken to make some ID badges and walked around knowing ppl. The ang mors are frendlier and more helpful. Not as reserved as Asians.

Work ended and we went to walmart where we really shopped like mad..bought tons of TV dinner at 1USD and some washing powder and stuff. Oh the ice cream is cheap!! Ben and Jerry is SGD$4.30 here!

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