New Job day 3

The first day was as awkward- as first days can be. This is the office, no- just here, it may seem small but fits our needs. This is the kitchen area- about that, when we said you have to do dishes we forgot to mention there is not a dishwasher and you have to *wash* the dishes. Here is the candy dish that you need to keep filled as you will walk by it and have "just a couple" every time you get a drink of water. (you might need to take some extra Jazzercise classes)  This is the small space that you will need to share with the young lady you are training with/replacing. This giant sign with it's protruding metal logo hangs just above where you sit for training, so you will need to hit it with your head as often as possible whenever you stand up. Here are some of the things you will need to learn how to do. Here, tape these receipts to this paper and I'll train you on this spreadsheet if there's time. (??) 

Day two took a bit of a nose dive. The young training lady has bad allergies and a bad reaction to her meds and is not feeling at all well. The computer we share is breaking down and backfiring like an old model T. So it's decided that they are going to get a new computer. It's a laptop. The young lady's eyes nearly bugged out of her face and she was quite indignant that now that she was leaving, the position was getting a laptop. (I knew it for what it was. They are thinking I'm going to need to work from home; nights- weekends.) There are fires that need to be put out so I am in charge of wiping and rebooting the laptop (cause yea, I do that all the time *snort*) and getting it set up with everything I'll need. Wiping it, takes out the Network driver. So I have to use ChittyChittyBangBang to find the correct driver online and get it on to a flash drive then to the laptop to get it up and running right. (we won't talk about finding the printers when there is not a network connection THAT was a "fun" hour. It would have helped if I had a CLUE as to what I was doing instead of searching for a screwdriver in a dark room, not knowing what a screwdriver looks like and not knowing it wasn't IN the room to begin with)
So I have already learned A LOT. Due to some miss communications (assisted by allergy meds and headaches on her side and frustration about printers and network drivers on mine) I've convinced my trainer that I'm not very attentive or smart.

So today I am going by Dunkin'Doughnuts and getting her favorite coffee and swinging by the cupcake place and getting some mini cupcakes and I'm hoping that we can start anew today and see if we can get along a bit better and recover the awkward  friendlyness that we had on Monday.(which is much better that the borderline loathing that ended yesterday)