so i was meant to go and work with Linda and ... Suzie? this morning but apparently Linda comes in late on Fridays so Kay was very nice and offered that I could do some coversheets. So yeah, i started sifting through all the coversheets for ... the 1st of December and i sorted them out into two piles (one to go into alphabetical order and the other needed coversheets - but the top one needed a coversheet somewhere inside i think so it looked like it didnt need one). Finally Linda came and told me she needed me so I was like :\ okay! except I was half way through my coversheet job but i just left it there. Linda showed me how to add the information in a statement of claim onto the nsw dept. of attorney and justice database ... it was really cool :)
i was a bit worried about my coversheets cause i was wondering whether Kay was okay with me just leaving it there. when i left she was on the phone so i didnt say anything ... i wanted to at least tell her that i had sorted it into two stacks so it would be easier for her to continue. turns out (when i walked to my work station later) a man called Alex was sorting out the coversheets and my two stacks were gone :( i felt bad cause i think he thought i had randomly sorted it out into two stacks cause one stack was too tall and the files might topple over and smoosched it together :( but if he went through them he would notice that a whole heap together needed coversheets right? >.> ah well.
anyway, after seeing how to add the statement of claim onto the database, I went and had morning tea :) after coming back, Suzie explained to me what a garnishee was and gave me some paperwork to do. she had to put in the receipt details in the computer (she said that it would be too much for me (and it really was - looking over her shoulder the process looked quite complicated ...)) and i would separate the different copies (already printed) and make sure that one copy would be sent to the plaintiff, one kept as a file copy and another sent to each defendant. if there were any remaining copies the plaintiff got an extra copy. yeah it was cool :) cause i printed a little letter from which i would change the address every time for a new defendant :) apparently you dont even need the letter (as in it's not a rule to have the letter with it), but the sutherland court people said that they didnt want the defendants to be confused about the jargon used and stuff so they kindly attached a letter explaining stuff :)
afterwards i put all the defendant letters into their corresponding envelopes :D boring as it sounds, it was entertaining and relaxing hehe. i thought that i would have done like one hundred and something but when i counted (yes i counted ... for the sake of telling people on my blog ehe) i had only sealed 31 envelopes. OH and when i went and randomly got a stack of envelopes it turns out i took 29 (i was only 2 off!)
after finishing that, i went to lunch. after lunch I asked her if she wanted me to go and write down the names of the few books i had left and she said that Joe would really like that. when i came back downstairs, Kay was no where to be seen and her shoes were underneath her workstation. in a messy fashion.
IS THIS A SCENE OF A CRIME? DOES THIS REQUIRE ... FORENSIC HEROES?!
spoiler ahead. sorry, that was me being weird. I FINALLY FINISHED FORENSIC HEROES 3!! yay but my fav actress died in the drama :( sad aye.
anyway. i ended up waiting for 25 minutes to ask if she wanted me to type it up (i couldnt log in to the computers anyway). the first sign i knew she was going to come back was when i heard someone shout 'where are your shoes Kay?!?!' and she was like (walking in) 'i kicked them off!' or something like that. that bit is really vague in my memory so chances are i'm far off. well yeah, it was funny.
omg and Kay was like :O at around 3:00 cause she was like OMG I ENTIRELY FORGOT THAT YOU ASKED TO SEE THE CELLS THIS MORNING!! and she was like quickly dialling on her cool workstation phone and asking downstairs when i could come. i could come in 30 minutes.
i had not finished typing up the library books. one more page of handwritten names to type up. GO ME!
3:25 and i FINALLY WROTE THE LAST BOOK IN! i was like (literally) (hands up in air) 'YAY I FINISHED!' and Kay laughed. later when i proof read it it turns out i left out three lines so i quickly added it in. by this time the 'corrective services' guy had come in to fetch me. then he took me down a way i'd never been down before and showed me the cells :)
it was super cool. there were no loose objects e.g. fire extinguishers cause apparently they werent allowed .. otherwise it'd be easy for bad guys to take it up and whack an officer with it. the only things on the wall were emergency buttons ... and they were spread out every few metres and it's for an officer to press if in danger. the cells smelled. the officer explained that if they had a female they'd put her in a special one cause it's closest to the exit into court and that if she had to walk past a bunch of bad boys they begin to 'behave like little kids' (direct quote from the guy who was showing me around). it's also really cool cause the cells actually have passageways leading to like the police station and the court upstairs. like it leads to the little box where they hold the accused .. you know? it's so cool. i was like WOW. they also showed me the surveillance stuff and you can see EVERYTHING. all the passageways, etc. and they have a place to put guns cause you're not allowed guns inside in case bad guys take them and shoot good guys. they also have a thing that looks like an american locker and they have the content labelled on the front and it was something like 1x helmet, 1x sword and other stuff. really cool stuff.
yeah :) that was basically my day. except for the awkward moment. omg that awkward moment was ... awkward. i was so glad that i had gone through my week without awkward moments until the last word i said at work on friday was awkward. its hard to explain without context but i'll shove that in my friday awkward moments post. it's late and i stayed up typing this in case my memory fails me. bye bye bye bye! :D
Showing posts with label work experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work experience. Show all posts
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
work experience day 4!
like always, i tell myself to make a blog post yet i get delayed by hours cause i get so distracted by other people's blogs! everyone's posts are so wonderful and they make you feel good :')
today i had to do the coversheets for next thursday. thursday is the callover day or something so it's got the most paperwork ... today I overheard Kay say that there was 'only' 140 today to go through ... so we attended call over at 9:00. it ended at 11:30 and this time I helped a bit more (not just sitting in the corner) because I helped Kay give out some bail continuance sheets and photocopied some court list thingo :| but this time wasn't as interesting as monday's :(
monday's was much more interesting even though i just sat there for the whole time ...
on monday there were some solicitors who came to adjourn (i think this means postpone) hearings ... but a large proportion were people who were asked if they were gonna plead guilty or not guilty. so it was really interesting listening to their conversation with Lance and trying to figure out whether they were guilty or not. they'd try and explain and argue and stuff so it was cool. but today the call over was 30 minutes longer and basically every single one of them was the person saying 'I still need to find a legal representative ... I have an appointment on 30 November.' then Lance will adjourn the hearing to 1 December. that was it. far less interesting :(
so i spent almost the rest of the day just doing the cover sheets. i find it amusing how there's a name that seems to pop up every single time ... this person must have been in court quite a few times =/ at 3 Kay said that she'd do the rest of next thursday's papers and that I should go to another lady and work with her. it was computer work! she was telling me about stuff that i'd learnt a little about in commerce and ipt and it was cool :) she was saying how large the database must be cause it holds all the data on all cases that the state deals with, etc. etc. she also taught me about adding a civil claim onto the database and how to do stuff on it. the thing is, i slept late yesterday night so i really wanted to yawn but i knew it would be really impolite to yawn. but i couldnt just clamp my mouth shut and use my lip muscles to secure it together cause i'd look pokerfaced and that's impolite too. so i gritted my teeth really really really hard so i could still smile but not yawn. omg i felt like an idiot. if anyone was watching me i would seem like such a horrible person! the moment the lady turned around i would yawn and when she turned back i would just blink away the tears and just smile :) omg, luckily she didnt turn around too often or i would end up crying! (from the yawning tears - just clarifying).
she also showed me the old database system which they used up to like ... 6 months ago or something. omg it looked so old! it was like the command prompt on our computers! i couldnt remember what it was called so i googled opposite of gui lol and apparently it's caleld a command line interface. i dont even recall that at all ... i must have really really bad memory that i entirely forgot it!
urgh. well afterwards, at 4, when i got to walk back to my workstation my mouth was sore. not as sore as after the history and geography sc ... i found out that when i'm nervous i actually grit my teeth for the whole exam. that's like 2 hours of continuous teeth gritting. i couldnt bite properly after that for a few hours haha! sadly Joe and Kay had left (i didn't get to say bye!) so i couldnt get him to sign my sheet thing ....
and i love the massive printers that are like the size of me. you know those ones? yeah. today i tried to not-awkwardly crouch down and watch how it photocopied a double sided sheet .. it was so cool :) but i was confused cause there's this one thing that's in the way of the papers coming out and im confused about what it does =/ it's like ...
tomorrow last day :( awwww. i would willingly make coversheets and gain money from it. it's fun :) writing the day and printing coversheets and attaching them and then arranging like 29837602 papers into alphabetical order. i just realised how repetitive it actually is, but i like it :) tomorrow im gonna enter some statements of claim or something into the database =/ i really enjoy overhearing snippets of office conversation and i find myself just smiling while working ... a bit like talking to katherine on msn :) to others im endlessly smiling to my computer!
i also noticed that some people often use the office phone to do stuff that's not really court-related. like making physio appointments, trying to get a renovating quote, calling family members, etc. but obviously they're really quick, harmless phone calls :) its actually really cute and it just shows how everyone feels so at home here :) ehe im listening to asian music on my asian mp4 player cause today i feel like asian drama sound tracks. yes i randomly feel like different (often VERY different) music everyday.
im sure no one's gonna read all these posts cause they're just slabs of text 8D let's just leave this so i can read about my work experience experiences when im older :D so blogger, you better not suffer server failure or something. you will wreck heaps of people's lives :@
today i had to do the coversheets for next thursday. thursday is the callover day or something so it's got the most paperwork ... today I overheard Kay say that there was 'only' 140 today to go through ... so we attended call over at 9:00. it ended at 11:30 and this time I helped a bit more (not just sitting in the corner) because I helped Kay give out some bail continuance sheets and photocopied some court list thingo :| but this time wasn't as interesting as monday's :(
monday's was much more interesting even though i just sat there for the whole time ...
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| see? literally in the corner of the room. on a chair. with no armrest. no table. Kay is the court officer and a guy called Lance is the registrar :) they're both super nice. |
so i spent almost the rest of the day just doing the cover sheets. i find it amusing how there's a name that seems to pop up every single time ... this person must have been in court quite a few times =/ at 3 Kay said that she'd do the rest of next thursday's papers and that I should go to another lady and work with her. it was computer work! she was telling me about stuff that i'd learnt a little about in commerce and ipt and it was cool :) she was saying how large the database must be cause it holds all the data on all cases that the state deals with, etc. etc. she also taught me about adding a civil claim onto the database and how to do stuff on it. the thing is, i slept late yesterday night so i really wanted to yawn but i knew it would be really impolite to yawn. but i couldnt just clamp my mouth shut and use my lip muscles to secure it together cause i'd look pokerfaced and that's impolite too. so i gritted my teeth really really really hard so i could still smile but not yawn. omg i felt like an idiot. if anyone was watching me i would seem like such a horrible person! the moment the lady turned around i would yawn and when she turned back i would just blink away the tears and just smile :) omg, luckily she didnt turn around too often or i would end up crying! (from the yawning tears - just clarifying).
she also showed me the old database system which they used up to like ... 6 months ago or something. omg it looked so old! it was like the command prompt on our computers! i couldnt remember what it was called so i googled opposite of gui lol and apparently it's caleld a command line interface. i dont even recall that at all ... i must have really really bad memory that i entirely forgot it!
urgh. well afterwards, at 4, when i got to walk back to my workstation my mouth was sore. not as sore as after the history and geography sc ... i found out that when i'm nervous i actually grit my teeth for the whole exam. that's like 2 hours of continuous teeth gritting. i couldnt bite properly after that for a few hours haha! sadly Joe and Kay had left (i didn't get to say bye!) so i couldnt get him to sign my sheet thing ....
and i love the massive printers that are like the size of me. you know those ones? yeah. today i tried to not-awkwardly crouch down and watch how it photocopied a double sided sheet .. it was so cool :) but i was confused cause there's this one thing that's in the way of the papers coming out and im confused about what it does =/ it's like ...
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| there was actually one thing that i thought of and it sounds absurd. maybe (cause it scraps the paper when it comes out) it makes a sound so when you're standing (you cant see this bit if you're standing) you can get feedback and know that the paper's actually printing ... |
i also noticed that some people often use the office phone to do stuff that's not really court-related. like making physio appointments, trying to get a renovating quote, calling family members, etc. but obviously they're really quick, harmless phone calls :) its actually really cute and it just shows how everyone feels so at home here :) ehe im listening to asian music on my asian mp4 player cause today i feel like asian drama sound tracks. yes i randomly feel like different (often VERY different) music everyday.
im sure no one's gonna read all these posts cause they're just slabs of text 8D let's just leave this so i can read about my work experience experiences when im older :D so blogger, you better not suffer server failure or something. you will wreck heaps of people's lives :@
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
work experience day 3!
so ... i started off making coversheets yay! Kay asked me if I wanted to sit in court cause I could if I wanted to ... but I said that I'd rather stay and do stuff in the office :) turns out all the previous work experience girls preferred to stay in the office too haha! I guess it's not just me.
Kay ate an egg today for morning tea. She would get this tissue (the thick ones ... a bit like the ones Matt Preston(?) advertises for) and fold it into two and lay it on the table ... and eat the egg. An occasionally she's wipe the side of the egg on the tissue like it was leaking water .... yeah it was amusing. I met other ladies and they asked me what I wanted to be and Kay told them I wanted to get into medicine or architecture (i corrected her with engineering) and they started talking about their kids and what they did. cause one lady's son was a civil engineer. was. he's now a mining one.
the funny thing is i asked another lady if she wanted my seat (there're only 4 seats and one table in this lunch room cause it's the smaller one). so she said no and Kay was like 'aww ... she's a nice one.' -pause- 'giving her seat to the elderly ...' and the person sitting next to Kay burst out laughing. apparently it's an inside joke :| Kay remarked that she said that half heartedly just because her friend was there and, while laughing, the friend talked about how Kay wouldn't dare to say that to one of the other colleagues. yeah, everyone was laughing and no one seemed to have the teenagers-are-not-nice attitude :D
oh and this reminds me. one of the people where i work looks slightly ... a tincy wincy bit like one of the characters in glee. it sounds funny saying characters cause you usually think characters are like ... not real. you know what i mean? but the people in glee are real. but they're not. OMG YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?!
well later i had to sort out the children's court cases from the normal ones. and make coversheets for them. this actually took me quite a while cause it's actually quite time consuming figuring out if one needs a new coversheet. cause you gotta sift inside and see if there are other things that the person did and stuff ... im still not very good at this job haha! and, of course, every single time i would have to sort it into alphabetical order afterwards. i then did the coversheets for next monday and tuesday :) also i had to tick off some of the cases and stuff from a list (i've seen them scan the stuff into the network, but there's SO much paper ...)
oh and i forgot to mention. the way they talk is cool. like if they want you to find the papers for john smith they would say "do you have ... in the matter of Smith." i forgot what they say in the ... so hehe :D
lunch was cool. i used the microwave for the first time ... there were bits of food in there. like crumb sized bits of food stuck to the microwave walls. urgh. this time I read about 'Mary and Kate's royal pact' ...
OMG TODAY I SLEPT IN BY LIKE 98709876 YEARS. not really. i got up at 8 when I usually catch the 8:05!!!!!!!!!!! and unless I sprint I can't make it to the station from home in 5 minutes. so i do actually remember my alarm clock ringing and me turning it off (bad move). the next thing I know, my mum goes 'aya jennifer it's 8 o'clock why aren't you up?' i immediately glance at my clock and - my gosh - it's a little past 8. i leap out of bed and almost run into the bathroom. I only spent like 5 minutes in there (compared to my usual 10+ minutes, it's a great improvement). then i immediately changed, spending about 3 minutes. meanwhile my mum was making breakfast-on-the-go for me and shoved it in my bag. leaving home like 15 minutes after i woke up (i'm usually in the bathroom washing my face or changing 15 minutes after i wake up).
also ... today when Kay didnt know what tasks to give me they figured that I could go and write down the book names in the library upstairs. haha, yes sounds funny. the library is really the size of ... a very very small classroom. like the size of my laundry. well there are books in there from the 1880s and they're not allowed to just throw them away without contacting their library so i had to compile a list of all the books. and yeah ... that's what i spent the next 2 or 3 hours doing.
the funny thing was i started hearing girls sing. i could tell it wasn't an adult's voice so i thought it was primary school little girls singing at first! cause it's near the lunch room so i assumed that they thought no one was upstairs so they were like chatting and singing weirdly and acting funny :) amusing! :D so i was giggling and thinking of that awkward moment when I walk out of the library and they're like O_O crap did she hear everything?! well, yeah. cause that always ... ALWAYS happens to me.
so yesterday a lady who was leaning on my workstation was talking to Kay and she started swearing and doing that thing where you go 'effing this, effing that, etc.' and Kay, after about 3 seconds, realised and said 'don't say that in front of the work experience girl!' and i couldnt help but laugh.
and another thing which happened today before lunch ... so i was doing my coversheets when I heard a lady (Mary?) tell this young lady (one of the 'bare shoulder and arms ones') to turn around. so she turned around, and Mary reacted with 'my! i never realised you were so well endowed!' and they started talking about why she didn't notice and she just said she never looked. it was funny cause half the office was laughing and i couldnt help but laugh either :\ awkward. well Mary walked up and leaned on my workstation and began talking about this show that she watched yesterday or something ... and she was talking and, naturally, i was listening. then she started talking about breast implants or something and she was looking around until her eyes laid on me. she immediately stopped talking and asked me if i was still at school. after i answered yes, she immediately shushed and walked back to her station. a few hours later, i overheard her talking about whether people did cosmetic surgery on their breasts for people to see (and they had a little debate over it, but everyone agreed on yes) and that on the show some people doing the surgery were 'already very well endowed'.
yeah, snapshot of office gossip and stuff like that. very amusing :) the office looks really like ... an office.
but it's got none of those office tantrums you see on youtube where the person like knocks down the divider or jumps on their table or throws their keyboard onto the monitor or something. it's really relaxed and everyone's chatting and stuff :) people are nice.
except for when they debate about the air con.
today the air con WAS SO NICE. it was warm. the girls who had just gone out to buy morning tea or something came in and was complaining how it was hot in here ... while most people like Mary, Kay and I were like NO THIS TEMPERATURE'S GOOD! the girls with bare arms were saying 'we told Joe to turn it up by like 1 degree, and this is like 5 degrees hotter!' and i agree. but i think 5 degrees hotter was suitable, so it was good :D even the guy who came in yesterday and said it was like an iceberg said it was hot in here.
at the end people were looking for papers ... and they were all like sifting through the shelves. The name that they said - i was so sure i saw it yesterday! so i stayed for about 5 minutes afterwards telling Kay that i'd seen it and she was asking me which day's lists was i doing when i saw it but i didnt remember :( all i remembered was that it had a blue cover sheet (which i might have put a white one on top) and it was sad cause there were blue slips of paper everywhere and i wasnt much help :( yeah ... cool day today.
looking forward to typing up the list of the library books tomorrow :) and for the third time, i forgot to turn off the computer at my work station. i. am. an. idiot.
Kay ate an egg today for morning tea. She would get this tissue (the thick ones ... a bit like the ones Matt Preston(?) advertises for) and fold it into two and lay it on the table ... and eat the egg. An occasionally she's wipe the side of the egg on the tissue like it was leaking water .... yeah it was amusing. I met other ladies and they asked me what I wanted to be and Kay told them I wanted to get into medicine or architecture (i corrected her with engineering) and they started talking about their kids and what they did. cause one lady's son was a civil engineer. was. he's now a mining one.
the funny thing is i asked another lady if she wanted my seat (there're only 4 seats and one table in this lunch room cause it's the smaller one). so she said no and Kay was like 'aww ... she's a nice one.' -pause- 'giving her seat to the elderly ...' and the person sitting next to Kay burst out laughing. apparently it's an inside joke :| Kay remarked that she said that half heartedly just because her friend was there and, while laughing, the friend talked about how Kay wouldn't dare to say that to one of the other colleagues. yeah, everyone was laughing and no one seemed to have the teenagers-are-not-nice attitude :D
oh and this reminds me. one of the people where i work looks slightly ... a tincy wincy bit like one of the characters in glee. it sounds funny saying characters cause you usually think characters are like ... not real. you know what i mean? but the people in glee are real. but they're not. OMG YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?!
well later i had to sort out the children's court cases from the normal ones. and make coversheets for them. this actually took me quite a while cause it's actually quite time consuming figuring out if one needs a new coversheet. cause you gotta sift inside and see if there are other things that the person did and stuff ... im still not very good at this job haha! and, of course, every single time i would have to sort it into alphabetical order afterwards. i then did the coversheets for next monday and tuesday :) also i had to tick off some of the cases and stuff from a list (i've seen them scan the stuff into the network, but there's SO much paper ...)
oh and i forgot to mention. the way they talk is cool. like if they want you to find the papers for john smith they would say "do you have ... in the matter of Smith." i forgot what they say in the ... so hehe :D
lunch was cool. i used the microwave for the first time ... there were bits of food in there. like crumb sized bits of food stuck to the microwave walls. urgh. this time I read about 'Mary and Kate's royal pact' ...
OMG TODAY I SLEPT IN BY LIKE 98709876 YEARS. not really. i got up at 8 when I usually catch the 8:05!!!!!!!!!!! and unless I sprint I can't make it to the station from home in 5 minutes. so i do actually remember my alarm clock ringing and me turning it off (bad move). the next thing I know, my mum goes 'aya jennifer it's 8 o'clock why aren't you up?' i immediately glance at my clock and - my gosh - it's a little past 8. i leap out of bed and almost run into the bathroom. I only spent like 5 minutes in there (compared to my usual 10+ minutes, it's a great improvement). then i immediately changed, spending about 3 minutes. meanwhile my mum was making breakfast-on-the-go for me and shoved it in my bag. leaving home like 15 minutes after i woke up (i'm usually in the bathroom washing my face or changing 15 minutes after i wake up).
also ... today when Kay didnt know what tasks to give me they figured that I could go and write down the book names in the library upstairs. haha, yes sounds funny. the library is really the size of ... a very very small classroom. like the size of my laundry. well there are books in there from the 1880s and they're not allowed to just throw them away without contacting their library so i had to compile a list of all the books. and yeah ... that's what i spent the next 2 or 3 hours doing.
the funny thing was i started hearing girls sing. i could tell it wasn't an adult's voice so i thought it was primary school little girls singing at first! cause it's near the lunch room so i assumed that they thought no one was upstairs so they were like chatting and singing weirdly and acting funny :) amusing! :D so i was giggling and thinking of that awkward moment when I walk out of the library and they're like O_O crap did she hear everything?! well, yeah. cause that always ... ALWAYS happens to me.
so yesterday a lady who was leaning on my workstation was talking to Kay and she started swearing and doing that thing where you go 'effing this, effing that, etc.' and Kay, after about 3 seconds, realised and said 'don't say that in front of the work experience girl!' and i couldnt help but laugh.
and another thing which happened today before lunch ... so i was doing my coversheets when I heard a lady (Mary?) tell this young lady (one of the 'bare shoulder and arms ones') to turn around. so she turned around, and Mary reacted with 'my! i never realised you were so well endowed!' and they started talking about why she didn't notice and she just said she never looked. it was funny cause half the office was laughing and i couldnt help but laugh either :\ awkward. well Mary walked up and leaned on my workstation and began talking about this show that she watched yesterday or something ... and she was talking and, naturally, i was listening. then she started talking about breast implants or something and she was looking around until her eyes laid on me. she immediately stopped talking and asked me if i was still at school. after i answered yes, she immediately shushed and walked back to her station. a few hours later, i overheard her talking about whether people did cosmetic surgery on their breasts for people to see (and they had a little debate over it, but everyone agreed on yes) and that on the show some people doing the surgery were 'already very well endowed'.
yeah, snapshot of office gossip and stuff like that. very amusing :) the office looks really like ... an office.
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| except the dividers are green and all the little stations have a computer and stuff. it's SIMILAR but not really like this photo. as in it's this type of set out. |
except for when they debate about the air con.
today the air con WAS SO NICE. it was warm. the girls who had just gone out to buy morning tea or something came in and was complaining how it was hot in here ... while most people like Mary, Kay and I were like NO THIS TEMPERATURE'S GOOD! the girls with bare arms were saying 'we told Joe to turn it up by like 1 degree, and this is like 5 degrees hotter!' and i agree. but i think 5 degrees hotter was suitable, so it was good :D even the guy who came in yesterday and said it was like an iceberg said it was hot in here.
at the end people were looking for papers ... and they were all like sifting through the shelves. The name that they said - i was so sure i saw it yesterday! so i stayed for about 5 minutes afterwards telling Kay that i'd seen it and she was asking me which day's lists was i doing when i saw it but i didnt remember :( all i remembered was that it had a blue cover sheet (which i might have put a white one on top) and it was sad cause there were blue slips of paper everywhere and i wasnt much help :( yeah ... cool day today.
looking forward to typing up the list of the library books tomorrow :) and for the third time, i forgot to turn off the computer at my work station. i. am. an. idiot.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Work experience day 2!
So I'm typing this on my phone so let's hope this works ... well today was similar to yesterday. Except yesterday I sat for the whole of call over while today I sat for a bit in court. Court was ... boring. I didn't really understand what was going on and it didn't seem amusing. I started bobbing.
The funny thing is I wad an idiot so I had to ask how to walk in and out. So this ... solicitor? who was the prosecutor taught me to dip my head at the door then sit down quietly and stuff. I must've sounded like a idiot.
I had morning tea while watching a documentary about life and evolution in desert sand dunes and stuff. There was this single light that was on in the lunch room but I couldn't find the corresponding switch so I had to leave it on even though no one was there.
So like yesterday I arranged case things in alphabetical order, printed cover sheets (my favourite job cause you get to use the computer and printer ... the printer prints really fast and the sheets of paper are really warm). That reminds me. I hugged the warm paper every time.
Seriously. In this weather most people are dying of the heat. Me? I was shivering. Dying from the cold. The air con inside isn't too noticeable when you go in in the morning, but the moment you come out it's like over 10 degree difference. Everyone in the office was like freezing ... YET NO ONE WAS LOWERING THE AIR CON. SERIOUSLY. And yes, I realise my hypocrisy. But I can quote a conversation:
Registrar (walks in): its like an iceberg in here!
Girl in sleeveless dress: it's not that cold!
Registrar: look! Your thermometer reads 20 degrees! It's got to be higher than that.
Girl: how do you know my thermometer isn't wrong!? What about people like us with bare arms and shoulders? (Points to female colleague with similar attire)
So yeah. The registrar was cold and he had a long blouse on with a tie done all the way up. I was wearing short sleeves! So crazy as it sounds, I'm wearing a jumper or cardigan thing tomorrow.
So just for the sake of a photo, I have a photo of two sticky thingos which were on some booklet things I needed to add coversheets on :)
Monday, November 14, 2011
work experience day 1!
so ..... yeargh. im working in ________ (dont mention it yet for fear they can google this blog) :D
so i arrived about 20 minutes before my shift starts so to avoid getting lost, etc. after i walked through the ENTRY DOOR, i almost giggled. it was funny. i had to put my bag through one of those machines that they have at the airport and can see all the contents of your bag! the people looking after it were dressed in police uniform so it was cool.
walking into the reception (with my bag) i saw a lady in front of me, also waiting. turns out today was her first day too cause she got transferred from another local court :) she said that engineers got paid really well (after i mentioned i wanted to get into medicine or engineering when i grow up).
walking into the office, i got introduced to Kay who was to look after me (she's super nice and likes chinese food). the person who filled out my work experience forms REALLY looks like a cartoon guy. seriously. like. SERIOUSLY. im not sure if this is the guy but it's one of those things where i cant pinpoint it but i just swear he looks like him.
but i will temporarily not attach it :)
so first i had to make sure that all these sheets had spaces and that the current date was on it so the magistrate could write on it. then ... we went to 'call over'. from what i saw the registrar was simply asking the person if they plead guilty or not guilty but Kay told me that it lessened the burden of the magistrates so that they could concentrate on determining whether someone was guilty or innocent. so i think that's probably why they sorted out when hearings would be and in which court, etc.
afterwards we got to eat morning tea :D i ate morning tea in the smaller lunch room which had a fridge and sink and one table with .... three or four chairs. there was a guy already there and Kay and I sat down. Kay began eating slices of ham while i began munching on my apple (i later ate my biscuits). then i noticed that the guy had the .. meadow lea butter with text on it that said 'property of ______ (i forgot his name). DO NOT TOUCH.' and i got amused. also, he took out a bun and sliced it in half and begun spreading the butter on it. he used quite a bit and wasnt as paranoid as me so didnt spread it to the very sides. then he TOOK VEGEMITE OUT AND SPREAD IT ON TOP OF THE BUTTER. in a thinner layer cause vegemite is so salty. BUT OMG HE ATE BUTTER WITH VEGEMITE!!!!! that sounds quite gross.
anyway. so then another lady called Hannah (i think) came in and begun talking to Kay about ford cars that look like bubbles and Kay said that those cars are very good. then she asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up and what my parents worked as and somehow we landed on the topic of rice. Kay said that once her friend told her that unlike asian stereotypes, they eat rice AFTER they eat vegies. i said no ... we eat rice during eating our vegies >.> and that maybe she was talking about when you're still hungry you go get more rice. yeah and we kept talking.
then i went and had to print out new coversheets for cases that had all the columns of the table filled out. paper based systems omg. BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH PAPER IN THERE ... like your wrist to elbow height stack of paper for like one day (sometimes more, sometimes less). then i had to arrange them in alphabetical order.
then i had to find some cases that were missing and not in their correct pile (hence sorting through several stacks of wrist to elbow high sheets until Kay found the booklet while searching with me). i also had to manually add some cover sheets onto some cases and rewrite the defendant's name and offence on it. also photocopied and scanned a teeny bit.
omg i swear i had so much to say but now i forgot them all. oh yeah, they use the same clocks as we do at school. also, the lunch room is awesome cause the upstairs one is huge and there are magazines! i read about a serial killer who killed 70 something girls in 20 or 30 years. great way to spend my lunch :D also when i was looking through the stacks of paper the stack in 23/11 went missing. she asked if i had accidentally shoved it in with another date (cause it's very important that they're in the right dates) and i said that it was already empty ... and i felt bad :( cause i was scared she thought i did it cause i was new but i was quite sure i didnt. but i cant say for sure. but IM SO SURE.
and and and cause in the morning it was cool and the temperature inside was similar to that of outside i didnt notice they had on aircon. so in the afternoon when i walked out i was suddenly hit by the overwhelming humidity and like 30+ degree weather. but i cbb taking my vest off cause my bag was annoying to open and the station was only 10 minutes walk away. oh did i mention that in the morning i caught a train 4 minutes later than my usual train ... AND MY TRAIN WAS EMPTY. LIKE FIVE PEOPLE IN EACH CARRIAGE. ASHG;PDFHG;SJHGDF. it's what happens when you travel in the opposite direction to the city during peak hour in the morning. IT WAS THE SAME WHEN I CAME BACK. and they were all nice air con trains (just tangara though). but OMG imagine it was like that every morning when we go to school :') wouldnt that be nice.
this post is getting really really long. im so sure i had so much more to say. but i forgot. how sad. well, no photos provided cause i didnt wanna go snapshotting my workmates. coolies :D hope you guys all had fun!
so i arrived about 20 minutes before my shift starts so to avoid getting lost, etc. after i walked through the ENTRY DOOR, i almost giggled. it was funny. i had to put my bag through one of those machines that they have at the airport and can see all the contents of your bag! the people looking after it were dressed in police uniform so it was cool.
walking into the reception (with my bag) i saw a lady in front of me, also waiting. turns out today was her first day too cause she got transferred from another local court :) she said that engineers got paid really well (after i mentioned i wanted to get into medicine or engineering when i grow up).
walking into the office, i got introduced to Kay who was to look after me (she's super nice and likes chinese food). the person who filled out my work experience forms REALLY looks like a cartoon guy. seriously. like. SERIOUSLY. im not sure if this is the guy but it's one of those things where i cant pinpoint it but i just swear he looks like him.
but i will temporarily not attach it :)
so first i had to make sure that all these sheets had spaces and that the current date was on it so the magistrate could write on it. then ... we went to 'call over'. from what i saw the registrar was simply asking the person if they plead guilty or not guilty but Kay told me that it lessened the burden of the magistrates so that they could concentrate on determining whether someone was guilty or innocent. so i think that's probably why they sorted out when hearings would be and in which court, etc.
afterwards we got to eat morning tea :D i ate morning tea in the smaller lunch room which had a fridge and sink and one table with .... three or four chairs. there was a guy already there and Kay and I sat down. Kay began eating slices of ham while i began munching on my apple (i later ate my biscuits). then i noticed that the guy had the .. meadow lea butter with text on it that said 'property of ______ (i forgot his name). DO NOT TOUCH.' and i got amused. also, he took out a bun and sliced it in half and begun spreading the butter on it. he used quite a bit and wasnt as paranoid as me so didnt spread it to the very sides. then he TOOK VEGEMITE OUT AND SPREAD IT ON TOP OF THE BUTTER. in a thinner layer cause vegemite is so salty. BUT OMG HE ATE BUTTER WITH VEGEMITE!!!!! that sounds quite gross.
anyway. so then another lady called Hannah (i think) came in and begun talking to Kay about ford cars that look like bubbles and Kay said that those cars are very good. then she asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up and what my parents worked as and somehow we landed on the topic of rice. Kay said that once her friend told her that unlike asian stereotypes, they eat rice AFTER they eat vegies. i said no ... we eat rice during eating our vegies >.> and that maybe she was talking about when you're still hungry you go get more rice. yeah and we kept talking.
then i went and had to print out new coversheets for cases that had all the columns of the table filled out. paper based systems omg. BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH PAPER IN THERE ... like your wrist to elbow height stack of paper for like one day (sometimes more, sometimes less). then i had to arrange them in alphabetical order.
then i had to find some cases that were missing and not in their correct pile (hence sorting through several stacks of wrist to elbow high sheets until Kay found the booklet while searching with me). i also had to manually add some cover sheets onto some cases and rewrite the defendant's name and offence on it. also photocopied and scanned a teeny bit.
omg i swear i had so much to say but now i forgot them all. oh yeah, they use the same clocks as we do at school. also, the lunch room is awesome cause the upstairs one is huge and there are magazines! i read about a serial killer who killed 70 something girls in 20 or 30 years. great way to spend my lunch :D also when i was looking through the stacks of paper the stack in 23/11 went missing. she asked if i had accidentally shoved it in with another date (cause it's very important that they're in the right dates) and i said that it was already empty ... and i felt bad :( cause i was scared she thought i did it cause i was new but i was quite sure i didnt. but i cant say for sure. but IM SO SURE.
and and and cause in the morning it was cool and the temperature inside was similar to that of outside i didnt notice they had on aircon. so in the afternoon when i walked out i was suddenly hit by the overwhelming humidity and like 30+ degree weather. but i cbb taking my vest off cause my bag was annoying to open and the station was only 10 minutes walk away. oh did i mention that in the morning i caught a train 4 minutes later than my usual train ... AND MY TRAIN WAS EMPTY. LIKE FIVE PEOPLE IN EACH CARRIAGE. ASHG;PDFHG;SJHGDF. it's what happens when you travel in the opposite direction to the city during peak hour in the morning. IT WAS THE SAME WHEN I CAME BACK. and they were all nice air con trains (just tangara though). but OMG imagine it was like that every morning when we go to school :') wouldnt that be nice.
this post is getting really really long. im so sure i had so much more to say. but i forgot. how sad. well, no photos provided cause i didnt wanna go snapshotting my workmates. coolies :D hope you guys all had fun!
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