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darkchoc
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
I’m rather isolated at work due to my seating arrangement and job nature.
Just outside my office, the IT department sits in a cluster of cubicles that face each other. I often overhear them discussing code or cracking jokes with one another. Meanwhile, the manager and his PA share an office to my right. In the left wing, is the office that my boss shares with another executive. I sit alone in my spacious corner office.
Due to my work nature, I liaise exclusively with my boss, whose office is two doors down. We usually communicate via email, MSN messenger or telephone. Everybody else is really busy so they do not drop by to chat. Besides, there are a lot of confidential items in my office, so they are discouraged from entering in the first place. I keep my door wide open so that I can at least see other human beings. But each time my boss drops in or passes by my office, he closes the door. ‘For security reasons’, he explains.
I am not unduly unhappy with this arrangement as it gives me the freedom to skive. But I am worried about not being accepted as part of the team. It is difficult enough being ‘the new girl’; this isolation is really not helping.
There are people from China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore on the staff. And the only language that everybody understands is not English but Mandarin!!! So add language barrier to physical isolation. (Though I can see why they hired me- they needed somebody proficient in English to handle paperwork.)
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