Trychydts in English

After my first complete week at my new job, I had to participate at a workshop on the weekend. I arrived home on Sunday afternoon, my head full with new information — at least I can be considered fairly competent at one of the three main fields I have to work on.

At first I was terrified when I heard that there would be some team-buliding games. I had to endure many of these at my previous job on several weekend workshops and summer conferences. I was only happy when I could find and excuse not to participate in them. Most of the time, these games were completely pointless, badly organized, and, to make it even worse, humiliating. Now I see it was only because of the bad trainers. This weekend these few-minute-long ice-brakers did help to form a team from the participants and to warm us up for the real work.

I was a bit unconfident first whether it was a good idea to consider me a part of the team. After all, I was there not to contribute in the results but to learn as much as I can. Then, surprisingly, it turned out that even I could find a role for myself. When we had to work in small groups, I could help mine to summarize our results. I could also solve some disputes with reminding the group the original task.

The weekend was useful because I could forge some kind of good relationship with two colleagues of mine. One of the few small drawbacks of my workplace is that everyone or nearly everyone is super-serious and super-reserved. Of course, I do not expect anyone to chat with me all the time. However, at my previous job when new people joined, we did find some time to help them to fit in the team. Here no one really bothers. For example, I really had to struggle to keep up at least some conversation at the dinner table. Fortunately, my boss is a real exception It is good because it’s him I had to spend most of my time with. He is really nice and easy going and even able to talk while eating or travelling.

However, today when I showed up in the office, I felt that the two other workmates who were present at the workshop are somewhat more friendly. Not too much, but I have received some nice remarks and some small, collegian smiles from the corner of their mouth. It was worth to sacrifice my entire weekend, after all.

When I arrived home, V. expected me with a superb supper. She also cleaned the flat, put everything in order, so we could spend the entire Sunday afternoon and evening with each other. Finally I could even have some weekend-like weekend.