Monday, June 30, 2008

Culture shock of the day

I might make another post later today, but I just wanted to put this into words while I got the chance...

So today was the my first day at CRIOMEC, the company that I'm interning. It was my first day and neither the company nor I knew what to do with the new situation, so I didn't do anything greatly productive today. But here's the culture shock of the day: I can get off work at 3:30 P.M. here. Here people start working early in the morning, between 7-8 A.M. or so, and keep working without a lunch break until 3-4 P.M.. They eat light snacks but no one-hour long lunch break or anything. And then after work, people eat a fairly large meal. This meal is neither lunch nor dinner. Dunch, maybe? So there's no big meal after this "dunch" but people normally eat snack, according to Mihai. So I need to get used to this system soon.

My superior at work, Cristi (his name is probably Cristian) said that this system is "heaven" compared to 8 A.M.-5 P.M. working hours. It allows you to be more sociable, gives you more time to do something you love, and therefore making you more "complete" person. OK, I guess this is my chance to be more "complete" for once!

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