First Day Jitters

I survived my first day at Lexmark!  Here is a quick summary of my day.

• I learned most people don't arrive to work until 9:00 to 9:30 am and I am use to starting my work day at 7:30 am
• Europeans tend to take the week off after Easter, so we experienced light traffic driving to work and 70% of the desks in my area of the office were empty
• There are 220 people that work at the Geneva office
• Lexmark likes to have security.  I need a badge to go anywhere (except the bathroom) and I have to constantly re-login to various software
• The controller for the EMEA (European Middle Eastern Africa) is Italian and I had a half hour meeting with him today and probably understood every third word.  His accent is thick, I mean extremely thick.
• My manager is Italian (his accent is not as thick) and my boss is Canadian
• The entities I will be in charge of are based in Algeria, Dubai and Slovakia
• Most of the manual accounting work is done in the Philippines since it is cheaper to employ people there, however, they make a lot of errors and that will cause my most headaches
• I had a salad at a cafeteria for lunch and it cost 17 francs!