My first week at GIC, rather impressed by the overall environment, and in all, a good first week. I was rather expecting to see more people though (there's only about 20) when i pushed open the door for the first time, but as i later found out, there's still an entire floor of colleagues on the floor above us (phew). Our floor has the tightest security in the building, even when you need the lift to get to us, you need to scan a card in order to activate the floor button, then you can press our floor number.
And when i accessed my personal workstation, everything feels the same. So i thought to myself to test out whether can surf Internet. To my horror, NO! I was feeling "what the ..., only restricted to private Intranet ... " But i remember seeing a guy surfing the Net when i was being introduced around the office, hmm ... and as i later found out too, there's a "crack" for this, but guess i shouldn't ask this during my first week. Not yet. Luckily they have radio though, at least something.
About security measures, i have yet to work for any companies that value security this tight, but this should be the tightest as you can get. Every few steps in my office is a CCTV camera above your head, fingerprint biometric to open doors, the most kiasu one is 3 doors to access an area, all 3 doors have to scan fingerprint to open, no cards or anything else. The poor chap who showed me how to use had failed a few times just to get the door to open. And also, matrix-type drawers you can push around where access to compartments are hidden behind by other drawers. I heard they going to improve further soon, or rather, kiasu further ...
(normally in much smaller font) Although I major in IT, please do not expect too much stuff for my blog. I created this blog to note down my feelings, not to kill time =p