No, I'm not working at the plant, but nearby at the 41X building (below). It's standard office setup; cubicles, water coolers, etc. It's got a central spiral staircase which I've been told about twenty or so times to hold the handrail else managers, or other employees, will condemn you for not doing so.
The work load has been relatively non-existent, so far. There were mandatory training videos, orientations, important documents to be read, but for the majority of the time there were large gaps in time when there wasn't anything to do and our team leader wasbusy in meetings. I've been told that this is pretty typical first week, and that now that I'm somewhat brought up to speed on their systems that I'll be getting some real work really soon.
My title is Operations Applications Support. I work in the Business Line Applications branch of Syncrude's IT department. This branch deals with essentially all the applications that Syncrude uses, my particular team deals with application that are used in the field and plants. I'm supposed to make sure that of the three hundred or so applications they use in the field they run smoothly and get them working if they are not. While it sounds a little daunting, I'm told I'll personally be working on probably five or six applications for now.
A long while back, before I left, I was sent an email for a Holiday party that the IT department was holding for employees of Syncrude and Exxon. I had accepted and it just so happen to fall on this Friday, a day I got off from ADO (additional days off). I and pretty much everyone in the office had attended. There was food, dancing, and karaoke. It's apparently one of the perks of doing a January co-op, along with wonderful, fantastic, frigid, snow!
Here's some photo's of the party:
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