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Today is the is my first day on my new job. I supposedly work as an assistant but an assistant to who and what will I be assisting in? I have almost no idea. The only thing I do know is that I’d be working under Hololive, an entertainment and talent agency for V-tubers. I didn’t really read the job description when I was applying as the generous salary was the only thing that caught my attention and I hit apply without a second thought. To my surprise I landed a phone interview. They asked usual job interview questions like ‘how did you find this job’ and ‘Why do you want to work with us’ and so on; I’m no stranger when it comes to questions like these so I breezed through them and answered with whatever would made me seem like a good honest worker. One question that did trip me up was ‘How much did I know about Hololive as a company?’ Other than knowing that they host V-tubers, I couldn’t think of anything else; my lack of research had caught up to me and I was forced to admit I knew nothing. The interview ended with that question and I fear my last response may have put a sizeable dent in the good impression I tried to make. But again, too my surprise I was accepted on the spot and was told to come in at my earliest convenience.
So here I am getting ready for this for this job and finally ready to leave my unemployed status behind. I dress sharp yet simple with a white button-up shirt, black tie, black dress pants with leather work shoes; I figure this should make for a good impression although I do have my doubts about the job. In retrospect I should of researched more about my job and focused less on the money aspect but what’s done is done so I head out into the big open snowy world.
I had written down the address the interviewer told me over the phone and entered it into my phone’s GPS. A 20-minute walk from apartment, a decent length. 5 minutes by bus as well but since it was snowing pretty heavily and because of that the buses came around a lot less often and I wasn’t bothered to wait for one but I also love a good walk especially through snow. so I decided to head out on foot, also it’s not like I’m on a time constraint, the person on the phone did say to come at my ‘earliest convenience’ so I shall take them up on that and have myself a nice leisurely walk to work. I live within a pretty urban area of my city so I am surrounded by a concrete jungle but I rather enjoy living surrounded by a bunch of tall buildings and loud sounds; I find it comforting, more so than an empty countryside.
And so my 20-minute walk comes to an end with a two story ice white building at my destination, I’m pretty sure I’ve been around this area a few times before but I don’t think I’ve ever noticed this building, though it is a fairly unremarkable building so that’s probably why. Speaking of unremarkable, it doesn’t have any logo or anything showing its relation to Hololive but the GPS does say it’s this building. Looking around, there are no other buildings that look like they might be relating to Hololive so this has to be the one so I head into the building ahead of me.
Stepping through the double doors I come to a well-lit and nicely decorated room, plants, paintings, couches etc… Nice but nothing out the ordinary. At the end of the room is a large desk with a woman typing up a storm on keyboard. She then looks up to notice me and then gestures me over. Heading over I get a better look of her; short blue hair, blue ribbon and glasses. She really cute now I can get closer look at her.
“Nice to meet you. My name is A-chan and are you the one we called in for work?” The woman asked.
It took a few seconds me to realize that she was asking me a question, I was a little mesmerized by her looks and the fact that her name is A-chan, it’s gotta be like nickname or something right? No way it’s her real name. “Uh yeah I think so, This is the Hololive company building right?” I answer her question and respond with my own another question.
“That’s right” she stands up from desk, she’s kinda short. “Well if you don’t mind I would like to brief you on want you will be doing while working this job and then take you on a short tour around the building to familiarize yourself with the workspace
I guess I’m finally about to learn about my job, a bit late to do but oh well. “Yes I’m ready” I speak confidently
“Good I’ll start but asking how much do you know about Hololive?”
“I know it’s a entertainment company with V-tubers but that’s about it” I respond followed with a nervous laughter. Confidence already dwindling; My lack of research is showing.
“So you know nothing about the company or the job yet still applied?”
“Uh yeah to be honest I saw the pay and applied because of that” Another nervous laugh follows, this really isn’t a good impression I’m making, especially towards someone who seems like they might be my superior in this job.
“Well that doesn’t matter, management picked you for the job because they believe that you would perform the best out of all the candidates” A-chan assures me.
That’s actually nice to hear but something doesn’t sit to right with me after hearing that “But how would they know? I didn’t really answer any questions the brought my experiences up.”
“Oh they have their ways of knowing” A-chan winks and smiles at me.
That’s a little creepy.
“Joking aside, They picked you because they looked into your work history and saw it fit well with work you’ll be doing here. Also because you know so little about the company”
That last part struck me with confusion “How does that work out if I know less?”
“Oh you will see soon enough” she answers.
Before I can even think to respond to that comment she moves on.
“Regardless your job is to support our talent however you can; doing anything they ask of and helping out in any way you can.”
“So just like a general assistant then? Shouldn’t be too hard then.”
“Most of the time it shouldn’t be hard” A-chan corrects me.
“What about not most of the time then?” I question, kinda fearing what she might answer with.
“Again you see for yourself eventually” Flashing yet another smile.
Heaving a sigh, “All right I guess I’ll see when the time comes.”
“Ok then with the briefing done, I think it’s time to move on to the tour. Are you ready?” A-chan asks.
“Yes I am ready to look around, lead the way”.
A-chan showed me around the first floor, a lot of small rooms with pretty high-end PCs, accessories and soundproofing covering every inch of the walls. I would of thought this was a high-end PC café if I didn’t know any better. The rest of the first floor aside from the computer rooms were quite normal, there was cafeteria, restrooms etc. All the things you’d usually find in an office building. We then headed up to second floor via elevator and was met with a large office space, many cubicles populated the half floor and other half what seemed to be a break area with a kitchen, large TV and many couches; looked pretty cozy actually. But something seems a little off. Other than A-chan, I did not see a single soul within the building.
“Excuse me A-chan, where is everyone?”
“Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that everyone has the option to work from home, including you. Usually around this time of year everyone prefers to work from home because of the weather but It gets a lot busier during other seasons though.”
“Ok fair enough.”
“And with the concludes the tour, any questions?”
“I have one. Is your name really A-chan?”
A-chan lets out a short giggle “no no no, just a nickname. The talents usually give staff like nicknames because they might mention us on stream. Although I am curious to what nickname you would receive once you meet majority of our talent.”
“I hope it’s something nice or cool or a combination of the two.”
“I’m going to take a guess and say A-kun”
“That’s not cool at all” I rebut and A-chan lets out another giggle in reaction.
And with that ends my first day on the job. I didn’t really work today but it still was an experience. And I look forward to my new work life, who knows what can happen,