Today was rather interesting at work, so to say. What started off as a pretty regular and slow day turned completely when I found myself in the middle of a drill, that was totally unannounced. Well, clearly some people knew about it in order to set things up, but both my colleague as well as I were not in on it. Which in itself is a good thing, because in real life situations, you don't get a call upfront either : you just find yourself in the midst of a situation and proceed from there.
Thus I think we all learned something today, and after the drill ended, our customer asked me for a full report of what happened, what problems I ran into and how everything went. Less than one hour after my final report I received a reply and a small change was already made to existing procedures to prevent wasting too much time, and get more efficient at dealing with the emergency we trained on today.
All things considered, I'm quite pleased and hope to have more of these things thrown my way, as it'll allow me to familiarize myself with procedures quicker, and get more experience under my belt. Which is something I still lack, although that's not suprising if you know I've been in this job for just over a year, and in this specific position less than 4 months.