Not repeating mistakes is a form of progress
And that is from my sachet of instant coffee. I actually agree.
I can't remember when I made a last coherent entry in my blog. Probably when I made the mistake of walking from the train station to work in chucks. That was painful, and since I never did it again, I guess you can say that I've made progress. Haha.
So, what's new? Let's see... I usually spend anywhere between 10-12 hours in the office. This is most likely due to my propensity towards avoiding the crush of commuters in the morning which tends to end up with me being at work 1-2 hours early. Heck, there was one time when I was literally the first person in. Not even the IT people weren't at the office yet. Gave our security guard quite a shock first time that happened but they're used to it now. Frankly, people here are more worried if I'm not in 30 minutes before my shift starts, which has yet to happen. Yeah, I am OC to the core.
Work. There were days when things were easy breezy, not much to worry about, clients and shareholders were happy, the boss was happy, which makes me happy. Those days seem so long ago. Now, it's stress the moment I step through the doors and I'm insanely busy for my entire work day, so much that I hardly take breaks, my record time for lunch was 5 minutes, and I still get people (clients, mostly) complaining that I'm not doing my job. Nowadays, the people who know me personally keep asking me to take a break. Problem is, I don't think there is anyone who will willingly pick up the slack if I do. There was one time I left a message for my co-workers to do something while I was on my days off. Guess what? When I came in, they still weren't done. I always get some cockamamie excuse about them (one more than the other) forgetting. Bloody friggin' hell. I am actually scared to take my leaves of absences or even my sick leaves because I feel that I'll only be stressed when I come back because my email will most likely be full of people either complaining, pleading, or telling me to go take a long walk off a short pier for something that most likely wasn't even my fault. If things are this bad, why not resign? The thought has crossed my mind and yeah, I might, but I promised myself that I will give this a year. Which just makes me wonder how the team will fare when I do.
On another note, one of the things that makes me wonder is why people think that it's cool to be rude and downright... the word escapes me at the moment, but you get the idea. I swear, people can be so ill-mannered nowadays that little old ladies (and sometimes gentlemen) get a start whenever I open a door for them or say thank you or even offer to help them when they look lost. Makes me wonder what the world is coming to. Or maybe I'm just too goody-goody. *shrugs*
I can't remember when I made a last coherent entry in my blog. Probably when I made the mistake of walking from the train station to work in chucks. That was painful, and since I never did it again, I guess you can say that I've made progress. Haha.
So, what's new? Let's see... I usually spend anywhere between 10-12 hours in the office. This is most likely due to my propensity towards avoiding the crush of commuters in the morning which tends to end up with me being at work 1-2 hours early. Heck, there was one time when I was literally the first person in. Not even the IT people weren't at the office yet. Gave our security guard quite a shock first time that happened but they're used to it now. Frankly, people here are more worried if I'm not in 30 minutes before my shift starts, which has yet to happen. Yeah, I am OC to the core.
Work. There were days when things were easy breezy, not much to worry about, clients and shareholders were happy, the boss was happy, which makes me happy. Those days seem so long ago. Now, it's stress the moment I step through the doors and I'm insanely busy for my entire work day, so much that I hardly take breaks, my record time for lunch was 5 minutes, and I still get people (clients, mostly) complaining that I'm not doing my job. Nowadays, the people who know me personally keep asking me to take a break. Problem is, I don't think there is anyone who will willingly pick up the slack if I do. There was one time I left a message for my co-workers to do something while I was on my days off. Guess what? When I came in, they still weren't done. I always get some cockamamie excuse about them (one more than the other) forgetting. Bloody friggin' hell. I am actually scared to take my leaves of absences or even my sick leaves because I feel that I'll only be stressed when I come back because my email will most likely be full of people either complaining, pleading, or telling me to go take a long walk off a short pier for something that most likely wasn't even my fault. If things are this bad, why not resign? The thought has crossed my mind and yeah, I might, but I promised myself that I will give this a year. Which just makes me wonder how the team will fare when I do.
On another note, one of the things that makes me wonder is why people think that it's cool to be rude and downright... the word escapes me at the moment, but you get the idea. I swear, people can be so ill-mannered nowadays that little old ladies (and sometimes gentlemen) get a start whenever I open a door for them or say thank you or even offer to help them when they look lost. Makes me wonder what the world is coming to. Or maybe I'm just too goody-goody. *shrugs*