Workaholism Alert

whoa....just got home at 11pm.
like F tells me, it's starting to feel like i'm working in singapore!

i'm gonna miss driving home
it relaxes me
to cruise in the wind, radio blasting
i'm gonna miss just working here
starting to feel like i'm part of the family

we had fun yesterday
just teasing each other
GB has very kindly passed around the "she said AH is cute" rumor
so everyone's been teasing me abt it
even my manager was like "oh AH is coming? that's yvo's fav customer isn't it"
and whenever we joke abt AH, they'd be like "better ask yvo's permission first"

i was telling master archer all the old men are gonna start giving me funny looks and their phone numbers
"psst, that's the girl who likes old men.."

we stayed late (again) last night to finish a group report
the whole group is in pretty deep shit
but we're all trying hard to shovel the shit off and get out of the hole
when the team is huge (4 companies involved) it takes a while for news to filter through
and it takes an emergency for everyone to sit up

anyway master archer and i created a spoof report and sent it to GB
it was really funny
it cracks me up just thinking abt it

W was with a customer yesterday and asked to borrow a pen
i whipped out the pen with the fur-ball
i thought it was pretty funny to whip out a pen with fur ball at the end
he just gave me a resigned look and reluctantly took the pen and jotted down points from the customer
all the while shooting me grudging looks while i laughed at the side

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yesterday wasn't the best of days
master archer, in his usual myopic ways, decided to push his workload to some other party
it was an assignment that was very tedious
and usually i was the one who did it
i wasn't expecting it to get as huge as it got
and obviously the manual way wasn't the smartest way to go
my view is to be creative and think of an easier way, like make some program to lighten the work
or if i can fit in my schedule i'll do as much as i can
or we can pass the work to another team
but at the end of the day look at the options and choose the ones with the least disruption
master archer's solution is simple
push it to the other team. full stop.
it is obviously the option where he doesn't have to do anything.

when i first started i used to hang around in the other team a lot
and i saw how they worked
and their inconveniences. there were lot of procedures to follow that were tedious and inefficient.

i didn't want to just throw the burden at them and add on to the inefficiency
if there's no other way we'll do that but let's explore the options first
i got overruled.
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and that's why big companies get inefficient.
the more pple there are in the company the more personalities you get
and many just put themselves before the company
they do things to cover themselves without looking at the big picture

i know to the company i'm just a statistic and a body-in-a-chair
ultimately i'm working to add value to myself
to see and learn new things
both technical knowledge and management styles
it just feels more meaningful i guess, to see that i'm helping the hand that feeds me

dedication shows
i've never really doubted that
the best is to be dedicated and be outspoken so that pple know
(from a management bk: " if no one knows what you're doing, you're doing nothing")
but even without being outspoken, you can tell when pple are dedicated

master archer is not dedicated but he craps a lot so he can cover himself
i'm not sure if i'm the only one who can tell that he is the weak link
i can see how issues just go round and round without getting resolved with him in charge
because he keeps pushing responsibilites away

dedication earns respect
i respect GB and FJ
i would go the extra mile to get things done for them because i know they would do the same if they could
GB got onto the program even later than i did
(the program was often in deep shit so pple keep getting fired)
and like FJ pointed out, we never saw the previous leader stay around as late as she does
she is dynamic and funny too
so it's just a lot more fun
impt lessons in leadership

at the end of the day
if you know a lot or are willing to learn in order to know a lot
and you're proactive and dedicated in getting issues resolved
it shows
don't have to be superman, just do what you can

hell if you're gonna spend half your life working, might as well have fun and satisfaction doing it
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the good news is i don't think i have to work this weekend
the bad news is tmrw will be another come-home-at-midnight day