On-Leave Day

Yea, just like the title said:

I'm On Leave

Had a good sleep last night. Without disturbance. Auto-wake-up-mode around 8 in the morning today. It's been awhile since I had such undisturbed sleep, since couple of weeks back. Work stress?? Owh fucking hell yeah!


"The computer is not working, please check it out for me."

"The phone is not working, would you mind?"

"We are short of cables/mouse [insert all computer peripherals' name here], we need it next week, please?"


"Can you send an invitation out to all in regards to the changes?"

"I need you to update the inventory list of computer peripherals currently-in-use in the whole department."


"There's call waiting for you."

"Can help me to release this amount, please??"

"Can you take this escalation call please??"

"Are you going to the meeting later?"

"The cabinet/pedestal is locked. The keys are no where to be seen, we're can't locate it. Can you please arrange the necessary?"


"I need more workstations, which means more computers to be ordered. Can you arrange?"

All the abovementioned are just partial of conversation that I have on a daily basis, which are really outta my job description, seriously. What would be my job scope exactly then, you might ask? Well, to be frank, NONE OF THE FUCKING ABOVE!

I don't know. it seems to me that this below equatino represents the state I'm in now:

Everything = Me; Me = Everything.

And by the above equation, I can declare myself as departmental............

G O D

I'm speechless now. Since when? How come? How come? What have I gotten myself into?!

I'm going to "delegate" everything, or perhaps guide them on how to deal with all these gradually. Slowly, but surely. Today's post seems to be abit short. Yeah, just wanna say the above out. Enough is enough. It's about time this kinda rubbish gotta end. I ain't doing this for free!

Week 3.....

Back again. You might be asking where have I gone past few days, eh?? I went for a farewell party on Friday evening. Home in drunk condition. My old folks knew that I'm drunk as I can barely walk straight into my room. Talk about party eh?

Weekend looms. Well. It's weekend. 2 days for me to just bloody lie around in house, do nothing but lie around on the couch, on the bed, and do nothing. Absolutely NOTHING! And while I was happily rolling all over my bed, got couple of short messages on mobile:

A: "Wanna go lunch or not???"

B: "Wanna go for a drink or not???"

No reply from me, as I've taken my lunch before these 2 short messages came onto my mobile. Both from my mates in the office. Yea, we're THAT close to each other.

An hour later....

A: "Dinner tonite then???"

B: "Let's have a tea then, now. We miss you already."

*Laugh out loud* Buncha idiots. That why the team is very much attached to each other. Probably is due to the fact that we got into this job at the same time, went through the training at the same time, been through shitty days together, until todate. Long may this relationship remains forever. Shit, I'm suddenly so emotional.

Ahh well. That ain't the point. 2 weeks of Motivator in my blog. I think that's about enough, for now perhaps. As this whole week, he'll be in the training room working his ass off to learn everything. Ain't that much, more to the processes involved in the department.

So, you think I've run outta idea to feature here then? What?! Are you kidding me? I'ma give it to you, in your face now. This is something different.

So, I have a friend [D'oh! Who doesn't? You idiot], a gorgeous and sweet, [fuck this, i ran outta adjectives to put this] a friend of mine, [close close friend mind you, intimate? Nope, just close.] She, yes...it's a she. So I'll let your imagination runs wild for now, you buncha perverted minded buggers! She has a brother that gotten himself a job that requires him to work oversea, and he decided to get rid of his vehicle by selling it off and make good use of the cash obtained from the sales. Yea. Sensible choice for all human with brain.

She [henceforth known as S. It's my blog. I can call her whatever I like. As long as she's happy with it.] happen to know a sales person from her previous dealings with him, who has connection with used-car sales-person who can perhaps help her brother in selling off the vehicle.

There, bank draft ready, in hand. Used-car sales-person said he will settle all outstanding with another cheque to the bank. S told this guy to provide her with the documentation from bank proving that this outstanding is done and dusted and they can fuck right off. As usual, everything also:

"Yes m'am, absolutely no problem. Don't chu worry. Everything is good in my hand. You just go home and relax, wait for my good news. I got your mobile number here."

3 months later
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Called him to follow up many times but he never answered the bloody mobile.

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Called him to cancel the vehicle's insurance coverage....never got him, how the fuck to cancel that?!

S got worried. She called her sales person to check on the status of both the insurance as well as the documentation from bank.

Sales guy answered her over the phone that the insurance part is over and done with, however he will need to check with the used-car guy on the bank documentation part.

S's brother called and ask her whether the loan outstanding is settled. S was having the impression that everything SHOULD be done with by now, she duly said:"YES!" proudly.

Hearing this, her brother said:

"Dear, then tell what on earth is this letter from the bank, sitting right in front of my desk, telling me that there are still outstanding amount that yet to paid to those fuckers??"

S, being a cutie pie like all others cuties in the world, know jack shit about all these. Feeling the heat now, she called the used-car sales bastard to check this out. Ain't too sure how serious was the call bombardment lasted by that cheeky lil' used-car sales bastard, he never picked up the call. Failing this, she turned and call her usual sales person to check on that.

As expected, the sales guy shocked and jacked, promised that he'll checked this one out and settle it once and for all. Yea rite, easier said than done. Phone slammed, S followed up with a venomous short message to the sales guy, which reads:

"If the loan outstanding is not settled soon, I'll make a police report"

Seeing the serious of S in dealing this, the used-car sales-bastard finally returned her call, admitting that the loan outstanding is not done yet. [Bare in mind, bank draft was given to sales-bastard 3 months ago]

WHAT

DA

FUCK!?!?!

Which bank did he go to?? Con-Bank?!?!?!?! What kinda bank will take ages to process payment. I still remember when I faced the situation when I sold off my car, the whole loan process was done & settled in no more than 1 month. But this is fucking ridiculous! I got my bank's documentation the very next day after that.

Instead of calling S to calm her lil' soft heart down, the @$$hole chose to send S a short message which reads:

"Don't worry...my boss oversea...will be back next week...loan will settle next week..."

[Next week means this very week that we're in right at time of this post.]

Oversea, what a fucking lame excuse. What if your boss, is stuck in the plane? Took hostage by those bloody terrorists? [God, Not Jack Bauer again] Or perhaps died during a turbulence or maybe stranded in a deserted island and never come back? Who's gonna do this? Surely there must an assistant who is able to take care of stuff when the boss is away??

Rule of thumb in everything you do:

ALWAYS HAVE BACK-UP.

Fire starting to burn in her heart. She replied:

"1. Why is it not settled earlier as promised when you took the car?

2.Which day will it be settled and;

3. which day will I receive the documentation from bank?"

Half an hour later, the dickhead answered:

"I will settle the loan tomorrow with my own money and fax you the receipt."

On Friday night, yea. The night when all hell broke loose at my mate's farewell party, S finally gotten her long-awaited receipt, proving that the loan-outstanding-saga is finally come to an end. All that is lacking is just the documentation from bank to validate that.

S was supposed to be getting the documentation from the sales-bastard today. It's almost 10 in the evening now. Still no news from him. Hence, S sent off another short message to his mobile asking on the status. He duly replied:

"Bank say we settle by cheque, tomorrow clear. once ready email to you."

Wait a fucking minute. It's a documentation from bank proving me that I've cleared off all outstanding balance owing on that vehicle. Why would this even involving email?!??!?! Does this guy knows what the fuck is he doing?

Another day gone, without good news.

S has no choice but do subdue to this sales-bastard work "ethic", as the $$$ is in his hand and she can't do shit about it. If you know the drill.

There you go. Another true story, just like my windscreen insurance coverage post on my brand-fucking-new vehicle previously.

Before you stamp your signature on any documents, everything is OK. Those bloody sales persons will promise you heaven and earth. Heck, they're willing to go through hell to get you sign on it. No question asked.

After all is said and done,

"CANNOT"

"NO CAN'T DO"

"YOU'RE NOT ENTITLED TO IT"

"WAIT"

"YOU'RE NOT COVERED"

"IT'S NOT STATED IN THE AGREEMENT"

All the negative words like those stated above will be uttered from their filthy mouth. Somehow it makes you feels like they are preventing you from doing so, even though they're the exact same marthaphuackers that sign you up for it. Talk about the world outside eh?

Damnit! That's all from me. I've got fire in my heart too, by posting this one up for my "Gorgeous Pie". Need something to cool me down. I'll be on leave tomorrow, just to get myself away from work. Needed a break, even though for one day, badly. I'm mentally, and physically exhausted. Wanna know why is that? Tune in tomorrow, for sure.

By the way, Ad. Good luck in your future undertakings. See you every Friday, same old place, same old time. If you know what I mean. *evil smirk*.

Week 2 , Day 3 & 4

Yeap. Back again. It's Thursday. Gonna rain heavily soon. What happened for past 2 days to my new supervisor u might be speculating? It seems to me that there's a turn of event here. Again, I'm expecting some bombardment from few followers of this humble blog of mine, but please please...do hear me out this time around before you show me the guns and the bombs.[the line "the guns and the bombs" kinda reminds me of the song by The Cranberries "Zombies" ..hmmm.....]

Alright?

Here goes:

After the talk of "conspiracy" on Motivator, I had a thought on it overnight. Putting myself into his shoes. Well, it ain't easy to come to a total new working environment, with zero background on the job, the people et al and yet he needs to lead a group of underlings which are far more superior in terms of job/product knowledge. It doesn't help the situation at all when you're swarmed by meetings, briefings, conferences, calls on a daily basis. Bare this in mind, ON A DAILY BASIS! Not to mention the amount of emails that he'll be getting, in which he might have no clue at all on how/what to do with it at all. Will you have the time slot to do all the aforementioned stuff?

FUCK NO!

Believe me. Again. Put yourself, my fellow readers into his shoes. You would have the same feeling that I'm having at time of this post now. In addition to that, I've just had a heart-to-heart, face-to-face, alone in the meeting room with him for almost 2 hours [if my memory serves me right, that is] talking about almost everything, and that includes what are his problem that he needs to solve right now. Well, the outgoing manager has chosen Motivator as our leader. Irregardless, we'll still have to support his decision and show the same level of support that we once did to the previous supervisors, which happened to be in current company since ages.

As what I'm expected from Motivator, he agreed to my proposition. I ain't laying down the details in here 'cos it's kinda technical, but plans are in motion starting coming Monday. There'll be no excuse for him no to follow this plan, or he'll get it from me [at least that's what he allows me to do, verbally]. The PLAN is more to equipping Motivator with what we're doing in my department on a daily basis, the process flow. The system point of view will be easy as pea as I've informed him that we won't be using each & every screen most of the time. But still it'll be good for him to know the screens just in case, JUST IN CASE.

Well, at least I'm starting to see some improvement, not drastically, but gradually. I do hope that he can learn fast as from what I'm speculating, time is not a luxury that he's owning now. Again, don't you lots fucking quote me on this one, it's just rumors, speculations, gossips, eh??

Like I said earlier today in a meeting with few managers:

"I see lights, finally."

Tomorrow is Friday. I won't be posting in here 'cos I need to attend a farewell party for a mate, our very own trainer's farewell party. Well, it's more like another drinking session, except for the fact that this time around, it's drinking session with a reason. Hahaha.....

Ad, glad to know you. Been a fun ride. Have fun wherever you are, Be success and come back to us with higher ground, if that's your intention to do so. And please, leave with good terms. If 'ya know what I mean. *smirk*evil grin*

Be back on Saturday evening, I might be returning to office on Saturday evening to do some follow-ups. Yea, on Saturday. On my own free will. Yea. Go on, you buncha b-tards & bitches. Laugh at me for coming back on Saturday. Laugh at me for not completing my job during weekdays. I'll hunt you down and strangle you and choke you, just like Jack Bauer. [Gosh! Too much of "24"...Must......Stop]

Jokes aside, I might be posting from the office. God knows.

Nitey nights. Ladies and gentlemen.

Week 2, Day 2

Been a headless-chicken day in office today. At least for myself, that is. Attending meeting after meeting. That took half of my day. Not that I'm complaining, 'cos one of it is the last meeting with our outgoing manager. Nothing sentimental, more like final "gathering" within the department before he takes off to oversea after this week. This session ended quite fast, faster than I expected it to be. Took about 20 odd minutes.

Back to my workplace, less than 20minutes later, another session beckons. This time is with our new manager, addressing our "concern", or whatever you wanna call it towards the dark clouds that are currently coating all over the department. Well, who else but the infamous Motivator?!

Seems to me, there are lotsa stuff about Motivator that I'm not aware of after attended the meeting with the new manager. Bitchin' time? You betcha!

In the room with new manager, together with the outgoing manager, few of us are in it. And the bitchin' session for few of us started.

"Motivator ain't handling escalation properly. Instead of him taking it, he asked the seniors to take it on his behalf."

"Motivator knows jack-shit about our process. It's been a month now and he's still like a newbie."

"Motivator is such a distraction in training."

"Motivator is an MBA, Master in Bullshitting Association. All talk, but no action. Just like our local government."

"Motivator showed no initiative in wanting to learn from us. He said he will, but he's nowhere to be seen few minutes after that sentence."

These are the feedbacks that were thrown in the room to our new manager. There are quite a few "agendas" that were being discussed in that room, but I can hardly remember as these are the few that really stamped deep into my puny brain. Yeah. We're not afraid to voice it out whenever something is not right.

Remember when I posted last time around saying that Motivator is hired by my outgoing manager? Yea. As expected, with us come out all gun-blazing, he's like shielding Motivator, pledged to us to give Motivator some time to prove us all wrong. With this, new manager has agreed to this:

He'll need our help of course, by drawing out a plan of stuff that Motivator needs to catch-up ie. system training, process training and other stuff that a supervisor is suppose to possess in an effort to lead our department. New manager will send that plan out to Motivator directly, disguising as he'll need Motivator to bring him upto speed with all job & process knowledge. New manager will not be in town for a month due to some complications in his work permit, which should be suffice for Motivator to equip himself with the department processes during his absence. Talk about cheeky plan eh?

With this "agreement" in place, suddenly I have a sense of sympathy for Motivator. It feels like there's a conspiracy behind that is against him. I might get fucked from few of 'em by revealing this one in here but, that's what I feel at time of this post.

I know, I know. I've been shooting him with all gun-blazing for the past week and I even uttered out that I don't like what he has done so far. But this one, this plan, it seems abit too much for me to swallow. I think I'm abit at fault in distancing myself from him et al. Well, it's just me, maybe. I'm having mixed feeling right now, to be frank. At one side, I fucking hate him, wish him just leave and fuck off. On the other side, I feel pity for him. Coming in to an entire new working environment, without any background of the job, with big shoes to fill in after 2 very capable leaders have moved on to new role.

Well, since both managers have vowed to get things straighten out within a month. I guess I'll just [again] sit back and see what will transpire after 1 month then. As per the new manager:

"Let's just see what will happen with this plan. If by the 3rd month, upon his confirmation month [yeap, our company always practice 3-months confirmation. Unless you've done yourself a great deal of shitty stuff, which might ends in relieving you off your post or get yourself an extension of the probation period to a further 3 months, until the management is satisfy], I shall see his accomplishment and decide what will the next step to be taken. Until then, please lend him your greatest assistance in helping him succeeding this role."

The man has spoken, and we shall fulfill that.