I survived that horribly exhausting week! Towards the end, I totally looked forward to going back to work in Newton!

Moreover, it was quite terrible because I kept making silly mistakes that are so brainless at the end of the whole gown collection. I was totally sleep-deprived like mad! So much that I needed, it took me the courage to ask for another afternoon off from my world’s nicest boss to replenish the sleep I required! Of course, as the world’s most brilliant boss you can ever have, my wish was granted! I was glad I asked for it, because I was totally refreshed after that. Can you imagine I overslept twice that day?? Once on the west-bound train to Jurong East when going to work in the morning, and another on the east-bound train to Pasir Ris when going back home to catch my nap.

Anyway, gown collection was nevertheless fun like last year! The only difference was, I did a lot of packing this year instead of attending alumni. Packing was a really awesome brainless job for me! By the time I ended my morning shift in e office, my brain would be half-dead. I could keep my hands moving non-stop, but my brain practically felt exhausted. Luckily, nobody complained I was doing the “easier” job. I guess which job scope is easier is totally subjective. I wonder if any other student helpers there preferred to do serving alumni or packing. I prefer the latter, of course. I hope they didn’t mind at all. Oops! And I think I love gown collection because of the working environment. Perhaps the workers there are mostly students, and we had no stress over unnecessary issues.

Of course, it would really bad to work long-term, from waking up at 6.30am, and getting back home at around 10.30pm. Dinner became supper, or I don’t know what. I will prefer my bread-on-the-go-for-lunch + long-bus-rides-to-work-and-back-home work schedule anytime! At least I got to catch a wink on the long bus rides.

I asked a question on Twitter previously. The question is, would one prefer to working in a place where you like your job scope but not the people there? Or you prefer the people there but not the job scope? Now I have got a definite answer. I prefer the latter.

I really cannot stand it & got quite pissed off on certain days last week. There are certain things I don’t really mind, like being nagged at. You’ll be quite surprised that I’m really patient over naggy people. What I really cannot stand is people doing my part of work for me (which are obviously easier?) & asked me to do their work for them! And that is not everything! It is fine to ask me do the manual work of unpacking for her. The last straw was rearranging everything I unpacked all over again! What is the point of asking me to help then? Moreover, I did the right things by following the instructions she gave me to arrange where things should be. It totally makes me feel stupid as if I can’t get anything right at work. I swear I am working fine.

And obviously, I really feel irritated to have my job done for me. You may think I should be happy that I do not have to do it myself. But think again, I’m totally not thankful for that. Since that job scope involves me forwarding emails to the relevant people, she is not being helpful at all. I am not stupid or ignorant. She was on leave when that SC CC boo-boo incident happened, so she did not know the complete actions that were taken. I was already informed informally to forward emails related to that incident to higher ranked personnel instead of the usual personnel. However, thanks to her “kindness” of doing my work for me, she forwarded that email to the usual personnel, and 自作主张 to our manager. Not knowing I was not the one who stupidly forwarded the email to the wrong person, our manager replied back addressing me to forward to that higher ranked personnel in future. I am not angry with my manager, because she also thought I was the only one handling the account.

The best thing is, she didn’t even tell me that there have been emails addressed to me, and continued doing the follow-up procedures on my behalf for some. I only found out when I was doing the monthly report because the emails are being categorized already. That was only discovered partially. I discovered the other half when I was doing 1 of the remaining follow-up procedures she did not manage to reach. When I read it, I was totally clueless what was going on. I had to spend a longer time to go through which authorities that email had gone to & where it originated from. Isn’t it more troublesome for me?

Of course there are some other things I’m unhappy about with her. But I shall not elaborate. I hope she will not pester me this coming week.

In contrast, I find my other working place a pleasure even though I do not really like the job scope. The people there are cheerful and friendly. Perhaps it is in the “genes” of their industry, I don’t know. But they don’t 明争暗斗 at all. They just have frequent open friendly competitions over their work results, and both winners and losers are really gracious no matter how the outcome turns out to be. You can feel the genuine feeling they give you. Not fake at all.