Thursday, February 01, 2007
howdeyy. ok for some reason ive got really really bad karma or something. nothing seems to be going my way. damn i thought id be deliriously happy the first half of this year, celebrating my (well deserved) break from school. nyeahh.
first of all when i started work, i hated it. but then after a week or so i decided hey im gonna be rich. so i was fine with it. until my boss decided that for the second half of the day i had to go to the office to help out with their admin duties. initially i thought
neheeeheh soemthing new! this shall be fun=) so the following week i went to the office like i was told.
i was introduced to about half a million people (imagine the number of handshakes i had to endure) and my first task of the day: data entry. woooo. terribly exciting. *rolls eyes* next task: photocopyy! even better! i was given a whole file to photocopy, sheet by sheet. and when i said 'huhh? the
whole file??' the lady who made me do the photocopying said "hee hee why? too little ah?' !!!!!! and there wasnt even a countertop for me to keep track of which ones have been copied and which ones havent. so i improvised, and dumped them on this other machine thing. then my boss came to check on me. and said "sharifah, blablablabla.." (insert gasp) "oh no, please dont put these documents here.." she points to my machine countertop. "this is actually a shredder."
i could have died of embarrassment at my utter stupidity.
so anyway the office people bully me with all the mundane chores they'd rather not do, thus developing my growing hate for the office. let me elaborate with an example. a few days ago, i came to the office all cheery and keeping a positive attitude to finish up my day. little did i know that i was going to be very. very angry an hour later.
first task as usual was the lame ass data entry (which ive learnt to deal with by kicking my shoes off, sitting cross-legged on my chair, blasting music from my mp3 -to block out the telesales officers who keep saying hi can i speak to mr tan is this a good time to speak to u just a short service call neeneeneeeneeneee noise noise noise - and have my trusty coffee by my computer) anyway, on that fateful day, i finished the data entry bit pretty fast so there was ample time for my colleagues to BOMBARD me with more arduous chores. yippee.
so. disaster chore number one: filing!! i was firstly introduced to Mount Paper. there mustve been at least 2000 sheets stacked up in wobbly piles and stashed into a box. and my task was to sort out all the papers chronologically, dated from jan 1st to dec 31st 2006. and to my complete disgust, the papers werent even sorted according to month! i didnt only have to sort, i also had to punch holes in every sheet AND file them up in those huge bio ring files and separate each date with a divider and then label the files. give me history lessons any time. id have more fun.
so anyway. filing is effing
HORRIBLE. i was givn a lame ass hole puncher tt cant punch to save it from the trash can, the ominous Mount Paper added on to my misery (and somehow worsened the back ache i was suffering from), i was friggin bored, tired, hungry, thirsty
AND my poor butt was begging for mercy from the thong from
HELL. i wanted to cry.
and then.
i found out that i had to spend the
whole day at the office frm nx wk onwards. my eyes almost popped out of my head and there was the this-cannot-be! sound effect in my head.
i really wanted to cry.
-aysha