#416 2011 First Post

Post number 416

First post in 2011 since my last hit in Oct 2010.. i have almost given up on this channel completely, because no one really reads.. what started as a blog with a silent wish that good writing and interesting content can lead to a following of readers has became nothing but a personal diary, visited more by friends checking in on that odd count then a reader's following..

2011 is surely a year of change, 17 days into the new year and i have been "upgraded" in my job.. i use the term upgraded because i have not been promoted in neither salary nor rank..

While many would be more than happy to celebrate such "promotions", i have held back so far..

One reason i changed my job was my problem dealing with the ongoings of office work, administrative duties, compiliation of endless amount of data, monthly meetings and so forth.. what i had enjoyed very much in the last 9.5mths is totally going to change..

perhaps i have not mentally accepted the new "challenge" or age has caught up with me that i am happy doing what i enjoy and able to do relatively well in.. i dislike leaving behind things for the next guy when i know i could have see through the process and complete what i was building.. i knew that with time and support, i could make things a lot lot better for everyone.. but things are not to be..

in any job, a promotion in position will be very celebrated, for it means that the path up has started and that bosses have faith that you can perform the higher responsibility job while they have yet to show their sincerity through your bank account.. having said that, with a growing boy and household bills, car bills, renovation bills, living expenditure bills to pay.. i would be crazy to not hope for a promotion and the hopeful tag-alongs of an increment or promotion in rank and grade at a later stage..

let's see what are my thoughts some weeks down, especially when the incumbent leaves for his posting and i'm left on my own..

but still.. i'm not entirely convinced by myself... i am my greatest enemy

#415 OT

This job brings in overtime payments.

Damage done:

Car Servicing: 128

New Yokohama Tires, full set: 490

Total Damage: 618

Now where did my OT money go?

#414 SYorgy

those in the know would be keenly aware on my involvement in SYOG.. as an a volunteer and much less as an althetic, SYOG for me meant hours and hours spent at work, providing logistics support to the hundreds of men and thousands of men hours provided by my company..

logistics support, or any support work for that matter, is predictably routine and not something that people really enjoy doing, you really need to have that "service heart" to do so with a smile, much less for me who prefers operational work and being "on the ground"..

with the constant changes in requirements flying my way and additional spanners thrown into the pool, things just seem to never end and from as early as 5 Aug, it was an onslaught of items, items and items..

when the action kicks in, there are more questions asked, most opinions raised and more comments from all sorts of people, many uncalled for.. just an example of the daily musings, rice is provided for breakfast as the management intent was for the guys to have a full meals before being deployed out (and a busy day, time for lunch would be a luxury) and muslim officers who are fasting during the period tend to skip lunch completely (i found out otherwise a few days in the fasting period).. so the comments were that rice was too heavy and if we could change to noodles or something lighter.. towards the final 2 weeks fo the assignment, we then managed to close the order for breakfast completely and swopped to MacDonald's Breakfast

Looking back, this logistics support work would not have been successful without the help of a good gang of "brothers".. these guys that work under my wing have performed to the best of their abilities to ensure that gaps are plugged and new requirements fulfilled..

by now, things are moving back to "normal" while it always feels that rest is never enough..

on the home front, wifey has also gone through her own version of SYOG.. looking after kiddo while dad dad was away for work as early as 4am and leaving work at around 2am for most days.. to my wife, thank you, to my kid, be good..

i'll write more when i write more then..

#413 Free stuff

Been getting calls from pinoy-accented people offering me a free spa treatment at Body Contours, i hate to admit, but it's either i have serious hearing and concentration problem or i missed the latest codec update to decipher their accent.. advise to companies out there, if you want to engage in direct marketing, finding people who's english is generally audible over the phone goes a long way to ensuring that your product is rightly represented..

as so it goes, they are insistent on "fixing" an appointment for me though friends around me now generally understands that i take an awful long time to confirm if i can/cannot go to something..

so after missing the first appointment, i got a second call mentioning that i am entitled to the VIP treatment at no cost, don't bring your credit card they say! quite strange that they already determined that pressure selling is a cause for people not wanting to risk their mental health and credit cards through such sales gimmick which offers FREE VIP TREATMENT..

oh well, and 3rd call came when i missed the 2nd appointment too and i guess i made my point that i'm highly unlikely to get there in future and i'll just stick to whinning and exploring decent massage places instead of actually doing something about my aching body

Out.

#412 Down

Readership has been down, i mean really down.. has it got anything to do with my lack of content? i'm sure its does!

Haa.. hang on

#411: Three

3 months on 20th Jul

well, i guess today about sums up some internal problems that i face.

1. female officer who left and asked to come back with promises of improving attendance and performance failed very badly and was terminated today, i served her the letter

2. another female officer who i post out of my sector has now been reassigned back to me, warned her about her performance and attendance, chances have been given, one more strike and there'll be a second termination letter for me to serve

3. internal problem, vendetta from a DY resulted in questions asked indirectly about my sector.. with enough problems dealing with clients and internal parties from other BUs, the last thing we need is one of us pulling our leg from our backs, its the internal enemies that pisses me off indeed

out