30 March 2005

A series of unfortunate events

Yesterday seems like all went wrong. I don't know why? Woke up with a swollen eye and body rashes. That's okay.I went on time to the bus stop to take the feeder bus. I have four buses that will reach my destination but none turned up like usual. I reached the pick-up area to find that my company's transport had left.

And I remembered that I had no cash with me to take a cab. The atm could not generate small notes and I ended up with all the 50s bill. Got on a cab and when I reached the destination and handed him the 50 bill, I got a scolding for giving the cabbie big notes in the morning. The driver went on nagging about the note as he gave back my change. Told him that it wasn't my choice to give him that big bill in the morning because the atm could not dispense small cash. Was being retorted back: "If I know you only got 50 dollars, I won't even let you in." I stared at him with that annoyed look. I should have slammed the door hard on him. Speaking about customer services. Your earnings are depending on us and you still give us crap service!

I tried to start the day at work as normal. It was the start of a new project. And of all the time, my assistant decided to take half day leave because her father was hospitalised. I must have lose my cool and I yelled it out at my colleague who let her off. Everyone look at me like I had no compassion and only work matters the most. Yeah, they didn't know that she would always either MC or on leave when my on hand projects were at the peak, the time I needed most help. It happened too many times and what happened in the morning ignited the fury in me.

Today, she's back. In the morning probably she must have heard about the situation, came to confront me with a couple of documents. "You say you got a lot of things, how come only 2 pieces of documents?" I looked at her: "The big stack of paperwork are with her (pointing to another colleague that helped me) . It's that much." Sheepishly she tried a smile and walked away. If I have no compassion at all, today you will tonnes of paperwork to clear.

1:32 p.m. . by ichigo