Assorted Ravings of the Slightly-Weird

Mouthing Off

I may have severely blown my chances of getting promoted with a series of emails I sent last night but I was too pissed off to care.

The background:
Slightly over a week ago I sent an email out to the secretary of our team leader, asking what work I had to do for an upcoming conference call. I had also told them that today would be a holiday in a separate email. And then last night, I was checking office mail when I found in my inbox an email requesting me to hand in 5 pieces of research by tonight.

Man, was I pissed off.
1) I had already sent an email asking what work I had to prepare, way in advance and they only bothered to reply slightly less than 48 hours before the call. 24 hours of which I was going to be on holiday, and I was sure as hell not going to pass up my holiday for work.

2) When I sent an email to the secretary explaining to her that I couldn't hand in the work on time because it was a holiday, she had the cheek to reply with something along the lines of "I assumed you knew what you had to do since you emailed me a few weeks ago about this." Complete and utter bullshit.

3) Out of the 5 pieces of research I had to hand in, I had already done detailed work on 4 of them a couple of weeks back and presented it to the group. Why in the world do I have to keep presenting on the same companies, especially when I just did so less than 6 weeks ago and my views have not changed? How unproductive is that?!

So, after bitching to CTG (who unfortunately happened to be on email with me at that time) I sent a nicer email to the team leader and explained the situation. This morning when I woke up, there was no reply.

F*cking A. If you expect us to get our work in on time then you should also have the courtesy to tell us in advance what we need to prepare. Less than 48 hours, during results season, is not going to get you A-grade work. And a reply once in a while would be nice.

Anyway, the call got pushed back to a later date. My other colleagues should be thanking me for sticking my neck out and complaining. I may have used up serious brownie points man.

Ok. I'm done with the ranting. Oh wait, one more thing. Al-Ameen (opposite Beauty World) is now on my boycott list. The service is horrendous and a 25 minute wait for prata is just ridiculous, especially when the whole restaurant is only half-full. And, to have the gall to claim that service is slow because the place is "packed like the Padang", when it's clear to everyone that on any other regular weeknight there would be at least a third more people in the house, is simply a lie. From now on I'm going to Al-Azhar.

Luckily things got better later in the day. Winning at mahjong definitely helped, though I made 2 silly mistakes that cost me 20 bucks. TWENTY BUCKS! Sigh.

Happy National Day everyone!

Posted by scrabbyfoo at August 9, 2005 11:08 PM