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(work rants)

I wanted to put the title as ‘Dog bites dog. Black eats black.’ But it sounds racist. But the black here doesn’t mean the black people. It’s actually literally translated common Chinese saying.

I saw it happened this afternoon.

One of the things that I hate in corporate world is that people use their power and influence to make you do things in their ways. I have seen that a lot in my dept head, and this is the feature that I despise and disrespect him the most. You may say I’m naive, but I believe the best leaders are those who use their virtues to make others submit to them (Chinese: 以德服人).

Anyway, what happened today is that, my dept head was done that same thing he has done on many others. Looking at how it happened actually thrills me a little (although I was scolded by someone on an instruction from my dept head). I think that’s his retribution for doing the same.

I’m not going to disclose the details – it won’t be interesting anyway. But I really like the fact that my dept head has got the same treatment he has given to others. Muahaha~ (Okay, I don’t dare to laugh like that in front of him)

In any case, I still look forward for the day that I can leave this hell. I’ll consider today as a motivation to fight for my exit.

Whatever you do, you can lie others, you can lie yourself, but you can’t lie the heaven. You’re always watched, so make fair judgment, and do whatever that is right. =)

(life rants)
Imagine you woke up with your eyes still sleepy. You literally dragged yourself to the toilet to do business. And you step on a puddle of water on the toilet floor. At first you didn’t feel anything wrong, but suddenly you realized that the puddle of water didn’t look like water. You had another look at it, it looked a little yellowish. You were shocked. You couldn’t believe what you had stepped on, and you stupidly wiped your feet with your index finger and slowly put it near your nose just to confirm it, and it was confirmed. You had just stepped on a puddle of pee.

How’s that? It happened to me this morning. Eww!

I know one of my housemates is not so hygienic. He never picked up a broom to clean his room, not to mention the whole house. That doesn’t matter anymore since the room is his, and our housemates do take care of the cleaniness of the house. He drops hair a lot, and the strings of hair curl on the bathroom and toilet floor and sludge sticks on the hair in a matter of several days right after the last cleaning. That’s not that okay, but I know not everyone is willing to clean the bathroom and toilet and no one can control his hair drop. But wtf, peeing on the floor?! You might as well live in a kennel! Holyshit!

I know you might not have completely waken up when you peed and wasn’t able to aim properly. But after you’ve done, at least wash it away with water, from the most convenient rubber tube beside. What is so hard about it?? My goodness!

I can literally count so many of his bad living habits that I have never seen in a single person before for my entire life! He doesn’t turn off the fan and/or lights when he’s not using it, sometimes he even leaves the fan on the whole day while he’s working. He lets the tap water flow at its fastest speed while taking his own sweet time shaving. He doesn’t lock the house door after coming in. …and so on. Anyway, all of those does not piss me off as much as his piss on the floor!

My goodness, I’m living with someone who is more unhygienic than my dog.

I really think this job doesn’t suit me.

(ok it’s about my job again.)

My job deals with vendors. Many times vendors cannot deliver as promised. My job includes to ‘push’ them to deliver as soon as possible.

Like usual, I did it again today, ‘pushing’ a vendor.

And it seems like there’s my company’s email server broke down. Incoming external email cannot reach me. I tried to call the account manager but couldn’t reach him. I left a message in the voicemail asking him to call me back but I didn’t receive any call.

So I thought the vendor has not delivered as promised, and was trying to avoid me. After seeking advice from a senior colleague, he encouraged me to write to the account manager’s superior to complain on the under-delivery.

So I wrote the email.

In the afternoon, I still get no response, not even from the account manager’s superior. Before the day ends, I finally reached the account manager, by SMS. He said that he has replied all my emails, and that he has delivered the promised documents to my user. Later I found out that my company’s email server is not running well, and the documents I had been chasing for was already with the user.

I was caught in an awkward position. I know how it feels being wronged by others. I feel sorry for him. I can completely understand he didn’t want to reply my call because I wrongly complained on him.

I wanted to apologise for the mistake, but someone said there’s no need for that. As the client and a bigger company, we shouldn’t apologise to vendors on this kind of petty matters – that will make them being arrogant towards our company and our company will lose its ‘face’ to the vendors.

So should I just keep quiet and do not reply anything to let it be? I as the worker of the company shouldn’t. Stop replying means I admit my mistake and company will lose ‘face’. I had to squeeze some mistakes at the account manager’s part to make him guilty.

So I replied him, blaming that he should call me back since he received my message in his voicemail. And I had to make it wordy to make it sound strong.

This is the worst day of my humanity this far. I believe there will be worse to come.

this week is so long… I felt like I have done so many things in work already yet it is still middle of week.

please be more careful, omgoodness…

another careless mistake you’re exposed, dear.