Saturday, June 30, 2007

GSS damage :
4 shirts (office wear)
1 black pencil skirt
1 black pleated skirt
1 pair of charles & keith wedges (9cm tall)

My excuse -- need new clothes for my new work place as there is NO dress-down fridays. Need to look presentable and professional at all times. And there is a "no skirt shorter than 2-fingers -width above the knee " rule. And hair style is limited to pan-asian colours only, which mean no blond, blue, red, purple. And no open toe shoes if you are at the clinics

Notice most of our colleagues wear neutral colours (black, white , dark blue) most of the time, and my fellow colleagues, also newbies suggest we start revolution by wearing bright colours. and wear half-covered heels (cover toes only, the heels are exposed) If boss tell us off, then we stop.
And our boss, though is a man, is quite a sharp person. Overhead him once commenting to another colleague : "wa your shoes very bright ". On another occasion, i passed him the documents, using my own binder clips. Though I did not indicate that to him, the next day he passed back the clips to me , knowing that these are not from the office common stationery stock. As what my colleague commented:"Boss very sharp, dun beh-ley arh"


However, i think i have not been a good gal so far. In fact i have been "testing the water " by doing the follows:

1. wearing open-toes heels on many occasions. but i do switch to the pair of covered flats (kept under my desk) when i reached office.
2. listening to radio . Din see my neighbours listening to music, but then din heard of any rules saying no listening to music.
3. logging on to msn. So far when boss came to my desk, i was not msning, but the short cut icon on the toolbar is clearly visible.
4. Wore a bright yellow top on the day where my colleague wore a bright pink top. Very glaring to the eyes
5. Painted my nails and still doing nail art with gold glitter and shiny sticker. On a few occasions, saw my boss glanced at them but he din comment anything abt it.

Guess as long as i did my work, he can "close one eye" on the above matters.

人家说：伴君如伴虎. For my colleagues and I, we are "伴狮", as our boss is a leo. Though he does joke with us at times, he is VERY serious when it comes to work and that look on his face is really terrifying. We also pre-empt each other when we see that he is not in a good mood, especially when we have bad news to report to him.

Friday 29 June was not a good day. In the morning, I had to braced myself to meet up with a doctor, to introduce myself (i dun like to meet these professionals, as i dunno how to interact with them).

Just a bit of history -- my boss mentioned abt how the difference btw a grade A-performer and a B-performer for my post . Even when he person could have just email the doctors to ask for articles, he said he will meet up with the doctors for the first time to do a self-introduction, so that people will have an idea of who you are. He also added that my predecessor did not do that, even though she has lot of time.

Boss say until like that, of cos u have to do it right. i spend some time drafting the email (and SOS to my friends for help over msn) and after days, one of the doc gave a curt reply of " u can see me at 9am this friday"

Turned out tha the doc is a snob. Felt demeaned after the session. Not going to get into details on what happened , the "highlights " are

1) Instead of the usual introduction, i tot he too will gave a brief intro of himself, wat he did , yet his first words to me are:

"you know arh... here.. people come and go. So u have to get use to the thing that people here dun spend much time with you... u know... what for?"

Kaoz. Implying that I am wasting his time lah. He din speak clearly ,also waste my time to catch what he was trying to say.

2) Stop me when i was abt to leave and said " u know arh. by meeting you, it seems that you are giving me work. Where u should me helping me with less work".

Wah Kaoz! I dun report to him ok. BTW, it was under his chief's instructions that the docs are scheduled to contribute articles to the new letters. My job is just to remind them to submit the articles. I had done my part and if he din submit, it will be his fault, not mines.

Anyway,I directly told my boss that the meeting did not went well and we might not have articles to contribute for this month. Thankfully he was quite understanding on that and not to take the doc's comments personally. Have to treat this as learning experience and have to be thick-skinned when dealing with these type of docs.

I definitely dun look forward to meeting 2 docs every month. Was telling my friends perhaps i should make a list on the percentage of doc who are nice over those who are snobbish.

Actually I was not wounded by the doc's attitude, after all, having encountered with verbal abuse from ex-colleague (refer to my older blog posting), what can be worse than that.

In the afternoon, received notice that the gal who is due to join us on the coming monday had called to revoke her contract as she got another offer. Boss was quite pissed off with this irresponsible attitude, even the HR was pissed off too. As for me, having to rush to get everything ready for her, I was also "sian" by this outcome. Everyone was expecting her to join us on Monday,-- my fellow colleague being assigned as her "buddy" worried abt not being a good buddy as she is also quite new, and last week, boss even instructed me to include her as our lunch khakis as she will be station in another office,.

Due to her absence, I will be involve in helping out with some of the jobs which are intended for her. Wonder is this is good or bad.

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