Listening to Khalil on my pinkie (the ipod shuffle, not my little finger), twidling my thumbs, wondering what else to do today.
Was out sick on Monday and Tuesday. Came back yesterday and cleared all backlog (if you could even call it that) within 1 hour. then i changed 1 air-ticket, changed 1 taxi booking, made new hotel reservation, cancelled crap hotel booking, sent one expense form to london for approval, checked penalty for changing date of another air ticket, booked taxis for another trip, set up 2 meetings, booked venues and people's schedules.... yikes, started twidling thumbs at 11am. looked forward to sushi lunch. came back to more thumb exercise after lunch. i was trying so hard not to fall asleep. AND my thumbs are so SORE from all that twidling.
my only consolation = pay per hour of real work must be hitting the roof. my pay per hour at work is already quite high compared to the horrible workaholic husband of mine. his pay is quite neglible lor; i earn so much in comparison. =) feels better thinking of it this way.
i'm sure the guinness people have a category for the fastest twidling thumbs, or most sore thumbs from all the twidling, or longest "chao geng" (read: pretending to be busy) exercise, or longest procrastination on how to word an email so that i have something to do and can look busy, or shortest actual work hours on small island in atlantic ocean!
conclusion is this, either i'm under-utilised [do they really need one person to do ALL THIS WORK?!], or i'm really overly efficient [i can live with this]. did you guys read about Singapore civil servants being the most efficient in all asia? [oh yeah! i'm still on their payroll so i qualify.] and in the next breath, the same survey says we are the most unhelpful when things go wrong. [how true, how true. protect thy backs comrades! back to back now...] oh, and blast them for not giving a mid-year bonus this time. [boo! no more cash injection into the economy (more notably the charles' and the keiths' coffers) during the summer...] this summer's GSS will not be the same without the civil servants (and their heavily arrowed backs).... =)
Was out sick on Monday and Tuesday. Came back yesterday and cleared all backlog (if you could even call it that) within 1 hour. then i changed 1 air-ticket, changed 1 taxi booking, made new hotel reservation, cancelled crap hotel booking, sent one expense form to london for approval, checked penalty for changing date of another air ticket, booked taxis for another trip, set up 2 meetings, booked venues and people's schedules.... yikes, started twidling thumbs at 11am. looked forward to sushi lunch. came back to more thumb exercise after lunch. i was trying so hard not to fall asleep. AND my thumbs are so SORE from all that twidling.
my only consolation = pay per hour of real work must be hitting the roof. my pay per hour at work is already quite high compared to the horrible workaholic husband of mine. his pay is quite neglible lor; i earn so much in comparison. =) feels better thinking of it this way.
i'm sure the guinness people have a category for the fastest twidling thumbs, or most sore thumbs from all the twidling, or longest "chao geng" (read: pretending to be busy) exercise, or longest procrastination on how to word an email so that i have something to do and can look busy, or shortest actual work hours on small island in atlantic ocean!
conclusion is this, either i'm under-utilised [do they really need one person to do ALL THIS WORK?!], or i'm really overly efficient [i can live with this]. did you guys read about Singapore civil servants being the most efficient in all asia? [oh yeah! i'm still on their payroll so i qualify.] and in the next breath, the same survey says we are the most unhelpful when things go wrong. [how true, how true. protect thy backs comrades! back to back now...] oh, and blast them for not giving a mid-year bonus this time. [boo! no more cash injection into the economy (more notably the charles' and the keiths' coffers) during the summer...] this summer's GSS will not be the same without the civil servants (and their heavily arrowed backs).... =)
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