I'm queen of attention to details

assoclock:

can we just skip this whole “school” thing and go straight to the part where i have a really awesome job and spend all my time travelling and reading

Spoiler: When you start working, it’s either you have the money to travel but not have enough time, or the opposite of that, and you’d wish to go back to school when life was simple… Because YES, life in school is simple. Wait until you start working, then you will finally believe

or maybe I’m just heartbroken because I am going back to work today after my two-week vacation leave </3

I have always told other people how all of us should be ready for sudden changes in our lives. You never know when you’re gonna wake up and find that everything is different. I have always expected the ‘usual’ path of a person’s life — elementary, high school, college, and then work… But I guess God has something different for me. Never have I imagine that I would have to live an unpredicted life, not knowing what will happen in the next five years, or where I will be. I have accepted all of that, and that is why I have learned not to expect too much.

That is the reality. But sometimes, the reality that I know in my head is different from what I feel in my heart.

I know that this might be a simple thing for some people but what happened last Friday at work really shook me. They have opened up a new department and it was raining promotions at work. I didn’t expect a promotion, of course, because I only work part-time there. However, seeing some of my team mates leave made me feel a bit lonely. They became my ‘family’ at work, a place where you can’t really expect people to be concerned about you. In addition to that, they have reshuffled teams to balance the number of tenured and new employees in each team. I’m staying in my team, but it’s bittersweet to see some of them leave because of promotion, and some leave because they got transferred to other teams.

Perhaps I’m really bad at letting go.

I’m not the only one, though. Some even shed tears, and I can understand that, knowing how long they have been working with each other. It was an emotional Friday in the office, knowing that when we return on Monday, some things will never be the same again.

The only positive thing that I can see about this is that my closest friend at work got transferred to our team. :)

Pros:

She brings lots of food everyday, and she always shares them with me.
I never go hungry at work.
Did I mention food?
I’ll see a cute newborn seven months from now. I hope it’s a boy!

Cons:

Her sense of smell is suddenly strong and I can’t use my perfume anymore :(

So

The list of top performers at work for the last quarter was announced today. GUESS WHO MADE THE LIST :3

My supervisor told me last Friday that starting today (Monday), a new employee (fresh from training) will occupy the desk on my right side. My co-worker Ana used that desk before, but she had transferred to another work station. My new co-worker and teammate is a guy. I haven’t seen him yet but I know his name, so I looked him up on Facebook. He has a lot of public albums and based from what I’ve seen, he’s good-looking :3 I’m excited for work today HAHAHAHA. I can’t wait for him to ask me the usual newbie questions. He’s going to ask for help, and I will give him what he wants. Lol ang landi ko lang. :P

I had to transfer to another desk at work last Tuesday and I am now seated beside a really lazy woman. Normally, it wouldn’t bother me, but every time I’m trying to really do my best (because I like my job right now), she would tap me on the shoulder and tell me stuff like, “hey, come on take it easy, this job sucks, don’t be so diligent, I know you’re just pretending!”

It’s so annoying. If she wants to be lazy then she can do it alone. As for me, I like what I’m doing and I think she needs to stop pestering me about “taking it easy”.

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We have a chat program thingy at work that we use to communicate with each other, from business-related things like urgent reminders, notices, and notes on certain accounts, to personal chit-chats like group chats for friends, and one-on-one chat with someone you like to talk to. Although that chat program can be used for business and non-business related things, it is still covered by whatever rules and regulations we have at work. All chat logs are reviewed every week, and this is common knowledge to all employees. Today, we were given memos that we are not allowed to create personal chat rooms anymore. Attached to the email are screenshots of a personal chat room with five employees on it, and they were using foul language to make fun and spite one of our supervisors. It really sucks. The chat room privilege was one of the factors in keeping us sane and happy while working, and those five employees just had to destroy all the fun.

Now, how am I gonna pretend to ask questions to my crush?