F**k

I had a very strong emotion today. At lunch time, well, before 'my' lunchtime, which was 1pm - 2pm, things were so bad that I felt like just standing up out of my chair, grabbing my bag, and going home, never to return. I was severely pissed off. Really pissed off. F**king pissed off. That was how I was for about 5 mins. Then an email came to say that training has been cancelled for this afternoon, and then suddenly I was feeling alright. I even took 1 hour lunch today, unlike yesterday where I took half hour...

Why did I get pissed? I'm not one to get pissed off at nothing. It was because all morning, orders came down from 4 different people, and each were about an inch thick, I'm not kidding. And they say that they had to go today. Like urgent. And then by lunch time, couriers were delivering packages and I couldn't do my work, since ALL THE PEOPLE WERE AT LUNCH! I couldn't even answer the phone. It was going crazy, and I thought... why the hell am I the only one suffering? This is totally f**ked up. And then my ex-supervisor tells me that he doesn't wanna deal with my part of the warehouse, yet he still f**ks around with my database, because some girl is going to melb tomorrow and needs the goods. So he can say whatever he likes, but he's pretty useless. Delegates his job to practically anybody who he sees isn't 'busy'. And he says that he's willing to help print labels if I'm too busy. He's done mistakes before when he printed labels, and I'm not willing to take a chance with him at the helm of my computer. When my colleague was away, he did several things wrong, but wouldn't own up to his mistake. The evidence is right there, but he would blame it on something or errors on the computer. He is very very useless. My supervisor is much better, he wouldn't deal with the part my ex-super does, even if there wasn't anybody there. He'll leave it for whoever will do it, because he doesn't understand it, and therefore doesn't wanna f**k things up worse by meddling around. But the ex-super feels like he should be doing shit that doesn't concern him. Anyways... with the urge to leave the company subdued... I processed the orders to the best of my abilities... still ended up with about 2 inches thick worth of paperwork. Thats why I OT 2.5 hours tonight, to process the orders. The end result is around 1.5 inches thick left of paperwork. The expanded/processed paperwork was over 5 inches thick, because of the labels created... That should keep the buggers happy in the morning. :P

Anyways... sleep is good. Nites.

Shattered...

I took some time to talk to the HR/finance guy... he said that casuals don't get Leave. -_- So what was that on our payslips? An Error. ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

Today, had to go to 'class'. For the Oracle training. Except that the lady didn't have everything set up, and alot of the stuff was... stuffed. Meaning that by 4pm people had wandered away from the class and back to work... And I had to leave twice, to handle the couriers... talk about it being sucky...

Tomorrow will be the same, more classes, then 1 day of normality, then Friday is class. Then saturday is... stock take. -_- No long weekend... *sigh*. More $$, but no leave. That's life. I wish I can just leave and fu*k them up. They obviously don't want any good permenant staff... Me and my colleage wanna just leave for 3 days, and see how they like that, in their face. Since we're casual, they don't get any warning. And the replacements are screwed, since they wouldn't know jack. Yay. :P

I'm a being... slowly but surely...

I haven't got a personal email address in my company yet. But the good thing is that I now have Annual Leave and Sick Leave. Glorious, isn't it? I have about 2 weeks of Annual Leave and 4 days of Sick Leave. This was for 1 year of non-stop working. Wow. Strange thing is, my colleage, who only worked 2 days and 3 weeks more than me, has an extra 4 days sick leave. Don't know how much Annual Leave he has, didn't bother checking with him... Now, when I got a personal email address at work... it means I'm a human being. I sure hope so :P But its nice that I can take days off now :P (Not that I intend to...)

Today was a bloody hot day... news said it was the hottest April day, Ever. They don't even have any comparison to how hot it was. It truly felt like summer was upon us. Lucky I wore short sleeved t-shirt. I always do, its just habit. If it gets really cool or cold, I wear a light jacket. But yeah, we had the fan going at one stage, it was that hot.

Tomorrow I go for lessons. In the new Oracle system they are implementing. Fun? 3 hours x 3 days... lucky I didn't have to do 3 hours x 14 days. If so nobody will be sending anything.

On Saturday (or was it Sun?) I watched all the last episodes of Mai-Hime. Its not bad at all... I think I should start watching Samurai Champloo Season 2... But I guess I've been too tired to watch anime that I have not 100% interest. I watched Mahou Sensei Negima, and Bleach, and now Ichigo 100% religiously... hmmm :P

Also, been watching the first couple of episodes of the new Doctor Who. I've not seen the previous Dr. Who(s), but its interesting, nevertheless.

And Sleep is always good. I need sleep. Work, no matter how busy or quiet, is still hard. Strange how I don't mind work now... before I never worked in uni or high school... :P

Funny stuff

This guy cracks me up... seriously I've not had a good laugh for a while before reading this... but one of the teachers in there sounds like somebody I know... (in some way...)

Unappreciated... >_<

Its been a day since the big boss left. There was a email thanking everybody involved, and they named those who helped. And me and my colleague's name WASN'T ON IT. !!!! What the? The other casual, John, has his name in the list, even though he helped out just as much as we did. I guess its favouritism. (Plus he worked at the same company as the managing director previously... almost 50% of the staff now came from the other company...) Needless to say, I feel pretty crap. They don't really wanna admit that there's other people who wasn't from their background.

Anyways, the party on the 5th April was a big success. I got to use a walkie talkie to direct traffic, but it was more fun when we were able to hear other people's conversations that were on the same frequency... But what was even funnier was that the supervisor played a trick from us. We were there on the driveway, when he goes 'what you guys doing' and we were like... err what u told us to do. And then a taxi drove by me and I moved out of the way, and he goes 'oh that was quick moving ken...' And then we go... huh where are you? Looking around... And he goes 'behind the tree'... we both look around at the tree... 'no, behind the other tree'... There wasn't another tree nearby... so we knew he was playing a trick on us... :P This was for 2 hours, then the press conference started at 12ish, and then question time and then lunch time at around 1:15. I was very full after lunch... lots of nice things to eat... some better than others. One of the best things were the Bacon Shimp... it had a shrimp on a skewer, and bacon wrapped around it. And a nice sauce. I had like 3 and was a little itchy, but after 3 more it was ok... :P There were other food, fish, chicken, lamb... And I had many many glasses of OJ... so yeah, definately full.

Yesterday, didn't see the CEO or other VIPs... but they left today, so it was strange there wasn't a farewell tour of the building. I guess it just isn't that important anymore.

Oh well... The food was nice... The aftertaste... well lets say, if no more appreciation, I guess I can't be stuffed helping them, since they won't be saying thanks. They probably don't even realise that I exist. All they know is that $$ is coming out of their accounts and into mine, and I guess for now thats what I can be thankful for. If I find a better job, its time to leave, no strings attached.

Head Honcho

Well the big boss is here, on a tour of most S.E Asia offices. This was a busy-yet-not-so-busy day. Half of the morning was dedicated to cleaning up. Then the other half was... cleaning up. Till it was clean. Then, orders were processed, whatever meagre amounts there were. Then the big boss came just after lunch, at around 1:30pm. The company meeting was at 2:30, except it was delayed for about 10 mins or so. And then we had this meeting with the man himself, the CEO of our company. It was very short. And there was some Q&A. The most memorable event out of that meeting was that he mentioned about his family. He has two daughters, ages 25 and 23, and one son, aged 10. Like... thats just funny... :P Me and my colleague was joking about how his eyes just went ()_() because of hearing that. :P And then some office lady came by and also started to rub it in to him. Except that I know that he likes his current gf very much, so it was just joking with him. He's the kind that can actually take a joke and then try to put the joke on you. Lucky he didn't put the joke on me... since I'm just good :P

The afternoon was pretty boring, no orders, so I was sorting out paperwork for the last couple days. Then before we were to go, it was 5:30, and we were closing all the gates, then they wanted some people to move some merchandise outside (into a big marquee (tent-like thing) that they were building all day after 10am. - and guarded by security guards at night...). So I did that with my colleague. Heavy lifting is required because we are warehouse staff. So thats what I did. I lifted a huge unit by myself... And the guy in the marquee goes "hey you don't need to go to gym if you do this all the time eh". Hehe I think if I did this for a living, I would get more than $40 an hour. Cos heavy lifting is... heavy. So there's 1/2 hour of OT for today. Tomorrow I might get to be the car park attendant. With a walkie talkie. Hmmmm :P Better to rest early today.

Breaking my PBOT

Personal Best of Over Time = 9 hours. w00t!!! Thats almost 2 days of real work. All done in one day. 7am start, 12-12:30 lunch (company paid for pizza), 4:30 finish. We sure cleaned up a lot of junk, and needless to say, the place should be sparkling when the CEO comes next monday - wednesday.

I didn't have to prepare orders today, so I helped move stuff around with the forklifts. They ran out of nails, so I had to go to the nearest Bunnings on Parramatta Rd and got them. Felt like an errand boy actually... and they didn't compensate me for the fuel... with it at $1.03 a litre, I think I used a little bit for that trip. Its ok, the lunch made up for it. Nails was $4.03 for a small packet... I drove 3 km just for a packet of nails... *sigh*. Anyways, for the lunch, out of 4 pizzas, I had about 8 slices and 4 pieces of garlic bread. Yum~ It was great to have fresh fluffy pizza, instead of soggy reheated ones. If we had to buy our own lunch today, I would've actually gone to Subways... I am hankering for sandwiches actually, I dunno why. KFC is also good, compared to maccas. Or we could've gone to get some Kebabs in Newington.

In the afternoon, it was getting slightly warm. And then when we were to go home, we found out that we had padlocked the front driveway with a metal chain so the public won't use our parking lot. That didn't deter the people who drove up on the grass. I told my supervisor that they should consider building a fence, because its just stupid. He agrees, it looks like a dodgy car yard. We're meant to be a technology kind of company, yet we got idiots who want to save parking fees and park in some company's carpark. Well, tough luck, I think it will change soon. We might even charge them entrance and exit fees actually. That'll be a way to earn $$. Seriously, how would you feel if you were to come home on a saturday and find somebody else has parked in your garage? You wouldn't be happy, would you? Thats how we feel about it too. So it was funny when we were trying to leave because the gate was still padlocked and 3 cars were waiting to get out... At the end, we had to call the supervisor to let us out... They should implement a boom-gate system... and have an intercom to reception or warehouse.

Lightscribe...

Wow. Finally, a technology that I wished I have. Why? Because it simply is cool.

http://www.lightscribe.com/about.aspx

It basically allows you to 'burn' images onto the label side. Previously, you have to use a program to design the label, and then print it or stick it onto the CD/DVD. Now you can burn the image on the DVD. Literally. So, you burn the data, flip the CD/DVD upside down, and burn the image. Its really cool! No more messy looking penmanship, its graphics all the way baby :P