Less than a week into the new job I was willing to give up any and every thing, including the "vacation" to Phuket for things to be better. The plants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Japan were all having problems. And they seem to develop new sickness every other day.
May be a year later I would look back and be glad all these created great learning opportunities for me within such a short time, just may be. For now, it is a nightmare. It does not help to have a trader who only know how to throw abuses at you, no matter how senior or experience she is. The other leg in the plant is also in turmoil. Three people have been in that leg within a month. They are overloaded as they are holding multiple slates. The first is an old "bird", forget about asking more from him. The second is a helpful young in-experienced guy, whose son is in the hospital. The third is a blunt lady whose first words to me are "what you want? I don't have time".Everyday I'm faced with either tank top or tank bottom situation. One save is only the prelude to another attack wave. A lot of time one will have to depend on luck. This happened last Friday just before I was about to call it a day. Got a call from the blunt lady. She told me there was an error in the spreadsheet. After correcting for it, the tank top situation disappeared. It seemed too good to be true so while waiting for my girl's tuition class to end today, I rechecked the working. She was right...*punch air*...saved....for now.
Things seems to be improving. Got to concentrate some energy back to my running. Next Sunday is the half marathon. I'm totally not prepared. Have not run for 2 weeks and only managed a 50min on Thursday. Ahhh... look forward to the serene view.....
