I hate favouritism (or yang sewaktu dengannya)

I really do and today I encountered one incident that really upset me and it spoiled my mood for today.

I'm working in an industry that I met with kiasu parents all the times, and sometimes they used their connection to get what they want. What irrtated me the most is that, they came to see you, and only when they did not get what they want, they started using thier connection. And we are obliged to fulfil their request.

I gave you the incident that happened to me this morning as an example. A mother came to register her daughter for our test, and upon seeing her daughter's age, I informed her that there is only 1 place availabe for the class, and immediately wanted to book the place. I told her I cannot do that as places are first come first serve basis and we have to be fair to all our customers. She did not say anything and I assumed she was ok with it.

Then, a colleague of mind called me and informed me that apparently she is a friend of a friend(who used to come here and help with our international students)& she spoke to him and asked him to ask us to book a place for her daughter. My colleague was obliged to do that for him. And this gets to me really good. I fell like this undermine our authority as a staff working here. To me, if you want someone to help you with something, do it way before you at that place, do you get what I meant? Let me put it this way, like the mother if she wants to use her connection to ensure that her daughter will get the place, she should ask our mutual friend to help her way before she comes to our office. Not after she spoke to me and when things are not what she expected, then she went and used her connection. It really get to my nerves. And that feeling stays with me until lunch time. It effects my services to other customers.

Hmmmmm, yeah I know I take my job too seriously sometimes but that is just who I am. I don't want customers to go around and say that I'm not helpful enough to them while I was trying to be fair to everybody. Sometimes, you just csnnot please these people but still I hate favouritism.

Mourning for a loss

I was in a mourning mood last night, I was so sad and at the same time consumed with guilt. I dropped our digital camera last night and it was broken :(

We just had the camera less than 1 year and now it's broken. After I inspected the level of damage of that camera, then went frantically searching for the service centre and the warranty card. All of these happened when I was in my room and Amli was downstairs. I could not find the warranty card and at first cannot find the service centre either.

Then Amli went up, I was complementing either to tell him or not. The moment he walked in the room I bursted into tears and confessed my sin to him. He just looked at me and then took the camera and inspected the damage. He did not say a word to me-which is an indication that he was mad, with capital M. He then left the room to have a shower. I felt so guilty about it all night long. Adriana upon seeing me upset went to me and hugged me( she was so sweet last night- as if she knows that I was upset, she hardly bother me at all, and did funny things to make me laugh)

After a while, I dare to face Amli and he was ok with it-finally. He told me to call up the service centre and checked either they can repair it and how much will it will cost, but since I was the one that broke it, I have to do all the dirty work and of course pay for the services...sigh..there goes my Thomas Sabo..isk!isk!isk!:(

Blogger Block

I'm having blogger block for like a long time. I have nothing to write, well maybe because nothing interesting happened to me lately.

Life have been normal(alhamdullilah),no sick kids for the past weeks. No extra-ordinary activities except for the part that I'm applying for a new job at my old company(do you think it's wise??). Current work is becoming more and more unbearable, how do you feel working for the same things for the past 5 years? Saying exactly the same things over and over and over for 1,825 days, the only different is the fees(which keep on increasing year after year). Do I suffer in silence? of course no, I told my management about this but still here I am, what happened to creating opportunity worldwide and equal opportunity that the management keep on telling you over and over again. Unfortunately, it's only in the paper.

Still..I have nothing to write........