Really bad day at work

Perhaps I shouldn't be complaining. It's just that some people are really getting on my nerves.

I had this office chair that was broken. The axis in the middle was jutting out from its frame and as a result, it scraped the carpet beneath whenever I moved around while sitting on it. This created a hairy (I beg your pardon ladies) vagina in the carpet and I was sexually astonished to notice the artificial human organ after some time. I've always thought that something got stuck in the wheels which made the chair hard to move about, but it wasn't so.




My colleagues must be well aware that the chair was faulty because I was complaining day in and out about it. Even the other chairs that were unoccupied had problems of their own: One of them macham like a rocking chair, the other extends vertically upwards when I have already adjusted it to its lowest, or worst, being creaky to the point of being intolerable. I totally can't stand working on such chairs.

Louis, being the helpful guy, witnessed my long-lived agony, and finally decided to trouble our maintenance guy by requesting for a new chair from him. This other colleague of mine overheard our loud conversation and she obviously knew I was getting a new chair. Let's call her Miss L.



Yes that's the state it's in now. So I took the unoccupied chair which likes to keep erecting, while waiting for my new one.

Today after emerging from a long meeting, I was walking back with Miss L to our seats when she suddenly exclaimed:

"Wa! New chair ah!"

So I told her the chair is mine, and I was about to swap it with Erectus when she grabbed hold of it and didn't wanted to let go.

I said: "What's wrong with you?"

"Who said the new chair is yours?" she retorted.

"Eh hello my chair is already broken, and I had to temporarily use Erectus leh."

This time, my boss came around and questioned what was the din about. Miss L kept saying that I have a new chair and she didn't wanted me to have it. I had to shout out loud that I requested for it and it's rightfully mine! And you know what she did? She stuck out her tongue at me!

For your info she just turned 33.

Blood boil at 200 degrees Celsius. Never mind, I chose to ignore her and started reading my new mails. I didn't even notice that she was going home for the day. Then I saw my web vendor's mail.

Alamak, it's going to be very hard to explain here but I can tell you, they are really brainless, and they are foreigners. I'm not saying that Singaporeans are smart but I knew many from their country who are really good programmers.

First of all, the project done by them did not meet my company's standards. Even when I tried to convince them to change some parts during the User Acceptance Test (UAT), they said it's not possible to make amendments as it's going to take up more time and manpower. Fine, I had to make do with what lousy suggestions they gave. In the end, I spot backend errors every single week, which all these shouldn't have happened!

All because their work quality is really slipshod. Very simple things which you would've expected them to anticipate beforehand, and do up the preventive measures, are not even implemented! That caused a whole load of trouble when I started to test the system further. You can say that I should have borrowed an eagle's eye while doing the testing but I can tell you, even my boss also feels that they are very unprofessional, as they do not bother about the small things, especially the English phrases found in the website!

And they charge exhorbitantly for any amendments that I request. Ok, it's partially our fault for omitting one small function (just to hide/unhide a button when we need it), but it costs $500, which is 1/4 of a whole project of $2000. Don't you think it's ridiculous?

I just feel that it's my bad luck after all. When I just came into this company, the website revamp had already been approved by an ex-staff who didn't had any prior IT knowledge. In the end, I had to fix all the loose ends that she committed. So much so that I did not have any authorizing power to ask the vendors to amend the many mistakes I found. In the end, the whole revamp to the original revamp dragged for almost a year, and new problems surface every week.

I'm almost giving up on the web vendor. Tomorrow I will try to contact their CEO for a good talk, regarding the working attitude of his staff. This has to come to an end, or else I'll be unable to concentrate on my upcoming data migration task.