.Saturday, December 01, 2007 ; 10:15 PM -
.His Mercy is New everY mornInG.
Sigh..The neighbor is punishing her kids...again. He was screaming at the top of his lung while the mother punished him. Oh well, why can't they learn? Knowing well the mother will beat him up, he still tries to stretch her patience. And I have to sit here and endure the screaming.
People are either inconsiderate or simply oblivious of their surrounding. Don't they know every single thing one do has a definite effect on people around them. Unless one lives in a cave, there's no way one could escape affecting others by one's own action. Here they go again. Scream and scream and now the sound of beating. How come the father never say anything?
Feeling rather jaded lately. Seems like it's such a drag to speak to people after talking so much during work. Urghh,,,cant they just SHUT UP!!It's getting on my nerves!! What's with parents who can't think of other way of teaching their kids other than beating them up into a pulp?
Anyway, One of my colleague quit last Thursday. She finally decided to move on after 1 year in the "school". So on Friday, she came to have lunch with some of us. Coincidentally, the headmistress called in sick. Some of the teachers have to teach the new students. So we, the old ones, are left on our own.
It was Friday and we decided to have a longer break. Walked into the office, I was greeted by our only male teacher with really loud "comments". Basically, he said that I took such a looonnggg break. He rattled on and I decided to smile and say nothing. As expected he rattled on and on, repeating over and over again that we took such a looooonnnggg break. Urgh! Why pick on me? Then, he moved on picking on another girl who went for a break too. I guess, that girl and I seemed like an easy target for bullying. Well, I don't care.
Okay, we took much longer break than usual. It was our fault and for his information, we knew it. Well, I guess he just have to be the deputy discipline master at times.
Lunch time, we went to have lunch with an ex-colleague. The entire "class" went to have really yummy korean food near china square. Knowing well that there's no government around, we decided to stay a bit longer. Left the place at 2pm, which effectively made us 10 minutes late! Someone sms-ed that the big boss is in the office! So we rushed back to the office. Someone decided to lock us out, stuck a paper saying "You are late" and off the light. Well, no prize for guessing who was the mastermind. On the way to the loo, I bumped into the male teacher and he decided to rattle on the fact that we are too much, pushing the boundaries, etc etc. Okay whatever.
Yes, we broke the rules. We were late. If the headmistress asked me what happen, I will stand up and acknowledge that I was in the wrong for being late. For their information, I always arrived early in the morning!
Sometimes, I feel that certain things are simply ridiculous. This is not a school and we are not kids. Why are we being treated like some kind of school kids? Punishment for being late even if it's only 1 minute.
Oh well, nothing is perfect anyway. But seriously, the company need to give more benefits to its employee if they want higher retention rate. Recruiting, training, released to the sales floor, and usually the next step for many would be moving on to other company. It's like a never ending vicious cycle. If they don't review the system, many more good hardworking sales people will be lost. Oops, they HAVE lost many good sales people. I guess they simply don't care. And do you want to know the irony?
We are selling an event of sales force management that also deals with sales force retention. How do you teach other on the method in sales force management when you yourselves are no expert in it. No, not even intermediate level. The headmistress and the big boss should attend this event. Seriously.
Finally, the neighbor is done punishing her kids. Peace and quiet on earth.
new phrase learnt:
shameless but professional begging : chasing clients for payment
