職場記趣?

職位A空缺了兩個月,三日前終於來了新同事,先叫她同事N。整team人手一直緊張,招聘成功對大家來說都是莫大喜訊。我簡直由地獄跳回人間,不用再接手職位A的workload,burden減半,回復正常了!

三天後,她居然辭職。

她給我看一下resignation letter,說突然收到了比這裡人工高的offer,抱歉要把交托給她的一切奉還。

一個epic的職場記趣,我的感想:

  1. 幾好笑,2:00pm告訴大家,5:00pm閃人,世上無奇不有。Well,其實也太兒戲和不負責任了。剛剛通知了所有人f10n1的temporary 職務with immediate effect 由同事N接手,現在要逐一recall。大家還花了三天時間耐心向她介紹,白白浪費了各位的精力。
  2. 她離開後大家也在品評她的言行舉動:用字、行為、語氣,通通不放過。辦公室文化,原來連每選一字都可能很determining。慎言呀慎言。
  3. 回復OT mode,接受生活的ups and downs la …. (天音:你d OT算得係meh…=.=)

Quiet?

“In your head too much”, a phrase that is often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.
Of course, there is another word for such people: thinkers.

看”Quiet“的時候,有以下這個小小questionnaire。
你是一個introvert嗎? 1-20 你有多少個true?

hi

我拿到17/20。其中有幾個我agree到想bold左個true, especially “I often prefer to express myself in writing”. 有幾個卻不太肯定。For example,

– I often let calls go through to voice mail?
My initial answer is “no”.
At work, I enjoy answering phone calls. I won’t let them ring more than twice.
But in life, I never answer my calls…..it’s always a list of red “missed” calls in my phone record.
Two extremes.

– “Soft spoken” and “mellow”?
It really depends who I am talking to..or my mood.

– I don’t enjoy multitasking?
I do and I don’t. Again depends la..haha.

I was accustomed to fighting my inertia in order to conform to social norms. 但上班後我發現,我已經不用再“fight”。As long as its within working hours (i.e. when I am paid haha), I could temporarily erase my multiple traits of introversion, and transform into an extrovert. Running back and forth between the North and South of Temperament every single weekday, but not exhausted by it at all. This is how an introvert survives in a world that celebrates extroversion.

職場記趣 (半年Archive)

物業管理半年,聽電話是骨幹工作。有趣工作點滴archive,go!

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生菜
(新年舞獅在即)
客:請問生菜係邊度買?
f:-________-………街市?

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上腦
(師兄在旗下物業工作,一起食lunch)
f:你係18樓定19樓做野?
兄:19呀
f:19呀。。(靈機一觸)你地個層個男廁仲整緊bor。

(dead silence)
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近照
(管理員突然打來,語氣有點尷尬)
Sir:我有d野想問你
f:係?
Sir:我見到有一個好似你既人
f:係?
Sir:你媽媽係咪同廣播界有關係?係報紙見到你。。
f:ehhhh 係呀,千其唔好講呀你知我知好啦下!
Sir:你有個爸爸,有個媽媽,同有個哥哥!
f:………….

(that’s why 我好抗拒放近照係報紙-。-不過畢業相就算)
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錯(1)
(某員工多次做錯,在電話帶點怒氣“提點”他後,他寄來的email)
I am very sorry…….I am getting very old…I always make mistakes….I shall retire…I am sorry…..

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錯(2)
同事: hai~我做事,你放心wor!交比我啦!(拍saai心口)
(誰知第二日發現真係laai 野=_=)

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我叫美聯
“喂你好,唔該Joanna?”
“我係f10n1..”
“你好呀F1onMi !! 我叫美聯呀! 我意思係我叫Daisy..”

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筆直
經紀(舉手示意):「好奇妙,呢棟樓好似一支鉛筆咁直!」

(唔係直既我就驚啦)

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那些年
與中年男客人認真討論工事,
對方褲袋突然傳來「那些年錯過的大雨。。」的音樂鈴聲。

(忍笑忍得好辛苦--)

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探子
最近做探子,打聽各地產商報價
me: “喂,唔該我想要around 4,000尺既office,有無得租?“
”有,12樓同14樓,你地係咩公司?“
me: ”哦,咁請問個單位係幾多號number?”
“你要number黎做乜?? 你有stacking plan咩??”
me: ”我老闆想知個number…”
(oh =.= 穿煲…普通人唔會知咩係stacking plan…..
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執
辛辛苦苦dup好份excel analysis,print出黎比老闆過目。
me: “呢個公司呢,執左架啦。“
boss+sec 驚呼: “下?!呢間公司執左?!”XDDD
我意思係執好d tables架啦 -_- lol

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Sort
老闆竟然幫我依次序sort好唒d reports..
我意外地對老闆說:「下?!你sort咗呀?!」

Spring 2013 Bookshelf

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Can’t believe it’s already Q2 2013..time flies.
Got squeezed enough…time to soak up!

  1. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
    Started by introducing the famous H.M. case and the rat T-maze experiment. Shame that I didn’t take 9.00 intro to psycho at last because of of schedule conflict every semester.
     
  2. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Book – Susan Cain
    A great title!! Nope I haven’t even flipped it yet (on iPad).
     
  3.  Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead – Sheryl Sandberg
    Yes “sample” only, read through the intro and Chapter 1. I almost bought it right away when I saw its review everywhere, “book of the month” and, of course, it’s written by Sheryl Sandberg! With all due respect, I like it but not as attractive as I thought.
    Too generalized but narrow in scope: The motivation of the book is that, because of social and internal barrier, women tend to “hold back”, “”stay back”, that we are “not aggressive enough to acquire power”. We all therefore should revolutionarily “lean in”. Don’t think all women in the world aim to “acquire power” in workplace to reach the C-Suite like her. And I disagree the stereotype made in the book that men=outspoken, powerful, ambitious while women generally represent the opposite. For this reason this book didn’t click on me.

    Too polarized: The whole book first segmented the world into men and women, ok fine, then it’s simply a feminist manifesto. Everything is in “she”, “her”, “”herself”, not sure how a guy will feel when reading it. Anyway, appropriate, kind of expecting this haha.