True story below.

When I first found out my current rotation I was undeniably angry and disappointed but yet sort of resigned to the fact as I have always knew I had to do an operations rotation. Nevertheless, as I was also angry at the first suggestion of Customer Service, I guess this was not too bad. Though I had previously stated the pros and cons of working in this new area, rest assured I was leaning heavily towards the cons.

Now, however I have a different song to sing. Although not really interested at first, I got into the thick of things and started to actually do work there. Much as it has been warned me to not get into the daily work as it will be boring and keeps me tied down to a factory job, I still did it. Happily for two weeks, on the outside at least. I complained a lot to many people I know. Why two weeks ? Well, for two weeks, the manager of the unit was on leave, so I could hardly be expected to have a long talk about my issues now could I ?

Blessing in disguise. In the two weeks that he was gone, I had a place to sit at. And concentrate on my work. And prospered. By the time my manager came back, I had a glowing report (as a fast learner and hard worker) as well as more time to formulate my plan of attack. Some carefully worded e-mails to some people in power got me some insurance for a drastic attack I was planning. Well, basically I sort of tricked them into giving me powers over what I was going to do. But luckily, I did not even have to resort to my arsenal.

My manager had a talk with me last night about things he wanted me to do. I could not have planned it better. Now I only have half a day's work and the rest of the day I had to improve the ways things were done there. Fantastic. I had already reduced one person's daily work to two hours anyway (that is why someone is going to be leaving in 2 weeks, not really my fault, they are not efficient enough..). And better yet, hopefully I can reduce it still further !

As my current job required lots of Excel, I have learnt so much Excel in the past 2 weeks just by using it. Funny. And another funny part was I still remember how much I hated programming in university, and yet now I am so into writing macros to speed up my processes. Also as many of the staff here are Malay, I have to speak Malay a lot too. I got used to it very fast. Amazing how it speaking a language can be like riding a bike sometimes. Comfortable. Funny how life goes. I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes, the best thing to do is to make the best out of what you are given. You never know what you can make out of it. And is that not just as exciting ? What is life after all, but a big journey ? We are better people for walking to places we did not plan to sometimes.

I am in my happy place again. Especially as I was just randomly asking some of my new colleagues, how come I had no problem fitting in ? This was because some others from other departments were complaining about their managers and colleagues....

"Because you are so adorable and friendly.....~" was the reply from someone I am not really close to. Wah. Flattered. And happy of course. Funny what words can do to you right ? I guess one thing I like to do is to find out new things about new people and I am proud to say I have been liked (well as far as I know anyway) in all the departments that I have been in ? It can be quite important to me because as much as I say that we should be more aggressive in life and move forward without caring too much about what people think about us, I do care. And I would much rather climb to the top with people's well wishes than curses.

Here is to the future.

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