Dear Diary,
Last THURSDAY marked the end of my first month work.
I think i won by luck and my honesty = to stupidity.
But then I realise that there's nothing bad about it...
BECAUSE
It's the first time i felt that work is so interesting!
Not workload, BUT the people i met.
Working as a secretary, acting as a PA and doing adminstrative work wasn't a difficult task. ALL I need is the effort to learn and SUPER good Memory.
WHY?
Here comes the interesting part no. 1...
The ex-secretary who worked at the firm for 5 years, for some reason decided to quit and left. 1 week is all i have, to learn what she has been doing for 5 years.
Because I was a newbie, everything is followed up by the ex-secretary before i join. There are several occasions whereby boss had to call her up regarding the cases that she followed up with.
"Hi there, sorry to trouble you, but regarding the client name blah blah blah, what was the status when you followed 4 MONTHS ago? or Which documents and the folders do you scanned to?" etc etc...
4 months isn't a very long period of time. But my boss has a 'LONG list of clients and the workload is REPETITIVE, everyday we handle more than one client's documents and other adminstartive work too.
I'm so amazed with the ex-secretary when she's able to direct my boss to find the documents over the phone.
I was thinking: " Hell! so many months ago!".
I bet oneday, the same situation will happen to me.
I love chatting with my boss because she's experienced in many ways.
It's just like gaining knowledge...
Many things cannot be explained in scientific way.
One of it would be fortune telling; its either you believe it or not.
And here comes the interesting part no. 2...
One day, she told me that my name wasn't very auspicious, in fact it will harm me in many ways.
If i'm not wrong, according to the chinese characters, age 1- 20 is determined by the surname, age 20 - 50 is determined by the middle character and age 50 - 70 is determined by last character.
A Master said that '燕' is not a good word for name as it has knifes at both sides and fire at the bottom. So when people call me '燕婷', it will reflect badly on me and as time goes by... Consequences/possibilities that I might have a chance encountering with backstabbers, consistent quarrels/fight with spouse and contacting with a major illness.
I was like: "Woah".
Thats probably might be the reasons to why artists changed their orginal names.
Anyway, my boss and coworkers believed in this theory, so in order not to cause any harm to me they decided to address me by my english name which i always omit people to do me.
Not only that, when I intro myself to other people, i started using that name too!
Weird huh...
To be specify, my workplace consist of many firms and i'm just in one of it.
Each firm has its own managers and we are TOTALLY not related.
Here comes interesting part 3
Girls have a habit in office, and its non other than wearing slippers/flipflop walking here and there.
SERIOUSLY! wearing covertoes shoes make the feet stinks.To prevent me from getting HK foot, I wore it too.
BUT, there are times which i forget to change back when i left the office.
One fine day, I happened to realise that I wore slippers out to get lunch, but then I was already halfway to my destination. I thought:" Aiya, nvm la, no one will realise it."
Bought lunch while waiting for the lift, I saw one of the manager who is working on the same floor. I was new, so she doesn't know who i am. She smiled to me, and i smiled back too!
We got into the same lift (since we r going to the same floor).
We made eye contacts. (i knew whats going to happened.)She scrutinize me from head to toes and then back to head again. She smiled at me AGAIN and asked: "oh, you are going to the same floor too?"
SMILED AGAIN.
(exaggeratingly would be like superglued smile?)
I think it was probably the next few days, my boss randomly told me:
" Don't wear slipper out because there are incidents that where people got complained."
"Ooohhh" appeared in my mind at the instant.
I think i found a good superior.
She's nice, patient and she help me out in my work even though she's the boss.
Nothing offensive, I mean I like her.
Here comes interesting part 4...
I make sure all the time to have eye contact with her because i feel that its a form of respect.
By having eye contact everytime trains me to have a habit.
To listen while looking at the expressions.It's really a habit because it became a voluntarily act that I didn't start to notice until I realised the tone and the expression don't match.
(like having a irritated face but speaking with a calm voice?)
I realised she is using the same tone to talk to everyone, even to strangers. But sometimes, the expression diffs, till the point i feel that it's weird to have them linked up. I start to wonder what actually is she thinking.
We will have casual talks during lunch. I felt beneficial as she enlighten me about certain stuffs. Sometimes though the chats i start to wonder if she's is hinting me something or just using it as an example. Anyway, i do take note of these trivial matters, TRY not to repeat of the things she doesn't like.
Even meeting up with friends, this habit of mine still surfaced. I start to understand and figured out whether what i had said is really what they wanted to listen or not.
Actually i feel it's not a bad habit ....
Work is repetitive, sometimes is boring, BUT time past really fast! Probably because I like this job. Everything as a whole is thumb up!
I'm back to my comfort zone once again...
loves,
yangting :)