But it had happened before that me and this other dude needed to use it in the same period of time for different projects. My boss came up with this fabulous idea of having one of us working another shift. Since the other dude has 3 kids at home, I volunteered at that time. And once you 開咗先例, every time it happens I became the automatic choice to work off hours. My boss would say things like, "Well... It just means that Olivia have to work shift." THANKS FOR ASKING FOR MY PREFERENCE!
Most of the time it's ok, cos the my projects are usually quite small and that I don't need the software for too too long. I don't really have to do the shift work, just came in a little earlier and sneak some time to use it while that guy is eating lunch or something. And really, most of the time, we can share among ourselves, each person gets a few hours everyday and it's usually sufficient.
But this time, this guy (in reality, it's only me and that guy who uses and who knows how to use the software in the company) has this big project that is totally killing him already. (well... once again, thanks to my boss who disregarded the fact that it's virtually impossible to do it in such a short period of time and the objection of that guy and agreed the deadline that the client requested, just to satisfy the client) Anyway, this guy is doing a lot of overtime already. And he has to finish before the deadline which is this friday.
And me, I just got this small project that I need to use the software. But really, there's another old software available to do the work but bcos the company hasn't paid for the maintanance plan, after I installed the software, I was unable to use it. Contacting the technical support and they told me that the company has to pay $450/3 hours support fee first. Being as cheap as the company has always been, we decided not to pay the money and decided that I should share the software with this other guy instead.
Fine. And of course, I am automatically elected to do the shift work. But one thing that my boss never really take into account is that I _DO_ have a life outside of work and that I can't just all of a sudden reverse my life schedule just to accomodate my work. For instances, the church's ESL classes new semester has just started, my regular ultimate game, + occassionally church meetings at night etc. I can't just drop everything else and work for him. So for the past week, I have been getting up at 4am to go to work for a few times. Chi ma gun. And it's not like I can get off work early either. This is something else that my boss never takes into account for. I have other work to do also.
It's not like I can do these things during off hours. For example, this pain-in-the-ass client have been contacting me this whole week and I have to reponse to his request pretty much right the way. So during those hours that I don't get to use that software, I work on other stuff. And of course, more than one old work came back to me at this appropriate time as if I have nothing else to do.
Another thing that upsets me was that on Tue, I didn't go in early cos I could not go to bed early the night b4 bcos of ESL class. So, I planned to stay late so that I would work after the guy went home. And then at around 7pm, he came back to the office after having dinner at home and asked me to hand over the license. WTF man... I know that u have the super tight deadline and that your client is much bigger than my client. But y do u always have priority before me? Also, you know that I'm working around ur schedule. Can't you have the courtesy to let me know that you were coming back to work so that I can adjust my work plan accordingly? Nice communication skills, man!
Speaking of scheduling, I remember another incident. So I went in early on Monday. When I got to the office, I found that the stupid license is not there. He brought it home over the weekend! I mean, I appreciate the fact that he worked so hard but he had clearly told me b4 that he never takes the license home bcos he didn't want to lose it and having to be responsible for this expensive license. I was like, "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK". What was I going to do there? Sleep in the office? And then, despite the fact that it's 4:45am, I call him (luckily I found his phone number) on the server and told him that I was going to come pick up the license. Another lucky thing was that he lives super close to work (you can tell from the fact that he could go home and eat dinner and then come back to the office). But still, waste of time and gas.
Oh, forgot to explain how come I have to compete the license with him so much. Not surprisingly it's my smart boss. So he agreed on the client requested deadline for the other guys project. Ok fine. You want to make the client happy, be that way. But then he decided to schedule a meeting with my project client on the SAME freaking day. I mean, if you know that we have only once license and you know that the other project has already scheduled a meeting on that day. Why the hell did you schedule the meeting of my project on the same day??? What kind of project management is that? 好明顯係想我死者。
Well... I finally finished my work this morning, at least enough for the meeting tmr. I'm sure I will have more to do after he comes back from meeting, probably after agreeing on some other deadly deadline. And the "other" work that I have been doing was also close to finish. So I left work early today (I have been in the office since 5:45am this morning so I think leaving at 3:30pm is quite justifiable).
Also, the new office's policy makes it virtually impossible to get the 1.5 overtime pay so I won't even attempt it. It's not worth it. Even though I really need money these days, I would still rather take some time off instead. So, I'm going to stay home on Monday. Have an extra long weekend.
So what's the end results of this intensive work schedule for me since last Thursday? It means that my immune system is super weak right now since I haven't had enough sleep almost everyday. Probably averaging 6 hours per night or less. It's not helping me, especially in the allergy season. And I cut the corner of my mouth flossing the other day and now it's all infected. 腫咗一舊咁，好樣衰啦。Not that I look gd normally, but I really don't need this rotting mouth to add to my ugliness.
Also, going to work early means that I have been driving most of the week. I hate myself for it. But I have to say, traffic is so gd at 4:30 in the morning. Anyway, when I work weird hours like this, I have a very bad habbit (have been like this since UT era). I eat a lot of junk food, drink pop and coffee and keep eating and eating to stay awake. It work but this + the lack of cycling, I feel like I gain like 10pounds. Together with sitting in the office over 12 hours a day, I can totally feel that my ass is trying to double its size. Given the fact that my ass has never been a small one, the thought of it doubling it's size is a scary one. I really should start going back to the gym (haven't been to the gym for almost the whole summer, what a waste of membership fee). Maybe I''ll go on Monday during the day. I gotta stop the growth of my ass!!!
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