Wednesday, September 19, 2007
10:38 pm
Seventh day of internship:
For the past few days, I've been working on the inventory checking system and all the scrolling up and down rapidly through six Microsoft Excel files (multiply that by 30 worksheets on average for each day of the month in each file) made me extremely nauseous on yesterday and today.
When Jessie joined me today for the editing, she finally understood why I've been feeling giddy since yesterday.
I get self-deface-ish when I'm past the point of extreme lethargic-ness.
[Quote what I said to her (in Chinese)]
"I feel so giddy right now. I feel so tired right now. And I don't know whether I'm more giddy or more tired right now. Trying to make up my mind just made me even more giddy and more tired."
[/Quote]
I always managed to find ways to deface myself. I always do.
The more frustrated i get, the more ruthless I get with myself.
I'm strange like that. Then again, everyone knows that. It's a publicly known secret by now.
Anyway, before Jessie joined me with dealing with the Excel files, I helped the administration staff with documentation filing (she was terribly swamped today by all the sales person- 10 or 11 or them- while the boss wanted her to do his stuff first. Refer to previous post: the boss's words are ABSOLUTE), then checked through my Excel files (thanks to Murphy's Law, just when you think everything's checked and okayed, something will need to be edited again. Throughout every worksheet of three of the files. Thus explains Jessie editing it with me after lunch), after which I went over to the operations department on the other side of the cubicle wall to sit because one of the sales person (the boss's brother's wife. The company is a family business of sorts. The father helps in the warehouse while the mother is somewhat like the cleaner in the office. Strange, I know) needs to use a computer and there're no computers available so what do you do at times like that? Use the intern's, of course.
There was nothing to do at the operations department so while waiting for phone calls to pick up, I took down more notes and edited past inspirations I had noted down for Aki Kitsune.
Lunch came, and after that, I went over to Jessie's side so that we could work on the company improvement projects together.
But of course, there's always the boss's brother's tasks to do.
We typed out a new table of price packages for 3-bedroom HDB flats and a list of advantages of using the new product that they're adopting now for one of the sales personnel before getting to the Excel files when we got interrupted by a phone call from the boss's brother (he doth appear too many times) after a while because he wanted Jessie to help him send a quotation through his company email.
After getting that out of the way, we proceeded to stretch the time all the way to 6pm by slowing down everything we were doing on the improvement projects.
Another unproductive day.
And might I repeat, not very logistical.
I'm boring myself with the number of times I need to mention that.
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