First Day of Work

Frankly speaking, the first day of work wasnt great for me. Not that this job itself is not a good one, not that my superiors are not good, not that the job scope is stressful, not that the pay is low, its just me....

Well before anyone mistook the person in the above pic as me, no no no, this person is not me, he is Tree. I am so envious of him that he could take such a nice pic with the old temple of Poh Ern Sih. I felt the combination was near perfect, the smiling face nicely placed beside the temple building which is going to pull down very soon. Yes, heavy construction work has started taking place. Arghh. .how i wish i have a pic like tat with Poh Ern Sih, but i nv get such 'nice' effects myself.

Well back to talk about my work. I actually dun feel like writing it in my blog, but i cant find anyone appropriate to share my feelings with. Smallbro ong, who used to ask a lot on my updates is not around for the week. I thot I could just pen down my feelings here....

The workplace reminded me very much of my army camp, full of grease, oil, vehicle components etc. The workshop is just like the workshop I had 'lived' in while in the army, except the vehicles dealt here are not tanks but taxis.

I am given an office room myself, a pretty big room really, air-conditioned with a person computer and a phone set. On top of that, i am issued with stationary which comprises pens, pencils, ruler, hole puncher, staplers, calculator, erasers, scotch-tape, correction pen, lots of note pads, foolscap, paper-clips, post-it etc and a parkng lot. I nv thot a junior executive will be given such good treatments...

My main job requires me to plan and strategise the company's usage of resources. Theres a lot of plannings and proposals to make. On top of that, there are daily work and chores to take care of like supervising and taking charge the disciplines of 150 odd technicians. The worse thing shld be dealing with taxi-drivers, who often abuse their authority and 'jump channel' to complain to the maintenance engineer (which is me) instead of the immediate channels. There are also several performance indicators for me to take note of.

Of cos, i am not expected to full take charge of the above in one day, and i am very fortunate to have a superior to guide me along the way. He is an NTU grad, newly married with a 3-mth old baby girl. Besides him, I need to work very closely with technicians and foremans who do not share the same education background as me. They are mostly very experienced personnel who have served the company for more than 20 yrs. Awwww.... i wonder if i am under their charge or they are under my charged.... so far, the few foreman (uncles) i have met are very nice to me...

Not forgetting the admin ladies.. all very nice.... of cos la..

But sad to say, the day ended with an unpleasant encounter with a senior personnel. Fancy i always call myself a sensitive, alert and sharp guy... i actually failed to detect some under currents which took place in one of the conversations today.

This guy, call him Mr B. Mr B came to me and appeared to be very very nice, helpful and talked to me a lot. He kept offering me help and talked to me a lot on technical stuffs. As an engin grad, i have almost ZERO technical knowledge and experience... and i took no offence when he highlighted that to me. However, he began to slowly talk ill abt my superiors..and told me how tough it is to please them... and one by one, he pointed out to me all the negative aspect of my job.... yes i admit i was affected by quite significantly by his words, although he kept saying " i dun wanna stress u la, dun worry, i will help u".

All along, another 30yr old guy, who is under-studying to become an assistant manager, was beside me, listening to us. After Mr B left, this guy told me... walaos, cant u tell? cant u tell? It took me quite sometime before i put everything into pieces... The guy who used to run my present post has been promoted, so has another, except Mr B, who remained behind.. he must have felt threatened by all these grads . .. . stupid me, i fell for his trap.


This is only one very simple incident that I failed to detect the presence of scheming ppl around in the society. More to come definitely, but i cant help but feel myself so GREEEEEEEN in the working society .. yeah, i always thot i am smart to deal with all these, but i am wrong... jiang hai shi lao de la.. i am really too green....

I vow to be an old bird within a short time. ..