Dainty Diva
Thursday, January 17, 2008
The 5 year review is driving most of us nuts! Being the first RI to be reviewed by HQ, i guess Ed and the other DDs are anxious about it.
I am tasked to compile the report for my department, to report on the corporate visits/events/meetings and conferences/awards our scientists received from 2003 till date. I was told of this yesterday afternoon and expected to get it done by Monday. Effectively only 2 days to do it! Half day yesterday, today, half day tomorrow (cos of DnD)and ta dah, Monday! I have to submit... hate working on such a tight deadline!
Opened almost every folder, went through all the word documents, spreadsheets till my eyes see stars... manually input everything into a table till my neck and shoulders ached... stayed till 7plus for 2 evenings... finally i did it, from 2007 backwards and now i am checking through from 2003 forward... wish me luck that all is in place!
I was so, so drained when i finished work earlier. In an impulse to reward myself (and an excuse to be vain), i popped into the neighbourhood 'nail palace' and did a mani/pedicure! The hand and foot massage was really shiok and i felt so pampered... pretty with my pink fingernails and dark red toenails but there goes my $55! Bestie is going to kill me as we're supposed to save up =P
After being happy (for a short while), i logged into Facebook and saw a message from my boss. Recently, my clique and her have not been on good terms and it is evident she feels it too. Front part of the message was about my personal issues then it came to work and the relationship between her and us gals. I cried while reading it... the tap is like turned on forever... argh!! I hate myself for being so easily affected...
Everything arose from a simple incident - we didn't ask her along for lunch a few days back. Not that we did it on purpose but she wasn't around when we were going out... and lately she does not lunch with us so we thought she was going to settle lunch herself! She felt we treated her like an outsider and were not comfortable hanging out with her... come on lah, we have been lunching together for more than a year already!
She probably didn't realise that we were pissed with her because of work issues. At least for me, i felt pissed because of her work attitude lately. Pressing me for something which is not urgent... just because she came out from a meeting and saw me talking to another colleague, she probably thought i was skiving... and i don't like the way she handles certain things, especially with tomorrow's DnD. I feel for my temp staff; felt he was being exploited!
Anyway, i hate it when things like these happen... i feel so sad when things fall into disequilibrium... shall i just reply to her message or speak to her face to face? Oh well, i guess i will cry if i confront her face to face... writing will suffice... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~