Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Tired Man, Angry Man, Thats me.
I should say being a clerk during NS teaches you many things. Administration, of course, is a vocational skill you will pick up along the way whether you like it or not. The other skills include treading lightly on toes of higher ups without them noticing, making yourself look busy while you're not, last but not least sucking up to your boss.
Inadvertently, or maybe subconsciously, I AM veering towards that last aspect while failing in the other two. Unlike many other peers in the army and air force, navy seems to be the pits of hell in terms of workloads. Maybe its a good thing, since time passes really quickly when you have lots of things to do. It bothers me, though, that work piles up so much that we hardly give much thought to what we are doing. We aren't paid to think, perhaps. What you pay S$440 a month for, what you will get. They're certainly getting their money's worth, since we're working our heads off and getting scraps as remuneration. That goes without mentioning the office polititcs that is flying so thick you can cut it with a knife. Yes, its that bad.
Of course, I am exaggerating the way things happen. But as anyone and everyone who asks, I tell: "We want a pay raise!"
LOL!
MeOweD`
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