Still Under Construction

I know I promised to show you guys the made over room last week. The sad truth is, its not ready yet. There's a delay in me getting the wall feature done because I have been too engrossed with going out on the weekends and hence my room is not quite Ikea showroom quality yet. Rest assured that things are moving along and I might even do a blog video special to introduce my "new" room to yous all.....

The reason why I've been so quiet is because I did not want to blog about work last week. The 1st week will always be very emotionally unstable for me, as thoughts of me making the wrong choice would have crossed my mind at least a dozen times a day. This will be reflected in my tone of blogging and I would never want to worry my fans who happen to be spread out all around the world now.

So this week I am calmer and here I am.

It is a bit of a work culture shock to say the least. I realised that I had to pull back quite a bit on my work attitude and ethics with this job. The working hours are officially between 8:00am to 5:30pm, but no one ever leaves before 6:00pm. Not that you couldn't, but the system will eventually force you into submission and your body clock will be tuned to only think about leaving after 5:55pm. Well, at least I get an hour's lunch to compensate for it, and trust me, unless you have something that requires really urgent attention, everyone takes the full hour for lunch.

Secondly, this new role requires me to manage 2 staff members. Although we will be doing different projects, I have to understand and know their projects inside out, so when they come to me for advice, I will be able to at least carry on a conversation with them. The two staff members are alright. I've heard everyone's public appraisal of them but I try not to let it cloud my judgement too much. As Matt said to me on the phone tonight, "work is work, keep the emotions for your friends and loved ones". In the end, their performance reflects my efficiency as a manager. People cannot be difficult all the time, it'll be too exhaustive. It is a young team, and hence the dynamics are a bit different from my last team. And because we service small businesses, I have spoken more Chinese in the last week than I have in my 10 years in Australia. I reckon my Chinese has improved about 200%.

And I just found out today my KPI is to hit $65K for the next financial year for the company....hmmm....

I just realised I've been keeping my camera in my bag for too long. Its time to bring it out for a spin. I think I will take some pics of me at work so you can see my working environment.

I know this post is not very funny and even somewhat technical.

Its 11pm.

I'm tired.

Miss Matt.

Get over it.