damn.. it's 9:05am and i'm already looking at the clock, wishing
it was 6pm
poor colleague of mine.. stuck between a rock and a hard
place..
we sent a huge pile of crap to be sent to the various HDB offices..
has to be sent by our despatch drivers of course... when i say a
huge pile, i mean close to 100kg of pamphlets..
the mail room, which does mail.. tells us to arrange with the
drivers since these are special deliveries and out of the way of
the usual despatch routes... they could have but chose not to... so
my colleague does the usual efficient thing and talks to the
transport section..
thing is, the transport section is swamped, people are ill, the
vans are kaput and they only have enough people and vehicles to do
the daily despatch between the various sites.. and it's usually a
lot, taking up the whole van.. so they ask that we wait until they
can arrange it.. probably by next week..
colleague figures, no hurry... the delivery of the pamphlets aren't
that important because HDB still has the older version... this is
just a new version of it..
the boss is not happy that the mail room isn't doing this for us...
and starts ranting at my colleague instead...
body language-wise, you can see she's upset... so she back to the
cubicle and everything's dead quiet for a few minutes... then she
sets about doing stuff which is not hers.. simple stuff like
talking to some people to get their replies (actually, i was
waiting until tomorrow because that's the usual one week of lead
time we give them) and correspondence with them... anything but the
actual work the boss gave to her...
the stupid boss has cracked under the pressure she put herself
under.. her insistence on micromanaging everything and her
inability to trust anyone is putting a strain on everyone around
her..
heck! there was a project by another section which ended up with us
for some reason.. instead of telling the other section "okay.. you
send this because it's your project", she chose to write a whole
lot of sycophantic BS which will grate and set your teeth on edge
if you read it... so nothing was done... resulting in our side
being asked for the update two months down the track and somehow,
she taichi'ed it away..
she's got too much on her plate now, and her micromanaging
everything is probably going to cause a breakdown... not her but
us! 
