lost

if there's a month for you to slack around, choose december. if there's a day to slack, it's friday, and if there's a time to slack, it's when your boss is on vacation and your project lead on military service.

add those up and it became last friday.

we were not in the mood to crack our brains up as usual anyway. if you must know, our department is in the middle of inter-departmental sport games to promote team building, and it happened last friday that the other 3 departments tried to take a point off our team.

it was stupid really. we had this rule that if the whole team wear the pre-assigned team colour t-shirt, a bonus point would be given. now they accused one of our table tennis player wore not white, which is our team colour, but beige during the game last wednesday.

beige! as if a group of engineers couldn't differentiate between white and beige.

that now-suddenly-become-famous t-shirt is the kind being worn over long period of time, so it looked kinda, well, worn-out. but still it's white! when they found out they lost the ground to fight, they said that it was not the colour that mattered, but because that player of ours did not wear our team t-shirt.

which is ridiculuous. yes we made the team t-shirt after the first 2 games completed, but surely they cannot change the rule in the middle of the tournament, right? try do that at doha asian games and your country will have to submit application to join the EU instead.

it amazed me how far ppl would go just for one point. one tiny little point! it's not as if the winner will get a free car or anything. we don't even get any time off, so is it worth to jeoperdize our working relationships?

well this is what happened when you are being forced over the years to just swallow everything the government did to us. you'd have to direct your fighting instict somewhere else, however stupid the cause might be.

but if you think about it, it was not totally a lost act, because ppl bond stronger when they have common enemy. looking at how the other 3 teams got together and framed us, they might have achieved superb team bulding affect among them. nevermind that we ended up being a pariah department in the process.

anyway, we will have to return to company tomorrow and work as usual. despite whatever sour feelings we might have inside. despite our unhappiness that our suggestion to make that controversial t-shirt as our department's official flag might be shot to ground. hey, we are all professional, aren't we? and being asian, it's not that hard to smile and curse at the same time too. hypocrism flows in our blood.

moreover, my boss is already on leave since friday noon, all the way until after christmas, which is so good to our morale. if i don't know any better, i'd say he needed time to supervise the elves leading towards the 25th, and returned after he distributed all the presents and store back the sleigh for next year.

in that case, i'd know i've done a good work if my stocking isn't empty that morning, and with a little luck, i can expect a promotion next year too.

which is why i don't intend to slack around on monday tomorrow. seriously.


...ed