Pre-Christmas Drama

So, Christmas is in 2 days time. But this year's Christmas is filled with drama in the week leading to it. Let me tell you what happened this week.

Last Monday, Strawberry Cheesecake resigned. We, the girls, were so worried for her. As my readers would have known, my boss who shall not be named, has never ever ever ever ever handled resignation well. But surprisingly, he actually handled her resignation so well and even very supportive! The girls who saw her entering his office was confused as 1. the meeting didn't take long. And 2, where's the yelling???

Even Strawberry Cheesecake herself was confused. She said she couldn't remember much of the meeting as she was thinking "why he's not angry? Why he's taking it so well???" during the talk.

So it was good for her, and we're so happy for her.

Mon arvo, Prick came and talked to Creamer and Lao-er. Straight after, he dashed out angrily and went home. Creamer then asked me about the status of a task, to which I replied, I was working on it. He then said "It's due today". As typical of prick, always comes the minute it's due and angry coz its not done. Anyway we tried to do it, but it was too complex to finish in 1 hour so we left it.

Tue morning, just when we finished the stage 1 of yesterday's task, Taizi Fei came and told us that a bunch of emails to the new audience were sent out that morning. Shit. Creamer and I looked at each other and wondered how it could have happened. We went live with something yesterday yes, but we've gone Live 2 weeks ago with the same thing and all was fine.

The problem was, the client specifically requested NOT to send those emails to this new audience. We can't send ANY emails to them as we haven't officially launched it to them.

I straight away checked the code that sent out those emails, and I found that the code was correct. However, the placement of those codes was WRONG! Those emails should not be sent at that point in time!! I showed it to my Creamer, his face turned grave and said "This is bad, Purple Lady..." I said, "I know, but at least we now know how it happened". What I didn't know was, that it was going to be THIS bad.

You know who was extremely upset when he heard it. He was blaming everyone on how could the wrong code could go into the Live site. The person who coded it was Barbie's boyfriend. Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but he quitted some time ago. I can't believe how lucky he is.

However, the people who could have gone live with it were me, Water Tap and Creamer. But honestly, and this was confirmed by the 2 of them too, no matter whoever goes live with it, he/she won't notice this issue. As we only code review the changes, not the original code.

Creamer had to run around explaining to the one who shall not be named, and Lao-er. And who knows if superexcited actually got what the problem was. After all he's not an IT guy. Just an old man who thinks he's very knowledgeable. *sigh...

Anyway you know who was very angry. And he wanted to have a meeting with the whole IT department re this issue. The meeting didn't happen on Wed, not Thu either. Honestly, me and Little Missy were feeling safe when it didn't happen on Thu. But who knows Fri just b4 lunch, we were all called for a meeting *sigh

It turned out better than I thought. Superexcited seemed to listen to our issues and suggestions. Yes he still ranted about the incident. But it was way better than me and Little Missy expected. So we thought all is fine.

However that night, Creamer said to me, "I know you like to talk to everyone. And I know you can't keep a secret(WTH????). But you have to keep this one. You cant tell anyone" I said, "O.. Kay..? ". He then said, "I've just resigned". First thing I said was, "No... "

He then said that he's been thinking about it for a while. And he's been trying to talk to Lao-er for a month, but Lao-er was so busy and couldn't talk with him. He said this week's issue wasn't the only reason, but it was the deciding factor. He said he's doing 5 ppl's work and felt not appreciated. Everytime someone's PC breaks, he's called. When someone only has 1 monitor, he's to blamed. When Crown Prince's personal laptop breaks, 5 times, who did they call? Him! He's a manager, but doing web developing and IT support as well.

He said he's so fed up with everything. He said, during today's meeting, this was what annoyed him the most.
Super excited: "New guy, do you know why we're here? Do you know the problem? "
New guy: *turned to Creamer*
Superexcited: "don't look at Creamer. He doesn't know the answer. Look at Water Tap, he might know the answer. Look at Little Missy, he might know the answer".

He's had enough. He doesn't think superexcited understands what the issue was. How it could happen to anyone who went live with it. How there is no bug free software. He just doesn't understand.

He said sorry to me, for leaving me behind with the websites that are still not 100% done. And he's sorry for all the time he dumped stuffs to me without properly explaining. He said he wanted to explain, but he didn't have the time. And he knew I would figure it out in the end. He also regretted, not supporting Water Tap's idea that much before.

If it wasn't because of the one who shall not be named, he'd have stayed on.

I don't know how many times I've heard that now. So many good employees have said that when they left. The best people we've ever had.

I think about things a lot. I was down a whole day yesterday thinking about this. There's nothing I can do, but I just can't help thinking.

I hope I can still have peace this Christmas.

Random Blabbering of the Day

Nowadays people are so into their mobile phones and don't care about other people and courtesy anymore. I think I liked it better when apple was only a fruit.

I got off a bus just then. I got off from the front of the bus, and tried to walk to the station. Because it was at the front, there were people queueing to get on the bus. However, they were standing next to the side divider of the bus stop, so there's really only enough space for 1 person to walk.

Then, right at the side of that divider, there was this one guy standing not really in line with the other people. So he was taking half of the space of us who got off the bus. He was (of course) looking at his mobile phone with no care in the world that he was taking the space for the people getting off. Us, me included, had our bags bumped to him as we walked past him. He, didn't budge at all. I actually bumped my bag to him purposely. Hopefully I hit him.

This morning we had a high school student doing 1 week work experience in our office. He's probably in year 10, very young. Poker Face took the boy to our IT area and introduced me and Creamer to him.

Little Missy and Drug were away sick this morming, and Water Tap working hours is later than us. Poker Face said, "Where are the others? They are all having a sleep in today I guess".

He said it lightly, making it like a joke. Then Creamer said, "Drug is sick today. Little Missy is having his surgery right now. And Water Tap comes in at 10 as usual. "

Seriously, what was he trying to say??? Both of them were legitimately having medical reason. And Little Missy was having surgery! SO inappropriate!!

Dunno if he saw it, but my look and Creamer's look clearly showed that we weren't happy about it.

Then later on, Poker Face was trying to make a joke with the boy. I guess maybe because the boy was looking awkward. Well what can you expect? He's young and in unfamiliar place. Anyway, this was what happened.

Poker Face: I heard from your dad that you're some kind of computer whiz. He said you might be able to help in the IT dept. So what languages are you familiar with?

The boy: English.

Poker Face: ...

Me: *trying to hold my giggles 😂

Melbourne Cup 2018

Nah, I didn't win anything :( but it was still a nice celebration. The bosses arrange for fruit and cheese platter for us and the cheese was so good! The blue cheese was strong too xD

Just want to record these funny conversations I had yesterday :)


*just before I left from work
Me: Creamer, are you going training?
Creamer: no, why?
Me: Should I go to gym or not?
Water Tap: You had cheese today.
Me: -___-

*on the way home to station with the girls
Me: ugh we didn't win anything
Colleague 1: My horse was the last!!
Me: My horse DIED!!!
Colleague 2: *couldn't stop laughing*

What an Unlucky Day

Let me tell you how unlucky I was last Saturday 😑

It started in the morning when we were at the airport, sending my parents off. We had Subway foe breakfast. The girl who served me heard my order incorrectly. I ordered ham, egg and cheese sub, but when she was about to put my sub into the toaster, I noticed that she didn't put egg on it. So I asked, "And the egg?". She then asked, "so you want to add an egg?". I said yes and she put it in the toaster and the rest went fine.

However, when paying, the total came up to $9.95. I was confused, coz I thought my sub cost $5.50ish. I did order a cookie, but it should come up to $7-8. I still paid.

But the more I thought about it, I felt even more off. So I came back and looked at the menu. The price was $5.85! The annoying bit was, the menu was on TV screen that kept rotating, so I had to wait for a while for it to change and couldn't point it to the girl before. Same thing when I went back to the girl and asked, we had to wait for a while for it to come up.

Then the girl said, it's because I ordered Ham and cheese sub with extra egg. I was like huh? @_@ ham and cheese with extra egg, is different to ham, cheese and egg sub? She called another girl out and she said it's because I didn't say "breakfast". WTF, I ordered an 8:30 in the morning. Your brain should have clicked by itself.

The other girl then asked, what exactly that I said. I said, "ham, egg and cheese". The original girl then said, "Oh sorry. I thought it was ham and cheese".

By this point, the other girl was already looking annoyed. She then said, "Breakfast only allows 4 salad. You had full salad." I was so angry. How would I know?? And I had 5 salad! So I said to her, "I had only 5 salad, so $2 for 1 extra salad?? ". Seriously I can buy a bag of spinach or a kilo of onions with $2!

She then said, "It should be veggie delete with extra ham and cheese". I said, "Ok". Then she asked, "Did you pay with card?". I said yes. She looked even more pissed.

Then, guess what she did? She slapped $2.85 on top of my receipt on the counter, turned around and went inside without saying a word. The original girl went along with her. Without a word. Not a single sorry for the inconvenience. How rude.

I froze there for a moment due to the shock of that treatment. I've never had anything that rude in Australia ever. Even when customer service in Australia is just so so. Then I took my stuffs and started to leave. But I was still so annoyed, so I turned around still in anger, looking to that direction.

There was another male staff serving a customer. Not sure if he saw the whole drama, but he noticed I was looking angry. So he asked if there was anything wrong. I asked if he was the manager. He said, no.. Not really. So I said, don't worry then if you're not the manager. He asked, "Are you sure?". I said, "Yeah, don't worry".

The other girl was coming out from the back and I so didn't want to see her face again, so I left.

Really, I was SO angry to the point I had the urge to throw my sub at them!

Arggghhhhhhh 😤😤😤😤

OK, moving on.

After my parents got in, we went to the toilet and I banged my hand on the toilet paper dispenser, hurting my finger a bit.

After that, we went to take a bus. We already saw that bus stopping in front of us on the way to the bus stop. But it wasn't the designated bus stop, so we continued to the bus stop. Then we saw people running to that bus. Turned out that it WAS the bus!! Dammmmnnn, we then ran back to catch it. So apparently the driver hadn't driven this route for a while, and last time he did, the bus stop was there. He didn't know it had been moved across 😩

OK, so we made it to the bus. I took a seat and OMG... The guy sitting behind me stank!!! 😵😵 can this day go any worse 😑
Luckily our stop wasn't far. We survived by using hand cream.

When I was getting off the bus, guess what? I was stuck between the glass and a guy with a huge backpack!!! The guy was standing in the middle of the door, I was behind him, and there was another passenger getting off in front of him. So, he stepped back to let that passenger off not knowing that his backpack was squeezing me behind him!!

My god.. At this point, I knew it was my unlucky day.

Then we went to the mall to shop before movies. I checked out some leggings in Big W, tried them on and when paying, I just realised that the price was $30, not $12 😕 I went back and check, and turned out that the price was right. It was just because I started browsing at $12 rack and made my way from there, I just assumed that I was still at the same rack. I was already at the register man...

We then went to cotton on. I saw some sunglasses with a sign on top saying 5 for $10. So I thought hmm that's good. So I picked 2, and got some bath bombs too. They were all in the same rack. Got to the register, and the girl said, only the bath bombs are 5 for $10. I said "oh? I thought the sign was for everything on that rack". She said, "The sign says Fizzies 5 for $10". Damn.

Twice in a day. Hm.

Lunch wasn't nice too.

Then we went to buy our movie tickets. The lady serving was an older woman, so she was a bit flustered. She asked which movie and for what session. We said Small Foot, 4:15. She pressed some buttons and asked what time again. We wanted to use 2 prepaid vouchers and 1 ticket using my points. But she said we didn't have enough points. Strange, because when we bought our first movie tickets, the girl said I had 1 free movie to redeem. We weren't fussed at we could the points next time, so we paid. Oh, she asked what time again.

Got our ticket and we left. I checked them and the freaking tickets were for 2PM!!!!! 😑 long story short, we told the lady, but she was in the middle of serving coffee for a customer so we had to wait for a while. She knew she stuffed up and wasn't angry or anything. Just even more flustered. Then finally she exchanged our tickets, but still asking "What time?". My sister was already sick of saying 4:15 so many times. In my life, I've never said 4:15 so many times within 15 minutes.

We still had time before the movie. So I looked for a news agency to buy a lottery ticket. Hopefully after so much bad luck, my luck has finally turned.