Last month the missus and I went on a 4 day trip to Jakarta. It was my first since 2020 before Covid. I really needed that trip to break away from the craziness at work, gain some balance for myself and just rest my tired mind. This time we went on a no frills Scoot flight in the late morning.
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| That's Our Plane - RX100Mk3 |
July continued the shitload from June for sure where work is concerned. The damned project that was rushed earlier has been further delayed to sometime in September. I'm amazed that I'm proven correct yet again, but everyone seemed to turn a blind eye and just let things be. I on the other hand cannot stand the way we were made to rush here and there especially when I'm still doing BAU. So again... I'm extremely pissed off as usual.
I went for a 2nd interview for an internal transfer opportunity, unfortunately I don't think I'll get that position. The interviewer, a Korean long timer since day 0 of ONE was very sharp and immediately asked for the real reason why I wanted to transfer. In his own words "your answer looking for new challenge and career progression is very general, out of 100 people 99 will say the same, I want to know the real reason why you want to leave". I gave an answer that was still incomplete as I only mentioned about the friction and dynamics with another department that's been giving us problems; I can't say things about my boss' poor judgement and vanity for sure, and about my team mates' habits of working on weekends as well as just being assholes. Well..... in any case this is going to be another miss for sure... I'm starting to wonder if I seriously need to consider looking outside....
If May was madhouse, June is .......... I don't know man...... I've been so pissed off and angry for the whole of the month for sure. Work was terrible, I really hated work with a vengeance. My Tuesdays were mostly terrible, and sometimes my Thursdays too. It was just meetings after meetings after meetings and meetings... I don't understand why they like to talk so much when there are so many things to do! And the f&$king SAP integration project entered UAT stage. I still had my usual BAU and other things, and this f*&cked up project had to rear it's ugly head and made life a living hell for me. It was the school holidays, instead of spending time with my children I had to spend time on work. Just work..... Such a f#$ked up job.
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| It Was Just Meetings After Meetings After Meetings - Galaxy S23+ |
May has been an extremely packed month, I was even considering recapping this month's entry as "Machine Gun May", but I thought it wouldn't rhyme so well. So "Madhouse" it is as the word describes the packed month quite appropriately anyway.
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| Sunday Latte - Galaxy S23+ |
April has mostly been difficult. I think the biggest thing that happened this month is that the missus got let go by her company just this Monday. It took a while for her to process the news and I did my best to comfort her. Just earlier this afternoon we went to her office to clean up her cubicle.
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| Me and Lindsay Cleaning The Missus' Cubicle - iPhone 13 |
Oh yeah, the pressure's going up this month for sure. I've been so busy at work that I have been working on Sundays for about 4 hours just to catch up. I really hate this month... So the SAP, Salesforce & in-house ONE Finance integration project has started in full swing and it's really making life a living hell for me. The SAP part which is the backbone of the project is not even fully implemented yet, the end users don't have a picture of how they'll do things and we have to design our new module without a clear picture of the use cases and processes. The ONE Finance API is also still in development, which means we can't do any testing or have a clear picture of how the products interact with each other until the API development is completed in mid-April.
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| Crimson March Moon - Galaxy S23+ |
