Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Problems
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
Dorothy Parker
The feeling of waking up every morning with a heavy load of problems on your back is really frustrating and bothersome. It's like a leech that just wouldn't get off your skin. I read somewhere before that people who think alot and think too much risk losing hair. That could be the case for me. Things haven't been going well recently, mainly due to the bill problem.
It started when The Cannery posted the May08 bill over to me on May 6 and I only received the fucking bill on June 9! That is one entire month and needless to say I missed the deadline and got charged with late payment which can't be waived. $20 dollars isn't excatly a big sum and it's not the issue that is leaving me fuming with rage but rather it is how SingPost handles the situation that really pushes my blood to the tip of the scale. Apparently the company has a really inconvenient form of payment methods that is by either cash or cheque. Naturally I choosed the latter and so I mailed them my cheque last Tuesday and till today they haven't received it. The worse thing is that the June deadline 20/06/08 is fast approaching! I haven't had such a problem in the past because back then I had a friend working there and I could deposit the money to her and she would clear the payment for me but she has since quitted and that marked the start of all sorts of problems from mailing the bill to the wrong address to late bills and now missing cheques!
Carol said I should have sent the cheque as a registered mail instead of a normal mail so they will place more responsibility on it. Maybe I should have done that but how would I, a person who uses mail or postage services as often as the government increasing everyone's income, know that there is such a thing as normal (26 cents) and registered ($2.30) postage mails? Maybe I was really dumb. Fine but all I know right now is I needed to resolve this fast. I didn't want it to drag on any longer. I had already perceive I would have a bad birthday next week so the last thing I wanted is having this problem unsolved. All will depends on what kind of answer SingPost gives me tomorrow. I couldn't resist it, so I made my feelings and intentions known very clearly in black and white to them in the evening.
I should have known too my day wasn't going to go or end well judging from what happened this morning. I went to 7-11 to get my cigarettes and papers, and as I didn't have enough cash, I gave the cashier my debit card. She looked at it like it was something alien to her before asking me confusingly: "What card is this". I told her it was a debit card and her next question almost left me banging the wall beside: "what is a debit card"? How in the world could a cashier in 7-11 not know what is a debit card? It is beyond knowledge really. As hard as she tried, she couldn't or rather she doesn't know how to operate the card machine and end up telling me this card is invalid! Invalid when I have been using it for purchases at other 7-11 stores before? Cool! Sensing that the queue behind me is getting longer and impatient, I didn't bothered arguging. "You want to pay in cash?" "Obviously I don't have enough cash if not why I wanna pay for a $11 purchase with a card right? It's ok please cancel the purchase".
Things didn't go very smoothly in office as well. As we are having an aduit from tomorrow, there was abit of chaos and due to a lack of knowledge of the need to classify all files into restricted, confidential, secret and so on, alot of files were left unclassified. And the task of opening these files 1 by 1 to check and classify them accordingly became my job. I cannot stand Dino sometimes, he likes to whine, stomp his feets and throw his temper around like a girl until his requests gets fufiled. And to think he went as far as saying I made him beg me to help him and that I was giving him excuses for delaying to help him. I only have 2 hands, he needed to understand that. I wouldn't have agreed to help if it was someone else for sure.
As bad as things stand right now, I know it will only get better. It's just a matter of time isn't it.
Dorothy Parker
The feeling of waking up every morning with a heavy load of problems on your back is really frustrating and bothersome. It's like a leech that just wouldn't get off your skin. I read somewhere before that people who think alot and think too much risk losing hair. That could be the case for me. Things haven't been going well recently, mainly due to the bill problem.
It started when The Cannery posted the May08 bill over to me on May 6 and I only received the fucking bill on June 9! That is one entire month and needless to say I missed the deadline and got charged with late payment which can't be waived. $20 dollars isn't excatly a big sum and it's not the issue that is leaving me fuming with rage but rather it is how SingPost handles the situation that really pushes my blood to the tip of the scale. Apparently the company has a really inconvenient form of payment methods that is by either cash or cheque. Naturally I choosed the latter and so I mailed them my cheque last Tuesday and till today they haven't received it. The worse thing is that the June deadline 20/06/08 is fast approaching! I haven't had such a problem in the past because back then I had a friend working there and I could deposit the money to her and she would clear the payment for me but she has since quitted and that marked the start of all sorts of problems from mailing the bill to the wrong address to late bills and now missing cheques!
Carol said I should have sent the cheque as a registered mail instead of a normal mail so they will place more responsibility on it. Maybe I should have done that but how would I, a person who uses mail or postage services as often as the government increasing everyone's income, know that there is such a thing as normal (26 cents) and registered ($2.30) postage mails? Maybe I was really dumb. Fine but all I know right now is I needed to resolve this fast. I didn't want it to drag on any longer. I had already perceive I would have a bad birthday next week so the last thing I wanted is having this problem unsolved. All will depends on what kind of answer SingPost gives me tomorrow. I couldn't resist it, so I made my feelings and intentions known very clearly in black and white to them in the evening.
I should have known too my day wasn't going to go or end well judging from what happened this morning. I went to 7-11 to get my cigarettes and papers, and as I didn't have enough cash, I gave the cashier my debit card. She looked at it like it was something alien to her before asking me confusingly: "What card is this". I told her it was a debit card and her next question almost left me banging the wall beside: "what is a debit card"? How in the world could a cashier in 7-11 not know what is a debit card? It is beyond knowledge really. As hard as she tried, she couldn't or rather she doesn't know how to operate the card machine and end up telling me this card is invalid! Invalid when I have been using it for purchases at other 7-11 stores before? Cool! Sensing that the queue behind me is getting longer and impatient, I didn't bothered arguging. "You want to pay in cash?" "Obviously I don't have enough cash if not why I wanna pay for a $11 purchase with a card right? It's ok please cancel the purchase".
Things didn't go very smoothly in office as well. As we are having an aduit from tomorrow, there was abit of chaos and due to a lack of knowledge of the need to classify all files into restricted, confidential, secret and so on, alot of files were left unclassified. And the task of opening these files 1 by 1 to check and classify them accordingly became my job. I cannot stand Dino sometimes, he likes to whine, stomp his feets and throw his temper around like a girl until his requests gets fufiled. And to think he went as far as saying I made him beg me to help him and that I was giving him excuses for delaying to help him. I only have 2 hands, he needed to understand that. I wouldn't have agreed to help if it was someone else for sure.
As bad as things stand right now, I know it will only get better. It's just a matter of time isn't it.
posted by mango at 8:07 PM
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