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Work has been hectic, but it is a good thing.

Today, two perm staff and one attachment student simultaneously decided to take last minute medical leave, leaving (no pun intended) the remaining HR executive and me in a tizzy.

At about 10.40 am, there were some 59 files on my table.

At about 3.25pm, the files have increased to 84.

At about 4.57pm, there were 113.

I could barely see the top of my desk!

But I’m getting the hang of it, I am. Apart from the files, that is. Out of the 2637 calls I received today [the receptionist decided to auto-forward all her calls to me. Smart, ain't she?], I screwed up only 3. A vast improvement I would think, considering that I screwed up 4281 out of 4284 calls last week, yeah.

All sarcastic humour and wry self-deprecation aside, seeing an employee break down in tears today when served the letter of termination affected me quite badly. Even more so cos I was the one who handed her that damning letter [almost 3/4 of the HR department was missing, remember]. Sigh.

Addendum: am I breaching any confidentiality thingie? will I get sued for talking about this? I hope not.

s t a r m | s t July 21st, 2005

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