Day 4

Feeling absolutely knackered this evening. The day seemed to drag on forever but at the same time fly by. I lost all track of time and only remembered lunch at 2pm. Even then I didn’t leave my desk and gave up eating to finish my work. The Dutch commented that I space out often and stop listening to him halfway. Which is true. But only because I have so much I need to keep track of.. I really don’t mean to. Maybe also because of Wednesday night tennis, I’m physically tired too.

AB got a call and picked up going “Oh hey Loz” and I jumped up thinking it was you Lozzie, but it wasn’t. My feelings were a mixture of “Lozzie called AB! But hasn’t texted me at all, no activity on social media, nothing” But those thoughts quickly vanished as coincidentally you sent me a text! And a photo! And a cat photo!

*dies inside*

You think Pepper has separation anxiety? I HAVE SEPARATION ANXIETY.

What else what else..

The “Engine” might very well have a new name by the time you’re back 🙂 I’m so happy that it’s finally moving along!

A window smashed today. Not sure how. Apparently it’s not the first.

The merchandise arrived today (the unsigned one), but they left out 16x of one item. Sadness.

Today is Thursday, and every Thursday we do the weekly. It seems like the weekly is no longer my guilty pleasure. I found it incredibly stressful to organize and complete in time, even though it was moderately sized and I started in the morning.

The Dutch said “Thanks, I know I only give you shit, but it’s good.”

And that’s about it.

Lozzie’s special note: Today’s moderation, which I only got round to doing around noon, had 11 responses. 11 ! I CC’d it to you just because !

 

 

 

Day 2

Today was hectic! Emails flying in and out, some miscommunication here and there.

Trapezium has delayed their delivery til Friday. Ummm..

After 3 days of silence, T-bomb’s replacement/colleague has finally reverted to me on all my emails yaaaayy! I was honestly getting worried she was intentionally ignoring because she didn’t know who I was. I guess it’s because she’s suddenly been given a whole heap of responsibilities and was settling in. Silly me.

Our content delivery process seemed better today with stuff being fed in multiple times a day, I’m really happy about working with Diamond 🙂

I’m glad AB will be back tomorrow, our desk neighbourhood has been real quiet with so many of you away. Which reminds me, I think Melon has already gotten over Peps, he didn’t come this way to sniff around when he was upstairs. Brutal.

Lozzie’s special note: The website maaaay have crashed for a few hours. It’s all g now, live onsite as well, and we’re at 300k points woohoo

Day 1

It is 10.24am, we just had the agency all-staffer. IT has helped broadcast the AO on the screens, how will I get any work done today? I just want to chill on the couches and watch tennis all day *u*

Hot water still isn’t working on level 3, Melon popped into the lift with me as I was carrying my tea up. He ducked past everyone and stared at the empty space where Pepper usually lives from 9 – 6. He had the most sad puppy eyes in puppy eyes history. I wonder what can fill his void for the next 3 weeks.

I was arranging hampers and all I needed was the weight or dimensions of the box to organize a courier. I called our lovely friend at Trapezium who said she didn’t have time for such trivial matters and expressed her shock that we couldn’t organize for the merchandise to be delivered on our own. It seems like shes forgotten what we truly need is to raise the value of the items with some ink scrawled on. We cant organize delivery? What an outrage. Especially when I called at 10.30am and she said sorry its tournament day 1 and shes very busy and shes not even at the venue yet so hasn’t seen the merchandise yet. Great stuff Trapezium.

As I expected the daily content was not ready for the 4-5pm scheduled review. But that’s okay, it is day 1.

I have survived one day without you, only 16 more to go 🙂

Lozzie’s special note: I had a salad for dinner today!

The last day

Every once in a while I take different route to work, I accompany my other half to world square and walk down darling harbour, past the IMAX theatre and Harbourside instead of taking the bridge.

This morning I found myself looking up more than usual, taking in all of the wonders of man’s creation. I took my time walking, observing people, appreciating structures .. until the sun started burning through my coats and I hurried into the shelter of the preserved F L Barker wool store.

The atmosphere on level 2 was very lively, perhaps because it’s Friday. Perhaps it’s this lively every day but I notice it particularly because I was just savouring my last day. I really love the DJs team, every single person is so special and has left a great impression on me.

Day 30

Received another email from the president this morning, to inform us of a new Instagram account the company has created and the brilliant team behind it.

I promptly went on Instagram and checked out the other accounts we have, now if this doesn’t show how much I love the company, I don’t know what does:

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I finally added several colleagues to LinkedIn today. I took over some of Lana’s workload today as she was off on a shoot. However towards lunch time I started fading away and Major Blunder said he could see life leaving my face.

After lunch I still didn’t feel too great, it was actually a tough decision for me to go home at 3pm because I felt responsible for handling Lana’s work and I was enjoying myself being busy as well. I left my work in the careful hands of timtam and went home early for the first time.

 

Day 29

I had to run to the doctor today and was late and my first mate, who has renamed himself to Major Blunder  (pun fully intended) was worried. d’aaawww

On my way to work I noticed an email from someone I hadn’t heard of before, and you know how notifications on your phone don’t display the full email title, I saw “evaluation” and had a little shock. I mean, jesus, I’ve been worrying about my future from my 3rd week and I just got ‘rejected’ sort of the day before and suddenly there’s an evaluation?!

Silly ol’ me didn’t have to worry at all as it wasn’t an email directed personally at me but rather, it was from our president and was sent out to every employee.

I had a few new tasks to do today, I was in charge of creating an asset library and helping antman who was actually helping doubleb on some customer portraits.

Kitty swung by at 5pm to deliver some exciting news.

Highlight: We did get our coffee/hot chocolate meeting but Major Blunder blundered and we left without paying oops! He did go back later, apology and cash in hand.

Day 28

Okay, today I came to work feeling rather upset and decided I’d be less social and do my own thing. I happily accepted proofreading duties from Lainey as my first mate was off today.

Unfortunately my peaceful day stopped short at about 12.30pm, I had the dreaded update with timtam. It’s plain to me this past week and a half that the company didn’t expect me to stay when they first hired me.

I don’t know what to make of the praise I receive, of course it feels good but it feels like it’s worth nothing. Timtam told me there are no positions available for my level and they’re looking for people with 3-4 years at least.

Fair enough.

She gave the option of staying with the team or hopping to another team to learn something new.

I couldn’t think straight after that.

I left the office to the quiet spot overlooking the river and the harbour bridge where my first mate took me to last week when I was troubled about my mom. I sat there holding my head in my hands for 30minutes. It was happening again. The overwhelming feel of being a disappointment to the family. Oh how everyone would agree with their past themselves that I should never have left home on my own, that I can’t manage, that I need to be spoon fed.

I sent a hefty text to my first mate ranting about my situation and how unfair life is and etc. you know the drill, typical Gen Y can’t adapt when things don’t go her way.

On my way back to the office I ran into the very very sweet Cherry. I didn’t really know what to say to her, she could probably see my crestfallen face behind my smile. She talked to me about my time here and what she knows about the company. She shared some insights about herself and her decisions for her future which helped me make a decision on what I would do.

I will have to think about it still, even though my mind is 90% made up after talking to Cherry, god bless her sweet soul honestly, and I will inform timtam later this week.

I was busy in the afternoon with several tasks and suddenly realized my first mate had responded to my earlier rant, and even though I was feeling much better his simple “Do not despair young captain we will have a hearty chat over a hot chocolate tomorrow!” just made me leak a few tears at my desk.