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The General have gotten back to Baldwin. Baldwin will remain in charge of the Furniture Portfolio and additionally, will be taking over another department as well. Baldwin did not mention to me which new department that Baldwin will be looking after…but my wild guess will be the Home Furnishing portfolio because Madam Yap is on a contractual basis as she have passed her retirement age. Baldwin is a bit upset with this new, unexpected arrangement and regretted requesting The General for a swap…believing that if Baldwin did not make such a request in the first place, this additional work load will not happen. Baldwin also finds it unfair, what’s more in our case – it was a suka-sama-suka that we want to swap units. However, The General has yet to get back to me…so my situation is still a big question mark :( Not only that, there will be changes – a re-structuring at the Assistant position level as well. Currently, the practice is that 1 buyer will have 1 assistant. Now the buyers will no longer have the assistants helping them out on a daily basis. That means, Isla and I will be parting ways soon. The current group of assistants will be further divided into subdivision; doing very specialized work. There will be a team raising POs, a team doing promotion-related works, a team doing indent-related works etc. There are pros and cons to it. Work will be more focus for sure but the assistants will not be able to learn something new and they will have a very limited opportunities to move up the value chain. It will be a very much trial-and-error basis. No dates has been confirmed on when this re-structuring will be implemented.