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Work Tales - this Ursula is so nasty. Perli me kaw-kaw this week :(

Perli 001 – Ursula perli me that ‘no one guide you is it’? Yeah, Leonardo has given me lots of freedom on how to run the business. Leonardo doesn’t care how I do it; I just have to deliver the results at the end of the day. Even when I was drowning myself with paper work, Leonardo just say - don’t make things so complicated, make it fast, don’t be so slow and prioritize the work. It was Ursula who reminds me that me (as a buyer) I should have spend more of my time on negotiating with the suppliers, instead of doing these paper work. I should have delegate more of my work to Isla then. But I guess, when Leonardo ask me to do it, I just take it upon myself to do it all by myself. I was not working smart then :( And now that I am under Ursula's charge, I am still doing the same thing because it’s habitual. I have been in the box for the past 14 months now, running in the box for the past 14 months…thus, everything just becomes habitual and is tough to break the chains off. Argh. It’s so tragic, but it’s so true. Well, I certainly hope that I can do a whole lot more after this.

Perli 002 – Ursula called me via the phone. I pick it up on the first ring. Do you know what this Ursula says to me?

Ursula: Are you very free now, not doing anything?
Me: No, I am actually very busy. Why?
Ursula: You pick up the phone very fast. You must be very free then.
Me: The phone is just next to me.
Ursula: My phone is also next to me.

This is crazy or scary or what. Picking up the phone fast is also wrong. What if I was late in picking up the call, will she label me as being inefficient or slow then? Ursula commented that The General always sees me facing the computer whenever The General passes by my room. Hello, I am working. Of course my eyes are fixated on to the computer screen. You want me to be flipping through the newspapers or gossip magazines is it? Or playing games on my mobile? Rupa-rupanya, The General wants to see me more often on the phone. If I am on the phone more often, that means I am negotiating with the suppliers. Ursula also cunningly said that I should raise my voice when talking to the suppliers; indicating that I am working. Negotiating very hard to get the best price for the company. Aiyo, is people like these that makes my life very complicated. Because I will then start to be mindful and will be thinking of each step and its subsequent consequences. It will slow down my job, slow down my pace, slow down my decision making process. There is no spontaneity in it anymore. Come on people…Simplify, Simplify, Simplify…