I almost...

I almost lose my patience and tolerance at work today.
Work was piling up like crazy, yet my supervsior kept asking me to do things for her.

"Later will you be free? Help me file these things."
"Help me send these letter through the in-house courier when you're free."
"Help me check if these invoices are blocked/unblocked for payment."
"After you finish, help me match the invoices with those in the system."
"Later when you complete your things, help me reverse the invoices."
"These pile of invoices, sort them according to their alphabet."

The worst one was:
Me: (After trying for a few times) I've problems with the invoice.
Supervisor: You go investigate the problem yourself. Call the vendor and ask, and find out the problem.
Me: @#!!!! GRH.
....

I almost,
ALMOST wanted to retort her back.
BUT i just controlled, and i didn't even bother to answer her a word when she told me to do all these things.
Unless she's blind that she can't see that the invoices are piling on my table, or she probably has STM as she has forgotten the amt of work she gave me.

In between the things she's allocated for me to do, she told me that she's so happy that her table are not piled with invoices anymore.
BECAUSE all the invoices are now on my table.

I had to give her face because she was my aunt's friend, so i remain cool in order to maintain my image.
Honestly, I almost couldn't contain the anger inside me.
It's hard you know.
Thks YW, for reading my not-so-nice smses.

I came back to help you on saturday after my school because you told me that you've got things to rush as yr accounts assistant just resigned.
I work from 8.30am to 6.30pm or 6.45pm instead of leaving at 6pm, just to help you lighten your workload.
And this is how the way you treat me in return.

Fine.

When i wanted to leave at 6.30pm today because my dad came back from Korea today, and it's been nearly a wk since we had dinner together,
BUT you told me to finish sorting the invoices before going hm.
Even though you said, "if you cant finish, leave it for the temp staff to do tml", I can see that you said tt because you had no choice.
So i knocked off at only 6.45pm.
It's not like i slacked during the whole day.
I worked hard, that i didn't even have the time to finish up my breakfast.
I did the work assigned as fast as i could, and then it was lunch time, and then, one by one, ppl were leaving the office to go home.

Very well.
You helped me towards the end when you saw that i was struggling to finish, but why didn't you did that earlier?
Comparing the workload, mine was much heavier than yours today.

ANYWAY.

I rushed home.
Complained to my parents over dinner, on the horrible treatment today.
Being furious, i talked so fast that grandma said that she couldn't even catch most of what i was saying. Haa.

Well, my parents gave me comments of both sides.

AGAINST ME:
Superiors have the power to tell their team what to do, even if it's simple tasks such as filing.
So you'll just have to follow what they tell you to do.
You have no choice, they are your supervisor.

PROS:
Sometimes, supervisor will give their assistant more things to do when they feel that they're more capable of doing things.
(So i'll treat what dad say as an encouragement to me. And i can use this to calm myself down whenever i feel unfair.)

One thing about part time temp staff is that you need nt stay late just to finish your things, assuming that during the day, you did not slack at all. Because as a part-timer, you have the benefit of leaving the things that u're unable to finish to the nxt working day.
(Yup i feel that this is quite true as well.)

So i'll have to work smart.
Things that i shld give in, i shld just give in.
And things that i shld nt give in, i won't give in anymore.

A rather lengthy post today.
But at least i feel better after writing all these out.
Gee.
What a day.

I'm off to do a card for one of my church teacher, who knew my parents since they were teenagers, because they're migrating to Perth tml.