Overloaded.
If things are not that 'flexible', it won't be so challenging. Difficult not to make conflicting offers.. but with different staffs following different cases, it is difficult to adhere to a standard offer. The CF is not a supermarket, where there are price tags for everything. It depends on the total quantity purchased.. And in the competitive market, there will be some who will always try to sound out the market. How to be vague and at the same time make a convincing offer?
So after 5 months of being in the production line, i was 'given' the opportunity to attempt some sales of the CF. Not so much of a product information but a suitable quote for the items. And suitable means retaining customers and profitability. I don't have a quota yet.. it is more of a personal responsibility i've placed. If everything sell dirt cheap, of coz can hit quota.. but the whole picture won't look that good.
The inventory was in my care too for the past week.. maintaining sufficient stock and at the same time source for cheaper (but same quality) alternatives. Also, to maintain just the right amount of stock to lower storage cost and also to avoid storing things that have low turnover rate. If the inventory can be forecasted like the weather, there won't be any butter in the CF.
Not to mention, i still have to fulfill my mechanic work, and at times to answer phone calls, and also tend the counter as the cashier. That is on top of fabricating connection methods and finding the correct adapters from a quite a number of them. Plus the inventory and sales i had to followup, i think i alone is definitely not enough.
Just too bad when some chose to stay indifferent.. i don't know why.. never did the CF ill-treat them.. i guess, people lose their motivation when they are at a post for too long. And i can understand .. for it is their only post for the past decade. And if i want to make a fuss, they are on a higher payroll - for one job. I know they can choose to be so for they fulfill the minimum requirement to stay employed.
I guess it was the overloading of work that i fell asleep before 8pm yesterday.. and i knew it.. i was ill this morning. Missed the A&C meeting and also quite a few other appointments just to rest at home. I still have a week more to go before the senior mechanic is back to relief some of my workload.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Fries
Just had a very full dinner.. yet it wasn't the ba zhang that did the job. In fact, i haven't eaten one.. though there is a bunch of them in my fridge.
Was at botak jones (near the SPH one), and had to queue for an hour just to place order. I thought i was very hungry, so i topped up the fries after doubling it.. hahaha.. wrong move. The plate also got no place to put the fries lor..
And i thought i was in some sort of eating competition or what.. (the other plate of fries was mine too..zzz)
Saw someone that looked like someone there.. but that someone isn't that someone.. Suddenly i kept thinking, and wondered what had happened. I think i got scared the other time.. lol.. blame it on my impulse.. maybe i scare more than i got scared.. and i don't know what is what liao lo.. but i won't dare again. Not that i don't want.. is i don't dare.. lol.
Anyway, dinner wasn't as nice as i was full.. and with a full stomach, i can't sleep.. so here is all the nonsense, less that all i know is complaining about the CF.. lol.
Was at botak jones (near the SPH one), and had to queue for an hour just to place order. I thought i was very hungry, so i topped up the fries after doubling it.. hahaha.. wrong move. The plate also got no place to put the fries lor..
And i thought i was in some sort of eating competition or what.. (the other plate of fries was mine too..zzz)
Saw someone that looked like someone there.. but that someone isn't that someone.. Suddenly i kept thinking, and wondered what had happened. I think i got scared the other time.. lol.. blame it on my impulse.. maybe i scare more than i got scared.. and i don't know what is what liao lo.. but i won't dare again. Not that i don't want.. is i don't dare.. lol.
Anyway, dinner wasn't as nice as i was full.. and with a full stomach, i can't sleep.. so here is all the nonsense, less that all i know is complaining about the CF.. lol.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
That Path
Was off to scc at boonlay on sunday, but was feeling very tired.
The instruments were all shifted to the store below and the dressing room converted to the library. At least the store looks like the store, and the library looks like the library. But still, instruments are missing, and many lacking maintenance.
At least, there were many there to help too, and mainly are those few that will stay. And already, some of the in-comings won't be coming. The new arrangement will somehow create quite a bit of challenge since time is no longer on my side. Free days are always a plus.. but with the sole off day from work gone, i can forget about doing a lot of things. As i've promised, it'll be a promise.. it isn't no choice.. it is my choice.
After all the packing and checking of the instruments (which was already done the previous week), it was already noon.. Took a ride on my friend's car after lunch, but i missed the opportunity to alight.. it was so near yet so far.. lol.. blame it on the new viaduct. Alighted at somewhere familiar.. somewhere near an expressway and a park connector. Then there was a kind of nostalgia. Haiz...
It wasn't very far from a busstop where i could have a direct ride home, but i choose to take the path. By then, it was already 3pm. I thought that it would be the last time walking through this path, and maybe, a closure to some thoughts. This time round, i walked alone.. and really, it seems kind of dull. It wasn't the path really.. coz it didn't change. What changed was something else.
The "path".. no prize for guessing the correct location though..
So halfway, i bailed. The weather was very hot.. and i only had 5 hours sleep for the past 2 days. lol.. i guess i must have been quite naive to hope to achieve anything just like that. Found another path that lead to the mainroad that i was very familiar with. And within 30 mins, i was home. Things didn't change any bit.. as expected.
Maybe next time, i just cycle through.. lol..
The instruments were all shifted to the store below and the dressing room converted to the library. At least the store looks like the store, and the library looks like the library. But still, instruments are missing, and many lacking maintenance.
At least, there were many there to help too, and mainly are those few that will stay. And already, some of the in-comings won't be coming. The new arrangement will somehow create quite a bit of challenge since time is no longer on my side. Free days are always a plus.. but with the sole off day from work gone, i can forget about doing a lot of things. As i've promised, it'll be a promise.. it isn't no choice.. it is my choice.
After all the packing and checking of the instruments (which was already done the previous week), it was already noon.. Took a ride on my friend's car after lunch, but i missed the opportunity to alight.. it was so near yet so far.. lol.. blame it on the new viaduct. Alighted at somewhere familiar.. somewhere near an expressway and a park connector. Then there was a kind of nostalgia. Haiz...
It wasn't very far from a busstop where i could have a direct ride home, but i choose to take the path. By then, it was already 3pm. I thought that it would be the last time walking through this path, and maybe, a closure to some thoughts. This time round, i walked alone.. and really, it seems kind of dull. It wasn't the path really.. coz it didn't change. What changed was something else.
The "path".. no prize for guessing the correct location though..
So halfway, i bailed. The weather was very hot.. and i only had 5 hours sleep for the past 2 days. lol.. i guess i must have been quite naive to hope to achieve anything just like that. Found another path that lead to the mainroad that i was very familiar with. And within 30 mins, i was home. Things didn't change any bit.. as expected.
Maybe next time, i just cycle through.. lol..
Saturday, May 23, 2009
A Pinch of Butter
Was at butter fac last night for the first time.
Somehow, it seems like the then MOS, just much smaller. Was crowded inside, and nowhere to move. Then some losers try to stun our martell.. economic downturn until so jia lat meh?
The 1st sip, and already i felt like puking. Didn't like the taste anymore. It was long island, and now martell. Tried to limit the intake due to work the following day, so the last bottle wasn't cleared.
Was home at 5am, and was asleep at 6am. Woke up at 7am for work, and my head was aching. I'm old le.. just one night only, and the whole body like going to fall apart. The one hour of sleep lasted me till 5pm.. but i'll need a lot more to cover. Not this week perhaps.. coz i'll need to be at boonlay on sunday morning.
Since the senior mech was in-camp, workload increased substantially. Exposure and experience increased too. Made a successful quote and also fabrication of power pack and the supporting adapters. Multiple ways, similar outcome, yet different price perhaps. So the mission is to find the most direct and cheapest method. My STM was cleared slightly coz had to remember the location, type and size of the adapters.. well.. though i could have use the computer to fabricate such a programme. Yet there are times where the cpu is not accessible.. so i had to train my brain 1st.
A lot more yet to come.. and i got a few addition into my CRM list. The discount given, items taken, and contacts.. so far, only 2.. lol.. i hoped that i can accumulate a larger customer base, and then, to work towards my goal.
Opportunities are plenty, just that i chose not to. Not that i can't (maybe sometimes i over-estimate myself.. lol..), but coz i don't want (actually i really don't want a lot, even when it is so obvious that it is something i should have). Since so, i stand by the choices i've made, though on the surface i still niam a lot.. yet...
A few depressing things start making me quite sian recently. Some are even not worth the attention. Yet the cumulative effect is there. I start to doubt a lot of things, and even the choices i've made thus far. Some are already proven, yet others, i might never know otherwise. I don't have many pinches of salt really..
Somehow, it seems like the then MOS, just much smaller. Was crowded inside, and nowhere to move. Then some losers try to stun our martell.. economic downturn until so jia lat meh?
The 1st sip, and already i felt like puking. Didn't like the taste anymore. It was long island, and now martell. Tried to limit the intake due to work the following day, so the last bottle wasn't cleared.
Was home at 5am, and was asleep at 6am. Woke up at 7am for work, and my head was aching. I'm old le.. just one night only, and the whole body like going to fall apart. The one hour of sleep lasted me till 5pm.. but i'll need a lot more to cover. Not this week perhaps.. coz i'll need to be at boonlay on sunday morning.
Since the senior mech was in-camp, workload increased substantially. Exposure and experience increased too. Made a successful quote and also fabrication of power pack and the supporting adapters. Multiple ways, similar outcome, yet different price perhaps. So the mission is to find the most direct and cheapest method. My STM was cleared slightly coz had to remember the location, type and size of the adapters.. well.. though i could have use the computer to fabricate such a programme. Yet there are times where the cpu is not accessible.. so i had to train my brain 1st.
A lot more yet to come.. and i got a few addition into my CRM list. The discount given, items taken, and contacts.. so far, only 2.. lol.. i hoped that i can accumulate a larger customer base, and then, to work towards my goal.
Opportunities are plenty, just that i chose not to. Not that i can't (maybe sometimes i over-estimate myself.. lol..), but coz i don't want (actually i really don't want a lot, even when it is so obvious that it is something i should have). Since so, i stand by the choices i've made, though on the surface i still niam a lot.. yet...
A few depressing things start making me quite sian recently. Some are even not worth the attention. Yet the cumulative effect is there. I start to doubt a lot of things, and even the choices i've made thus far. Some are already proven, yet others, i might never know otherwise. I don't have many pinches of salt really..
Friday, May 15, 2009
Everything Wrong
The Grand Mechanic was on medical leave for the past 3 1/2 days. The Elected Manager was on leave too. Suddenly, opportunities were plenty. Plenty of them for me to get it wrong.
Again, i gave out 'freebies' through carelessness, though the amount is just that of a upsized char kway tiao.. but the feeling is quite sian. Pricing dropped again due to competition. I happened to chance upon one of the competitor's website.. and was told that the company had just been taken over by a mnc. Quite a bad situation. And yet still, there seems to be no improvement at the CF. It was as if that this line is woon woon jiat bee hoon.
A week on, and the Senior Mechanic will be going for re-service.. and there'll be one less in the production line.
Friday was a busy day, and it was a record for me at least in the amount of cables being produced. In total, 790 metres being done..Glad that it was the smallest diameter requested. Yet come monday, there'll be over a tonne (and i really mean 1000kg) of hose to drag, measure, cut and crimp. And just that 790 mtr is enough to make the callus 'protected' palm to be filled with blisters, and the blisters to burst before they swell. Till monday.. lol.. i can just see the mood of those in the production line.
Was wrong in the diagnosis of one of the hose.. in the end, the customer had to travel to and fro twice from PSA. It was 1.30pm, and i was just getting ready to have my lunch.. and the customer shouted to me, "吃什么饭!?!" And then the rest were an awful lot of comments that i have no wish to replicate. It was my fault really.. so i just kept quiet while remarks went non-stop. Yet it was so damn depressing to be scolded until like i'm totally worthless. And i don't even have the right to eat.
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From left: Actual sample, correct insert, wrong insert. And i picked the wrong one.. At least it will be memorable.
I have no rights anyway in such a predicament. I am a worker, and it was worse than some of the other employees. And not only that, i still need to cover for those few that already had so little to do. With that, i am convinced that cost savings can easily be achieved. It is only a matter of want or don't want. No contributions, no cut.
The board appointed insurance co. didn't want to process my coverage coz the questionnaire wasn't enough.. but my medical report with TTSH was 10 years thick.. and i don't even know what they want. They didn't know either... lol.. how great.. No wonder life is great, at least for them ba.
Sunday, and i went scc to check some of the instruments with the current QM, and at the same time to clean up the stores a bit. It was super dusty lor..
Was already 7pm when i reached home.. boonlay still is very far.. circle line or no.
Again, i gave out 'freebies' through carelessness, though the amount is just that of a upsized char kway tiao.. but the feeling is quite sian. Pricing dropped again due to competition. I happened to chance upon one of the competitor's website.. and was told that the company had just been taken over by a mnc. Quite a bad situation. And yet still, there seems to be no improvement at the CF. It was as if that this line is woon woon jiat bee hoon.
A week on, and the Senior Mechanic will be going for re-service.. and there'll be one less in the production line.
Friday was a busy day, and it was a record for me at least in the amount of cables being produced. In total, 790 metres being done..Glad that it was the smallest diameter requested. Yet come monday, there'll be over a tonne (and i really mean 1000kg) of hose to drag, measure, cut and crimp. And just that 790 mtr is enough to make the callus 'protected' palm to be filled with blisters, and the blisters to burst before they swell. Till monday.. lol.. i can just see the mood of those in the production line.
Was wrong in the diagnosis of one of the hose.. in the end, the customer had to travel to and fro twice from PSA. It was 1.30pm, and i was just getting ready to have my lunch.. and the customer shouted to me, "吃什么饭!?!" And then the rest were an awful lot of comments that i have no wish to replicate. It was my fault really.. so i just kept quiet while remarks went non-stop. Yet it was so damn depressing to be scolded until like i'm totally worthless. And i don't even have the right to eat.
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From left: Actual sample, correct insert, wrong insert. And i picked the wrong one.. At least it will be memorable.
I have no rights anyway in such a predicament. I am a worker, and it was worse than some of the other employees. And not only that, i still need to cover for those few that already had so little to do. With that, i am convinced that cost savings can easily be achieved. It is only a matter of want or don't want. No contributions, no cut.
The board appointed insurance co. didn't want to process my coverage coz the questionnaire wasn't enough.. but my medical report with TTSH was 10 years thick.. and i don't even know what they want. They didn't know either... lol.. how great.. No wonder life is great, at least for them ba.
Sunday, and i went scc to check some of the instruments with the current QM, and at the same time to clean up the stores a bit. It was super dusty lor..
Was already 7pm when i reached home.. boonlay still is very far.. circle line or no.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Something Wrong
Ate something wrong this morning that caused me the runs.
And another dish end up in my "blocked" list. I should have known better.. early in the morning, and my whole work routine was disrupted.
Once is more than enough. It was quite an awful experience, even surpass that of the lei tea rice.
Maybe next time i buy from the stall with the longest queue..
And another dish end up in my "blocked" list. I should have known better.. early in the morning, and my whole work routine was disrupted.
Once is more than enough. It was quite an awful experience, even surpass that of the lei tea rice.
Maybe next time i buy from the stall with the longest queue..
Monday, May 04, 2009
Quite Some Time
It's been quite some time since i last updated.
Somehow, there isn't much to blog about.. or rather, isn't much that i'm willing to blog about.
Band pract was cancelled.. probably coz of the swine flu.. and suddenly i had so much time on hand. Did a bit of housekeeping, and also some of the follow-up for the CF.
Somehow, there isn't much to blog about.. or rather, isn't much that i'm willing to blog about.
Band pract was cancelled.. probably coz of the swine flu.. and suddenly i had so much time on hand. Did a bit of housekeeping, and also some of the follow-up for the CF.
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