Friday, September 08, 2006
~my jap boss~
My boss.... someone i had a love-hate relationship with... wahaha.... ya... sometimes i hate him, sometimes he's okay... he's definitely not the boss i wish i'll have for the whole of my working life... been working under him for about 10 months now.. more or less know how he wans things to be done.. one thing i can't stand abt him is the way he works... very mood-oriented.. he's got mood swings 3.5 out of 5 days.. worse than me!!! i only have mood swings for a few days in a month... he's been stressing me abt this project i'm handling.. some amt of urgency there, i understand... i also wan to do this project well... at least complete everything until mass pro.. then have other plans if u noe what i mean... hehe... sometimes he's very nagging, we called him the old gramophone that keeps playing the same old song... perfect description~~
this boss of mine has his "cute" side also... really buay tahan when he acts cute... but then he's so funny sometimes... i can't help it but laugh at his actions... see where the love in the love-hate relationship comes from... he's not someone who expresses his feelings well... so many times, we may misunderstood each other, made worse by the language barrier.. still he hopes that we can communicate more with him.. something which i appreciate.. last week, i'm really stuck with what i'm doing.. too many pending issues.. fixed a time with him, discussed for a long time.. casual talk in btw... i noe what he expects from me and he noes what problems and limitations from my side.. he gives advice, as well as niam a bit here and there...
Earlier this week, he did something that really touched me... but only for a few moments... haha.. cannot be taken in by this old fox ok... we told ourselves... haha... was working until quite late on tue... close to 9pm.. tidying up some stuff before gg back.. he came to my seat, stood behind me... i was like: huh? dun come and ask me to report hor... i really wanna go home liao...
then he started talking.. handed me this small pouch in his hand, said: A mechanical engineer should have this, will be very useful.. small but at least it can be of use when u needed it..
i took it from him.. he asked me to open it and see... it was a pocket-sized gadget which opens up to become a pair of pliers, with many small gadgets at the sides of the handles (e.g. screwdriver (plus/minus), tiny blade, filer, ruler)... really multi-purpose... i was like.. wow, nice man... and yesh.. for that moment i was touched... after a while, i left with my colleague and i told him what happened.. he too got sth from my boss.. since he's from electrical side, he got a multimeter.. and we both agreed for that moment, we were touched.. haha...
the next day, the other 2 of my colleagues also got their "gifts"... we all felt that he finally noes how to show his appreciation for us... but we shall not be fooled... wahaha... see how it goes... my team is gg to be down by one soon... again...
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Evelyn winks
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