This is Not My Day
By aylim14
@aylim14 (501)
Philippines
October 16, 2009 8:53pm CST
Waking up at 6am to finish something at work, when i usually wake up around 730am.
Went to the office, finished the things i have to do, but with a lot of spills and mistakes while doing it. Was thirty minutes later than my estimated time for completion.
Went to field work, bought materials needed, good thing i have money with me because i was not given a petty cash.
However, i have to wait around 10 minutes for my change because they do not have enough change for the money i paid.
Then, off to my field work, and after getting stressed out, not to mention being under the heat of the sun and almost doing the job itself, the person i was with kept on being complacent and acting as if the whole work is supposed to be done the entire day.
Just a brief background, we were suppose to "do" 4 names. It's a bit hard to explain in detail but it usually takes 15-20 names in just 2 hours.
So imagine my plight for having done only 3 names in over 4 hours already. Not to mention the other one which i just left for that person to do because i cannot stay anymore. I have many pending works at my desk, and as i was driving to the office, one of the suppliers called and was asking for the the payment already. You see, we have a new account with this supplier and i am handling it personally, and i do not want to impart the idea/feeling that we delay our payments or is not concern about our agreements/promises.
Then i had my lunch at 3pm. So hungry that i cannot think straight anymore without thinking about food. So i decided to eat - fish, shrimp and rice. I have three containers, one for the rice, one for the fish and another for the shrimp.
Half-way through the meal, while typing something in my laptop, because i was working while eating (so much time wasted, should have been finished latest at 12nn on my field work), i accidentally hit my container for the rice and if fell on my lap - meaning rice was all over my lap and have to put it back in using my shirt. But there are still a lot of rice left, so got a newspaper and scraped it all there. But i am still hungry, so after a while, i hit my sauce container and the sauce landed on the carpeted floor and on my left arm sleeve. the smell!
After office hours, there i was supposed to meet a client at 6pm, but have to extend my patience for an hour an a half just to be able to meet up with this person. After the meeting, while driving back home, an inconsiderate, undisciplined, and insensitive bus driver was in front of me. imagine, only two lanes are allowed in that portion of the road. One is already allotted for the public vehicles while the other one (outer for the private vehicles). He, being in the private lane was already bad enough, imagine while driving the uneducated driver suddenly turned right and occupied two lanes, so meaning none of the cars from both lanes can pass through. But what's bad enough was that he stayed there for around 2 minutes despite me and other cars honking horns with him, and as i was able to pass i looked at the driver (i drive with my windows rolled out) the guy was smiling back. no more words to say.
This is not my day.
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5 responses
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
17 Oct 09
Oh my goodnes aylim! What a day to remember!
Your description though was so impressive and I wonder if just writing all down helped you to put it behind you
It often seems to be that when we are in a hurry with so many things to get done in a short space of time, when one thing goes wrong it starts off a chain reaction and it doesn't end there, everything goes wrong all at once!
I hope that you slept after this and that your tomorrow will be a much more fruitful day and that another one like the one you describe here doesn't happen for a long. long time!
@aylim14 (501)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
thankfully, it hasn't happened to me yet..and will just continue to hope and pray that it really would not happen to me, nor to anyone for that matter. of course, a bad day for one of us would mean less a day of happiness for that person. And we all want to be happy right?
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
26 Oct 09
Indeed we do! If we are happy then we can raise a smile to those who have a reason to be sad and maybe we can cheer them up a little bit too
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
17 Oct 09
hello Aylim,
That must have been the worst day of your life, i agree most of them are undisciplined even though i know they've instructed not to do that. let me tell you a story before i get to respond to that topic.
I was working in the Call Center once and almost everynight i had trouble that i might get late and always running because the bus always stops at every single corner getting as many passengers as they can. once, i told the passenger to hasten it up but he drove it even slower.that was alike almost three times a week since the bus is a bit less expensive compare to taxi.
NOw, here's my suggestion. when you see that kind of attitude of any other bus driver, remember they have this sign that says "hows my driving" then since you're cell phone is still working. always text this mumber.
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board
East Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City 1100
Philippines
Tel. No. +632 426 2515 | +632 925 7191 | +63 921 4487777
URL http://www.ltfrb.gov.ph
that's a way to get rid of them...i do that before....
@aylim14 (501)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
yes the number's always there,but does it work? i mean, reporting to LTFRB? if that's the case then i wouldn't think twice about doing it. i mean, have videos and photos to prove my claim, but just rreally having second thoughts about reporting it. since it's still government and you know how it works there..
@SACHIN2708 (1634)
• India
17 Oct 09
HI well my name is sachhin agarwal .I am business man and my business is going concern well and we use to sale light on festival at high level means retail and wholsale and when on festival we use to sale those atractive lights that moment i use to get so so busy with alots of customer so this year I sold lights and usallly got busty with customers so one customer came to my shop and he took a lots of time to choose that light and suddenly i could not see that when he stolen my money and ran away i could not do any thing so dear i think that day is not my day