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Lessons from Work
Friday, June 27
Lesson #1:
Pick a cubicle (if you can) that is far away from the door.
Otherwise you'll find yourself getting up every 15 minutes to open the door for colleagues who forgot / lost / spoilt / cut / lent / etc their access card. Or for those who are lazy to dig around for their card / no free hands / looking for someone etc. You get the idea.
Once in a while you'll open the door for weird foreign workers gesticulating wildly and spend 5 minutes gesticulating wildly yourself before figuring out that they want to come in to clean the aircons.
The guy from the IT Department will suddenly come by and you'll spend another 5 minutes complaining about how slow the Internet is today; the cleaning lady drops in and she bitches to you for 10 minutes about her boss who just reprimanded her even though she's cleaned the toilets THRICE today.
Then you decide you need a cup of coffee and find your friend from Human Resources in the pantry. You spend the next 10 minutes deciding on where to go for dinner after work.
Coffee mug in hand, you go back to your cubicle, sit down, and someone knocks on the door. She's forgotten where she left her access card.
It's not good for productivity, especially when you realise you've spent the last 45 minutes (add up the figures - they tally!) trying to reply to an email so yeah, pick a cubicle far away. Far, far away.
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