I want 8-5.
They sometimes tell me that I keep testing the system. I probably am testing the system on a daily basis, but it's not like the system isn't testing my patience.
They're so media-conscious that sometimes it hurts being part of this huge organization. I fear for my life typing all this out but sometimes I really just want to Serve And Fuck off.
Take for example the big day that's coming up on 3rd July 2011. They're going to put up a video of naive people writing letters back to their parents--letters that their parents will never receive because they didn't think in advance that writing in the rain with mud on their hands will make the envelopes dirty, and that SingPost doesn't send dirty letters.
They call it a "small glitch". I call it a major fuck up. With the training they've received and the number of years they have ahead of us, they should know better than this. To dismiss this whole event, which reeks of a scam, as a little problem is quite demeaning to the entire experience of the shit they put us through.
Ask us if we're OK with this screw up. What can we say? Can we say that we're very unhappy? Can we request to get our letters back so that we can pass it to our parents personally seeing as SingPost doesn't want to do the job for us? Can we express our anger in a constructive way? Would anything budge? Would the system budge for the lowest life forms in the island?
They just want to appear like they care.
I tire of this. If our parents don't get the letter, it's because you guys screwed up. If you guys screwed up on your job, don't stop at being (or seeming) apologetic. Do something more practical. It didn't happen, so don't include it in the video and make it seem like you made such a valiant effort in ensuring that every single member of the organization had the chance to exercise his/her rights.
This is such a scam. This makes me rethink my life perspectives. This makes me want to test the system even more just to see how long I can get away with it for. Whatever training they've received, whatever hell they've been through, whatever discomfort they've lived with, hasn't taught them one thing that's most important in life:
Common sense.
I just want to get an 8-5 vocation and slack my remaining 20 months away.
-- 6/24/2011 08:06:00 PM
