Since the month is about to
come to an end
decided to blog about it earlier
before my blog is transformed
into a blog solely exist
for the purpose of disseminating
the craze for Wang Kai
the month started off real bad
lost at least 6 hours of work
simply because I accidentally
pressed the power button
so my PC got rebooted
without saving the file before hand
there wasn’t auto-save function
more importantly the deadline
was within 1 hour
All Gone X Accidentally: Starting Silly
the month continued to
get darker and darker
having received a few feedbacks
on minor yet fatal errors
in my work
like even myself
can’t forgive myself
for making such errors
not to mention my project managers
and the clients whom they
have to be directly facing
since then
i had a rather quiet week
which pointed in two directions
it’s time to take a break
since I had been busy
since late December
on the other hand
it felt scary
like I have been fired already
banned from being enlisted
for any future project
then it got slightly better
as I got job flow
on constant basis again
and i actually rejected
a few large volume tasks
although these tasks could have
significantly bring up my sales figure
because
i don’t want to take the risk of
taking large volume tasks for
contents I am not familiar with
as well as getting myself stressed out
during the festive season
where I got tons of
other household matters to deal with
I guess the worst
has already passed
few days back
i got a translation request
for a minor task of 170 words
once confirmed,
was waiting for the file to come in
as I wanted to get it done ASAP
to realize that
there were two files in the folder
one with 170 words and
another one with bigger volume
at least 2000 I think
so I screen captured it
asking for double confirmation
for the large file as
it was not previously mentioned
and I got confirmation
to proceed and deliver the file
by end of the day
so I spent another 3 hours
working on the file
and delivered it
next day
when the purchase order came in
only 170 words were billed for
that can’t be true
the manager had probably missed out
when I sent out a reminder’s email
the reply got me shock
when the manager told me that
it was a duplicated file that
i have worked on
and (s)he only realized it
when the other translator
sent the same file
it got me quite frustrated because
in the first place
i did ask for confirmation if
i should proceed with the file
and the reply was something like
yes.. 170 words cover both files
as I have worked on a duplicated file
and i assumed the matter
will be skipped all together
if I didn’t send the reminder’s email?
there was ample time
to send me an email explaining
and i probably would have said it’s okay
this sounded like
a case study for a public relation crisis
- you didn’t stand out and explain
and it’ll make thing worse
when the other stakeholder finds out
- the explanation/apology
(promise to solve = no solution)
provided was up to no good
- your stakeholder had
taken extra step which could have
prevented the whole thing
in the first place
anyway
i choose to accept the
no-solution’s solution as
there’s nothing I can do anyway
and i would still like to
seek for long term collaboration
from the same company
this person is rather new
in the position
like less than 3 months?
wouldn’t want to do the harm
so this is how i kicked started
the Lunar New Year break
i guess i have been
heavily brainwashed by
those festive advertisements
on forgiving and harmony
and i actually
didn’t tell a single person
except you regarding this
although I was quite mad
in the first place
the scare for job security
was real though
at the same time
i have spent tons of money
since the year started on
- festive groceries
- apparels for the family
- 3 sets of flight tickets
- Red packets for parents (soon!)
which didn’t really tally
with the sudden plunge in income
and I would be travelling
for the 1/3 of February
finally got to know the feeling
of a particularly familiar scene in series
pretending to go work whereby
one has already got fired from work
or lost the job
i thought it looked ridiculous
but now it isn’t