Strange Restrictions

After much grueling, I managed to survive my 4th work day of the week. One more work day to go before my weekend, coz I’m not on Saturday duty this week. It’s surprising how fast two weeks of work has just passed. Suddenly, I realized that I have been working for half a month already.

Today’s work was relatively fine, though I discovered through our department tasking chart that I’m actually holding a portfolio that is 60% more than what my fellow executives are handling! Although I could guess that this was possible, I didn’t expect the proportion to be 60% more than the others! That’s a lot!

Work aside, there were a few weird happenings today. Firstly, my colleague & I were quietly warned by the receptionist that we are not allowed to help ourselves to the workshop refreshments until all the workshop participants have eaten their fill & gone back into the training room. Ok, so took note of that.

Secondly, my supervisor told me that I’m discouraged from putting Christian related phrases as my PC ‘3D Text’ screen saver. The words of my ‘3D Text’ screen saver were – God is our refuge. Of course, it’s definitely Christian related, it’s not like I’m going around evangelizing to everybody. It’s just my screen saver to remind myself that God is taking care of me!

My supervisor also told me to tell my other Christian colleague to remove those Christian words from her PC screen saver. Her words were – Jesus is the way. When I told her, she was very surprised & a bit unhappy coz it’s not stated in the rules or regulations that an individual is not allowed to quote Christian phrases as their PC screen saver.

In the sense, I felt like it was like a bit of persecution, but in a tactful & gentle manner. I thought I could use it as a reminder to myself, as well as a possible testimony that I’m a Christian. Who knows… one day, someone may even ask me about Christianity! But oh well… so now my PC screen saver is a smiley face.

On the bus journey home, I suddenly received a call from my supervisor & his first sentence was, “How come you are not in the office?” I was taken aback. It was already past 7pm… is it wrong to go home? Other departments go home at 5:30pm sharp & since I started work in SNEF, I have never left the office on time before! Besides, it’s already after 7pm… even if I wanted to continue to work; I still had to take my dinner, right? I was so shocked…

I understand that my supervisor’s work is piling up a lot… & my work tasks are also getting more. And with occasional full day meetings with companies & unions (like tomorrow), there is very little time to clear work. But everyone still needs a rest, right? Especially since tomorrow is going to be a long day of meetings in the morning & afternoon. I wonder how much work I can get to do tomorrow, with all these meetings. But these meetings are necessary, yet it adds on more work to be done. What to do… this is the nature of working on projects.