Work Woes?

Surprised to see another post from me? Well, there's a slight change of plan. We (colleagues & i) will be driving up to Geelong this evening - meeting in the office @ 6.30pm - which gives me the opportunity to update my blog during the day! Indeed those who are faithful in checking my blog (despite being told last week was my last update) are blessed! Hahaha!!

Just a quick short one (i hope)... This week was really a trying week for me - both physically & mentally... Work has certainly speed up this week as we prepare for the Airshow. Majority of my time was spent at the warehouse & loading bay where i had to locate the exhibition goods, label them, & monitor the loading of exhibition goods on 4 big trailer trucks. It was long hours of standing, running around, telling the forklift & truck drivers what to do. Each truck would take approx. 3hrs to complete the load! Usually by the time i'm home, it was around 8pm & i would be so so so tired...

I wrote about Work privileges in earlier post but it's time to face the reality of working in a Fairs & Exhibition dept! NO FUN!! Gone were the days of sitting in the comfort of an air conditioned office, trouble shooting problems through emails & phone calls, have long 1-2 hrs of lunch breaks, numerous opportunities of surfing the internet and chatting on msn with friends, get paid for all the above! Now? It's about standing in the sun/rain subject to the mercy of weather condition, solving problems by running around the warehouse (no more let the fingers do the walking... ha!), 15mins (max!) of lunch break, no time to check emails not to mention surfing internet or msn chat!, still get paid but no OT pay for the long hours! Mind you, the above are just the beginning of pre-event preparation work... The worst has yet to come!

When i was back in the office after loading the last trailer around 7pm, my colleagues said that by the end of the Airshow event, i would have picked up all the curse & swear words - which are expressive words commonly used in this industries... The fact is, all the Aussies & Germans in my dept, all the forklift drivers & truck drivers, all the people i would come in contact with when working in the Fairs & Exhibition dept use the 4-letter word as punctuation! Every sentences are filled with #!@*!!!

I pray i will not be under their influence & put under any forms of pressure to utter these words! To be honest? I know this is tough - very tough! Yet, i'm determined not to conform to them, i want to be different, i want Christ likeness to shine through & God help me please...