Day 1 of Extra...

Today is suppose to be the day when I start to help out S in the Customer Service side. I was supposed to report to her at 1pm after my lunch but as I was out with 3 other colleagues for lunch at Vivocity and one of my colleague, JT, took a rather long time to shop for her things, I only managed to reach back the office at 1.20pm.

I knew I will be back late when I saw JT taking so long with her purchases, so I sms-ed S telling her that I will be late. I guess that is just not enough... As JT and AL whom I lunched with today are from the HR department, we were talking about them trying to hire a temporary help for S. They are talking about paying min. $10 per hr for the person and another colleague, J, and I joked about us applying for the position and staying back after work to earn that extra cash. :P

I was still teasing AL about filling up the time sheet for the work that I will be helping S after we were back in the office. AL went and told S what I was teasing her about and to which S said half jokingly, "You can never know what that girl do. She is supposed to come back at 1pm but she ended up being late. Like that how to fill up her time sheet?"

I started wondering if I will get my reputation smeared after I helped S in her work. This is actually a question that I had up in my mind for quite sometime because I usually lunched with S, J and AL and whenever we chit chat about work stuff during lunch, through past observations, S seems to bad mouth everyone who works with her. Maybe S is really good in her work and unfortunately, people who work with her are not as careful as her in their work or maybe they are really that bad but so far from what we had observed is that S has very high expectations. In a way, I think it's actually kind of scary to work with her directly. I can never expect what will come out from her mouth about me.

Side track a bit... My company US side is really kok up lor... S sent an email last tuesday requesting them to give me authorisation to some databases in our system. Yet I was unable to access those database today. So basically I did nothing much for S today. She just gave me a lesson on what she wants me to help her do. I hope I can start working on them tomorrow...

I hope I won't get my good reputation in my work to be smeared by S after helping her out for 4 weeks. I better start crossing my fingers now...