Of all the inefficient people that I hate, there is one in particular that I hate most now. It changes my view on ‘inefficiency’. Now I think it’s OK to be inefficient, but it’s NOT OK to be inefficient and at the same time with tons of excuses and push the responsibilities to others, and then shoot arrow at their back!
My first day at work after the long holiday was greeted by this fella at work whom I was forced to work with. While I planned to be in the office after lunch hour, a colleague IM-ed me just right before I was about to leave:
“Eh, did H asked something from you and you said no?”
Let’s just name the inefficient fella H. I didn’t know what she was referring to at first, and suddenly something came to my mind. I knew what was that. 30 minutes later one of my superiors, N called and asked. I told him the whole story. It’s not difficult for me to tell, I have extremely good memory when it comes to situation like this, and I can go into extreme details, even every single word during the conversation. The incident happened 2 days a few days before Christmas. I was at the big mall with the new shop thingy again. He came in around dinner hour, when I was busy preparing some items at the counter.
“Oh, I’ve got your email. But I haven’t had the time to reply yet.”
Dude, the email was sent to you at least 2 days ago. So busy ah?
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