Clueless Diva

My friends have been teasing me about the fun reports I have been blogging. All that fun having yum cha and having a good time with colleagues. Did I really come to Sydney to work? Am I sent here just to have a good time?

I beg to differ.

Typical work day as follows:

1) Reach office at about 0830. Lynn will usually wander to her favourite cafe near the office to get her daily mocha fix. If I am not on reception duty, I would probably go up to the office to swtich on the PC to download about 20 emails from Management and Chairman. Usually I would need to spend about an hour pacifying the management and chairman by replying them and assuring them that the airline will not collaspe in the midst of the night.

2) Expenses Claims for Company Secretary, Chairman, Directors and Managers. This would probably take half a day as my work will be interupted by colleagues asking for petty cash claims, why the photostat machine does not work, how to use the fax and my general manager needing me to forge 'Certified True Copy' stamps on his papers and binding thousand and one legal documents. Of course not including couriering documents and boxes within Sydney, Interstate and internationally.

3) At about noon time, depending on who is on reception duty, we need to rotate mail run. We have got to collect the mail from the post office, drop some mail at the Gardeners Road Office, go to the Hangar to distribute Interport mails, get some more mail from the post box downstairs in front of the office and sort the mail. Sorting the mail ain't an easy task. You have got to stamp date receipt on the mails, sort them and distribute them. Mail run alone would probably take up about one to two hour of your time.

4) After a hasty lunch, it's back to work with OCB travel request forms for Directors, Managers and Company Secretary. As we have offices all over NSW, managers travel frequently to make sure all things work, so I have to make flight, accomodation and car arrangements.

5) Of course, as I am in charge of the Corporate Apartments, I have to make sure the apartment bookings by other interstate managers to the Sydney apartments are well managed. And clean too. And everything from the TV to the microwave is working perfectly. I even need to oversee the rent payments personally myself to ensure that we are not kicked out by the landlord.

6) If we are still not busy enough, there will be plenty of opportunities to waste more time as afternoons are usually full of Flight Operations and VIPs having meetings in the Board Rooms, and hence the need for us to make countless coffees, teas and doing lunch or tea time catering.

7) And if we are still not busy enough, we have to run errands for the Managers to get this and get that. Now.

8) And oh, since we are all supermen and superwomen, we have to be bitches and chase Departmental Managers for reports owing to the Chairman as well. Now.

9) And lastly, if we were ever so free and lucky, we could get off work after 8 or 9, just in time to crawl into a Chinese restaurant which is taking its last order to whisper to them our dinner orders, eat quietly and order 2 more takeaway for the 2 bosses who are still in the office fire fighting until the wee hours of the night.

If this process is repeated day after day for 5 days, are we not deserving of a good weekend when it approaches?