102.7??? don't we hate this number? it was the price of gas from this morning. and it is still climbing. so they say in 5 yrs, the number is gonna double. man... as much as i love my baby 4X4, she is "eating" too much. i need a bigger paycheck just to compensate for the gas.
ppl at work love to waste our time. they did it again today which got me mad. today i started on a task that had been sitting on my desk for 3 days. it was an easy assignment: all I needed to do was to find a natural sweetener to replace the artificial one in the standard; made up samples and product specs, and sent them out. easy. let’s see… took me 30 min to make a blend for trials, 15 min to find the right natural sweetener and its level; another 5 min to try it in chocolate flavor; 45 min to make 8 individual serving bottles all packed and sealed; 20 min to type out the product specs and were ready to ship out. that was like a little more than 2 hrs of work. sounds pretty effective, eh? but NOOOOO… just when I had everything ready to go, i got this forwarded email from
someone with more info regarding this project. apparently, the natural sweetener i used is not legal in australia! first of all, NOBODY told me this product is going to aussie. second of all, the damn email was dated back 3 days ago!! so thnx for forwarding it
now. this means my 2 hrs just went to waste because I couldn’t ship out the samples. then i saw 10 more new formulas on my desk waiting for me to formulate. i’m sorry but i guess your stupid assignment would have to wait now because I have gotten new priorities...
and so i was sitting at my desk typing formulas (they’re all multivitamin formulas which i hate because they are LOOONNNG). i was busy calculating something when suddenly my computer froze. normally, i would save my work every 10 min or so, but i was focusing too much on my calculator obviously for a very long time. so i was like "SHIT!" and within the next 5 sec, all i could hear was ppl screaming, swearing, pounding on their desks, stomping on the floor. evidently, everyone didn’t save in time. all i could do was laugh hopelessly but in my head i was thinking… hmmm… when did I last save? and i was about to find out…
the stupid system tried to reconnect itself automatically, but failed. seemingly, the whole system was DOWN, even our telephones were down (jeez… what’s wrong with this place?) Since most ppl can't do a thing w/o computer, this gave them the perfect chance to walk around, talk to other ppl, and slack off. as for us - we kept ourselves busy by checking production lines, a little trip to the warehouse, and reading food magazines. we were finally able to log on after 1 hr.
oh… the formula that i was working on - i couldn’t even find it. which means either it went MIA mysteriously or i didn’t save it from the start. i guess the latter makes more sense...
it was only one-third done and it “died” before i gave it a file name.
this is what i call - a day when u should have done a lot but in fact NOTHING WAS DONE.
