Dude, where's our van?

As I drove into the office, I saw one of my tech standing outside the door, looking bored. So, I asked him what's wrong and where is the van. Normally, the van would be parked nearby the office as the parking area outside the office would be full the previous day due to the Karaoke patrons. But since today is a Monday, the van should be parked in front.

"Van's missing, Boss."

And then everything went nuts. I went up to the office, put my stuff on the table and activated my Notebook. I saw my two other technicians sitting on the their tables doing their usual morning nothings, as if nothing has happened. So, I went down and told the tech that I would be driving my car around the blocks to see if the van happens to be nearby or not.

By the time I came back, Boss is already in the office and start to take stock of what is missing in the van. We worked out the list and assessed our loss. In the meantime, I chided one of my tech because they always liked to leave customer's place early, dump the van in the company and leave everything in it. So, business have to go one and I gave the Hyundai's key to the younger tech and told him to move the remaining tools and ladder into it. Yep, back to the old days of being the taxi driver again.

Then I went back to my table and discovered my Notebook hanged. As emotions were running high, I banged onto the table.

And as they say, "All Hell broke loose"

The young tech thought I was pissed off at him and challenged me while the Boss though everyone was against him and he scolded everyone. I thought the young tech was out of line and went to him. But eventually, other techs calmed us down. In the end, I took the voluntary forced leave to cool off. And then, I asked the young tech, what happened as I only banged the table because of the notebook. He refused to answer and I asked again. My Boss, thought we're going to start a fight and so, we were suspended for two days. Fuck, man.

So, my Boss told me to pack everything and leave the office.

But because the young tech threw the Hyundai's remote to the ground,
the area where the LED was, was destroyed. So, after using the clips,
luck was on my side and I can repair it. But Boss said not to do anything
by just leave the office while he gave me the spare remote.

So now, not only am I angry for everything this morning, I will be given a suspension letter later too. Wow, a suspension letter for asking a question. But knowing my Boss, he will put it as banging on the table.

And on my way out, he said, "Can you go to this customer on the way ?"

I stared at him for a full 5 seconds, my mouth twisted as if to say, "Are you joking? You suspended me and now you want me to work?"

And with all controlled emotions and force I culd muster, I said, "OK"

Now, what can I do with one and a half day of nothing?

Note: Already my Wife's not speaking to me for days due to the Seremban work which stretched everyone's wits. And now I am having second thoughts about attending the company's Annual dinner which extended the invitation to my Wife and kids. I can say, that the Seremban work caused all this since we were working under pressure to complete it within days.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i hope you're ok

CFC said...

Yep, had a talk with my Wife and this time, she is supportive of my ventures into Electronics. And there are plans ahead in the near future once I sit down and plan and also see how much I can save (after I buy a Nokia 5800, if I can) for this.