Staying late in the office.....

Today I was at the office with another colleague till 11pm, crunching numbers and clearing backlog orders that we have in the order management pipeline. Yes, that's my new role when I joined back this company and frankly I'm not enjoying it...totally. I'm grateful to see my colleagues and I'm happy to be back to a MNC which is purely a MNC by nature, not just MNC by name. 

In this new role, we shared the same pain with sales folk, trying to hit month end, quarter end and financial end sales forecast but then, we are not on commission base, even if they hit their forecast target. We are just merely an operation folks who are helping them to achieve their goal. I know, I sounded negative tonight...but what's new?

This morning I had a tough time handling questions from the country MD. No matter what I do, to him it's not good enough or it's not fast enough. It's always not good enough. I knew for a fact the his job is to push people to get what he wants. i respect that and i don't blame him, tho I bitched about him all the time. The truth is, in my honest opinion, the one that i am pissed off would be our management team. i personally think that our management team did not helped us to set the right expectation to our business stakeholders, especially my manager's manager. In front of them, he smiled and agreed to all their request. At the back he told us to push back and managed our stakeholders. Hypocrite right?

Anyways, it's almost 12am now and I'm sitting down on the bed, writing this post while waiting for my hair to dry before I sleep. Deep down I am counting down the last remaining days in April because I'm really looking forward towards May when all ths quarter end craze is over. I'm still wondering how long will I stay in this job? One thing for sure, if my colleague resign, my letter of resignation would be next in the queue. I don't think I can manage this portfolio all by myself. Today, she is fronting and shielding all unnecessary bullets away from hitting me. Otherwise, I would have been long dead.

Guess time to sleep now. 7 more working nightmares to go....

Wish me luck......