Pre Holiday Blues
Biangz.
It’s been a while since I’m gonna be away from work for 10 days, I nearly forgot about the Pre-Holiday Trauma a 933 DJ has to go through.
Checklist A:
1.Inform the whole world your intention to take leave. Check that your leave period doesn’t overlap with person(s) with similar duties. Eg: Lingzhi and Weibin cannot go on leave at the same time; Peifen and I cannot be absent on the same day.
2.Apply for leave via Intranet.
3.Inform the whole world your electronic leave application is approved.
4.Send an email to the person(s) directly involved. In my case, it’s Peifen (XianGe) and Mary (Global Chart). Got to leave clear and concise instructions on what to do, what has been done, what has been not done. Yeap, rather spend some time on a long email than getting long distance calls to clarify.
5.Send emails to the person(s) indirectly involved. Request for their kind assistance to pass on all relevant programming materials to the person(s) directly involved. It’s also telling them: I’m on leave, so you better stop bugging me.
6.CC all correspondence to the BOSS, so that if something goes wrong, the BOSS doesn’t come after me, but invites the person(s) directly involved and/or the person(s) indirectly involved for a tea session in her cosy office.
7.Settle the admin work. In my case, it’s generating the playlist. Double biangz here. All your nicely decorated letters usually have a light coat of dust on them due to the many stages in handling. You->Mailbox->Mail Collector->Post Office-> (I’m not very sure how many phases there are in the P.O.) -> P.O. Box 933->Admin person from MediaCorp Radio-> Admin person from 933->Xian Ge Pigeon Hole. 1 letter = 1 light coat of dust. How about 10 letters, 100 letters, 1000 letters? I usually generate 3 playlists a day. And now. Whoa. An entire week’s!
8.Settle the recordings. Yeap, there’re some recorded programmes. So it means camping in the either freaking warm or freaking cold recording studio. You either sweat like a pig or risk getting hypothermia facing the microphone.
9.Scan your emails, in case a last minute arrow shoots by. Don’t geh-geh never see and hop your way out of Singapore. There’s this thing called Return Receipt! Which idiot invented this! *Note I just spent 90 minutes at the computer after kana shot by a last minute arrow. *applies bandage and continues sorting letters*
10.Think and think and think.. Anything more?
11.Think again. Really nothing?
12. Oh! Set the out-of-office auto reply! *I once forgot to turn it off and one month later, someone confronted me with the email: Absent for so long? You kana retrenched is it?
13.Anything else? *Voices in me shouting: NO LAH NO LAH. Get your arse out lah
14.Okie, Bye!…..
So you see, the pre holiday trauma has hit me. I’m sure it applies to most working adults yeah?
Unless you’re the buddy of a friend of mine, who has a completely different checklist.
Checklist B
1.Apply for leave via Intranet.
2.Bye!
Not long after….. Boss and Collegues: WTF!
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