I Drive? The other day my boss went on a 1day business trip. It was perfect, no one nagging at me, no one annoying me, it was simply beautiful. After work, I went home, prepared dinner, watched a bit TV then went to pick up my husband. While waiting for him, I was looking around [...]
8:30 a.m. The bell rings, I open the door, it’s the building door keeper.He: there’s a mail package for you, it’s been lying downstairs since last week. I thought I’d finally bring it to you if you’re ignoring it.I: sorry, but you know I never ignore our mail. Anyway, maybe I didn’t notice it for [...]
I sent an email to one of our international branches with the subject: “URGENT: Shipment Cancelled”And wrote: “I would like to inform you that our client CANCELLED the shipment ref. Nr……, so we no longer need you to proceed with shipping procedures. I confirm herewith that cancellation of shipment is final, therefore you may use [...]
2 weeks ago a client called and asked for an original document they claim they’ve mailed to us earlier. The document was highly important and it needed to be found as soon as possible for an urgent matter. After the call:Day 1: I checked all the folders in my office concerning this client, went to [...]
I’ve been working really hard lately, and during my one year in my current job I’ve trained myself into various software applied by the company I work for. As I was told, I’ve been doing a great job so the manager in the mother company put my name on the list of employees to go [...]
Each year the manager of each branch has to complete a performance evaluation form to evaluate his employees and give the results to the general manager of the mother company to decide who will stay, who will get fired, who deserves a raise… and so on. Since I completed a year, I went through this [...]
Since I’ve been so unhappy with the work pressure I had last year, specially the last couple of months of 2004, I thought I’ll begin this year with a mean work personality. I wont accept more work. I wont allow myself to stay for extra hours, and I will NOT accept my boss doing nothing [...]
I sent an email to our branch in another country. I wrote the following:Please ship package by air to (company name) in (country name) as soon as possible. 10 minutes later I get the following reply:Eman, please advise company and country name. Also confirm whether we should ship by air, or sea!!
Since our company is a branch of an international company, every month I have to do 4 different types of financial reports to be sent to the mother company. As for the local issues like tax control for example, we hired a professional accountant who comes twice a month. He was so busy this month, [...]
The other day I got an invitation to a Ramadan night party from a hotel our company dealt with only twice in the whole past year. The great thing about the invitation is that they considered me -and not the manager- the company’s official representative. Anyway, the invitation was for one person, so I called [...]
