As promised yesterday...

Hi, below is the original comments I wrote for Guillotine (the would-you-shut-up guy I unfortunately have to work with):

Guillotine has been very responsive but, unfortunately, he often comes back a bit prematurely. Many times he would reply with an overwhelmingly long bullet-list of facts, which may not be relevant to one's original question. This proves to be frustrating and makes one wonder if the question has been misunderstood.

To be fair, I am quite sure that Guillotine has good knowledge of all the systems and core applications and considerable efforts must have been exerted in creating those long lists of bullets. More to-the-point and client-oriented responses on his end will definitly let the company better harness his business/systems knowledge.

There is also room for improvement for Guillotine to be more discrete and timely as to disseminating vital information to co-working parties.

Of course, I changed the comments in the last minute, aware of the possibility that he may figure out who write those words. The final submission is as follows:

More to-the-point and client-oriented responses.

More discrete and timely as to disseminating vital information to co-working parties.

What an anticlimax! Well, outspoken as I am, I shall not burn the bridge behind me.

This evening home, I worked on my appeal to the IRD about my tax payable. After 2 hours of feverish tax code cramming and Excel cracking, I am able, if IRD accept my case, to bring down my tax payable by 40+%. That's the most productive use of my financial knowledge, second only to my mortgage payment modeling workbook (yeah, I do have a mortgage). I'll fax my forms to the authority and cross my fingers.

Today my immediate teammate (yeah, I do work in a teams) told me she's calling time on the firm and has started to look for a new job. What a bombshell! You don't tell people your plan to quit when your teammate is buying you coffee in the afternoon! I was too tired to react. I know she has been frustrated with her job (partly due to me as a teammate, but I already warned her in the interview). But still as she confided it to me , it was and still is a bit of a ... shock! As I walked back to my place this evening, after alighting the bus, I felt so overwhelmed - all the information and politics in the office. So much I wish I could quit too!