Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

Apologies for the extremely rude and irresponsible post below.

I sincerely am sorry if that last post has offended anybody. That geek has now been slaughtered and forcibly shoved back into his rightful place watching me apologise. Yeah, I am sorry for too many things these days. The server, MINDEF’s policies; I even apologise that they couldn’t receive their money because they themselves neglected to update their particulars.

The stress is getting to some of us today. I won’t mention specifics, but some of us lost it. Including me. After a particularly tough call, I came off the phone and shot off a load of famous phrases commonly used in the SAF, and had half the office staring back at me.

I went to the pantry and continued swearing, while one of my female colleagues came and tried to calm me down. I knew I had read the books on letting it all go and all that, but those theories are hard to put into practice when you are steaming in the heat of the moment. We chatted for sometime, and I forced myself to control the thoughts, and let go of the anger.

It helps knowing that you are the thinker of your thoughts. I focused on controlling my thoughts, and eventually got myself to calm down enough to continue. After some time, we went back to work.

I wasn’t the only one who had irate callers. Just next to me, I had another female colleague whom suddenly turned around and told me after a few minutes of frowning, “I think I am going to get a complaint from him.” She didn’t really want to take that call anymore, so I tried to help out by handling the caller.

He wasn’t as bad as the first one, but it was still enough to shake me badly. Thankfully, I let go of it pretty soon, and went on with my life after he hung up. Rumours had it that the next CSO who called him back for follow up found him in an extremely jovial mood. Even stranger was when my boss did the follow up to the previous guy and found him in a relatively happy mood too.

Did I just absorbed their negative energy or something? I feel like a punching bag.

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