Bad Bad Day at work!
 
All right...I'm here to rave and rant! I just have to!

See...I've been so busy and tired I haven't been able to blog online during my work anymore...all right. I admit that it's not like I SHOULD be...but arrgh...and that's so NOT the point.

This morning, or rather afternoon, I was suppose to help conduct my FIRST campus tour. LUCKILY for me I had another girl with me...and being "more" experienced, (actually she only did it once last week) she was suppose to conduct it whilst I just direct the bus driver around.

Great.

Sounds easy enough. SOUNDS.

What can go wrong right?

yeah...I gave the wrong directions and 1) directed the bus OUT of campus...and 2) Got stuck in a narrow dead-end alley.

With the IRRITATING bus driver giving me dirty looks and scolding me that I should be knowing that there are some roads BIG buses can't go into...and basically saying that I'm dumb.

All right...I probably am.

The bus spent about 10 mins reversing. I must admit that the driver is pretty cool...to be able to reverse so much.

After a very nervous 10 mins...we got out and I simply directed the bus on the route that i'm familiar with. Bus A1 route. Luckily YJ could "entertain" the Korean guests by making small chat and yeah...they are basically very nice. Even the NTU prof who were bringing the grp ard and providing translation. I think he could see that I was gonna cry so he tried to be patient with me.

But STILL...i felt like SHIT.

Came back to office and IMMEDIATELY set out to write a "remorse letter"...to apologise to all the the department.

It goes like this...

To whom it may concern,
 
I am Shuhui and I am here to apologise for my incompetency with regards to guiding the tour bus on the campus tour. I was not familiar with the route especially near NUH and PGP, therefore I made the bus turn into a small lane and was stuck in the dead end for about 10 minutes.
 
I was lucky for the person-in-charge was good-natured and did not blame me too much but I could sense the displeasure of the bus driver.
 
I have already apologised to the Korean delegates and I hereby apologise to all who has been putting in effort into planning this visit.
 
Please accept my deepest apologies.
 
Sorry for any inconvenience caused or any "unhappiness" that might have arised from this unfortunate event.
 
Yours sincerely,
Shuhui
 
Ok...I admit I was too drama.

After I came back to the office from lunch...I was "surrounded" by "concerned" colleagues telling me that it's all right and all.

BUT...I chose to forward the email to ALL in the dept....INCLUDING my senior manager.

Win liao...Cos' she was NOT supposed to know...

Great.

Now a series of things are happening.

I just heard that the perm staff here is supposed to conduct a "teaching campus tour" for ALL Student Associates in International Relations Office, or worse still...to open up this "course" to others!

The perm staff is complaining.

Bwahahaha...what a chain reaction I have created!

This sucks.

BIG TIME.

To think that I wanted my senior manager to write a reference letter for me so that I can go Shanghai for internship.

I must be the STUPIDEST person alive...to expose my own mistakes.

But I just wanted to pre-mpt any "scoldings" or "lectures".

WHATEVER.

It's just a sucky day.