Relatively shorter week just passed. Was supposed to be busy but end up we slacked quite a bit because most of our work was taken over by commercial contractors. (apparently that was what we were thought). Next week is finally FHLD (formation healthy lifestyle day) whereby a 16km marathon will be organized and we will be deployed to be marshalers. Now, i hope this event will warrant a 3-4 day off reward for us.
COYline life now is getting pretty retarded. Firstly, Offs are so hard to earn and no longer generous. OC is now forcing everyone to clear offs like no one's business because having more than 10 offs is unthinkable. What to do? in the mid year, they always told us that taking off on days with important events is not allowed, and then slowly even the more useless events became 'important events'. this lead to no one being able to clear any off, and guess what, we get stacked up pile of off days and now they're asking, "why everyone got so many off?" the freaking truth is that because we actually do a lot of shit job and work which got us that kind of magnitude of offs and we did not get to clear them!
Ethics is very important everywhere. But now the company is trying to get us to clear half day every friday. we usually book out at a good 1330 on a friday if we take half day which is like only 3 hours at most earlier than the regular 4 plus book out on a friday. this is so not worth it and they jolly well know it. it's worth it for them, but not for us. it's sucking our offs dry when we could spend it on a wednesday morning and book out and sleep at home for one night. there are so much uses for a half day or one day off. Not to mention, 1 day off is effectively a long enjoyable weekend for most of us. No Ethnics, no care for soldiers. What is this. this just violates 2 major core values in the SAF.
today the rest had EFO (early fall out) and left at 1430 hrs. I stayed back to help out another company for their family day event. trainee company which are going to finish their basic 3 week course at seletar before posting out to various companies. I drove my jeep there and stood there for about 4 hours to answer queries from parents and the trainees themselves. And one of the hottest questions is why do our jeeps have poles sticking at a y=x gradient by the side. (slanted, yes). Some thought it was for spearing purposes. and some thought we fought with it. but fortunately, none of them thought it was used to dry clothes outfield.
After much pestering they finally gave in and gave us 1 day off for the event which I find pretty generous. but it was after much pestering. nowadays, they do not acknowledge our effort and reward us with offs just because we have a lot in our account. and a lot is just a general perception. I am one of those with quite little offs. I have 11 days right now, but my friends have 20 days odd and counting. You cannot charge a rich man 10 dollars for a burger just because he is rich and you cannot pay a rich guy less for the same job just because he needs the money less. this is so wrong and unfair!
I guess this weekend will be short. it's late. midnight. fatigue is setting in. I am feeling really hyped up about sleeping. I have much to comment, much more. but i'll leave it for tomorrow.
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