Payback

Okay, folk, I think this post will be relatively longer than my usual posts these days ...

This incident happened last week in the office:

I came into office earlier, hoping to ease a bit of my work in the morning. Cos there was this meeting which was supposed to take place at 10.30am. It was usually a very casual weekly meeting with just 2 other colleagues to talk about forecast and demand for the week. But this time, 2 more persons were invited to sit in, as we were hoping for more contribution.

So I rushed a couple of reports, hoping that the information would be useful during the discussion, thereby pushing away a number of other duties. Then, at 10.45am, noticing that I had not been asked to meet up, I went over to the organiser's table to ask him about it.

She: Hey, aren't we supposed to have the meeting now?

He: *very surprised look* Oh! We already had it! At 10am just now! And we forgot about you! *Turning to his partner* Eh, QS, WE forgot about her!

She: *expressionless*

He: .... er er, because AP and RM had to meet up with a customer later, so we had to push the meeting earlier. Sorry sorry ....

She: *pause*

She: ok.

So I walked back calmly to my table and just sat down on my chair. I swear I almost smelt something burning.

Sure, we have the meeting only once a week, so it's not hard to forget about my part in this meeting.

Fuming, but I continued my work as usual. I was supposed to have another discussion with said people the next day and with more people involved, so I'll bring this up then.

And becos I was mad at this particular guy, when I got wind of some very important and urgent news, I chose to email him instead of calling him which I usually do.

In the afternoon, there was an uproar in the office.

Apparently, some of our products got loaded onto a certain vessel when they weren't supposed to. A very anxious colleague came to me asking if I knew about the situation, and I said I did. I also sent out the email earlier in the morning informing all concerned parties on this issue. The product was NOT supposed to be loaded.

"Then, who is the person who is supposed to inform our plant not to load??"

I smiled.

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ring ....

She : Hello.

He: Eh! The XXX is not supposed to be loaded onto XX Vessel, is it?!

She: Yah.

He: But nobody told me!

She: *in the most nonchalant attitude* I already sent out the email in the morning. Didn't you get it??

Of course you didn't, you idiot! You are always not reading my emails, because im not a manager, or some big shot whom you want to suck up to.

She: Besides, you've also asked me last Friday if XX can be loaded. And I already told you "no". If you didn't get any update from me since then, my last instruction still stands."

He: *silent*

That's right, you fucked up.

Gosh, that felt good.

Said guy was recently rotated to his currently job 3 months ago. Since then, he's pissed a number of my team mates off becos of his attitude; acting all high and mighty, forgetting how he had once worked in the same team.

Quite a number of people just couldn't wait to watch him fall.

Anyway, I don't think I want to continue the rest of the story cos it doesn't matter now. All I want to say is, all humans make mistake(s). It's really your attitude after the mistake that decides if you should be forgiven. Unfortunately, said guy wasn't apologetic and he was desperately looking for loopholes to cover his ass with.

Some people just don't deserve to be forgiven.