The First Impression

So here I am, my first post. My first chance to make an impression of myself on this page that is. Honestly, I have no idea what I should be writing here but I will add as ideas comes along. Apparently forcing myself to think of ideas to write turns me into a steam train, with smokes coming out of my head and my brain going "Wut wut wut wut" like that freaking Macklemore song. But I do have something to share today. It's about what happened at work the other day (More like last week I suppose)

First, some background info. The office hours here is from 9 am to 6 pm. My company allows half an hour of flexibility for our working hours that is we can show up at 8.30 am and leave at 5.30 pm or show up at 9.30 pm and leave at 6.30 pm or somewhere in between. You get the idea. So it is pretty usual for me and my 2 housemates to show up earlier around 8.20 am and leave work around 6 pm. We pretty much are the earliest to arrive at the office most of the time. But last Friday, when we are preparing to leave office around 6 pm, one of the colleagues actually told us (in Chinese) "You guys sure leave work on time"

Well first thing, it was a Friday, I was pretty tired and a little bit annoyed so the first thing I said after that was "Bitch, where the fuck were you when we arrived half an hour earlier than everybody else?". Of course I did not say that. Just a less vulgar interpretation of what actually goes on in my brain. Yes, you read correctly. That was the less vulgar version. And now we've come to the problem.

It seems that when people arrive early to work, the gesture is under appreciated and unnoticeable because, of course, there is nobody to notice. But when people take off slightly earlier or even on time, it's like a 'dim sum' place on a Sunday morning. Everybody's staring at you with a death glare as if you took their last 'cha siew pau' (steamed pork buns). I mean, if I can finish my work on time, why exactly do I need to stay another 10 minutes or so? Will the Earth fall out of orbit if I leave on time?

But I do also believe that some people stay longer because they love their job. If that is the case, good for you. But that is not the case for me, unfortunately. The thing is I will always be more attracted to the prospects of getting a job with flexible hours because let's be frank here, I am not a morning person. Most mornings, I am slower than the first Pentium chip, and that's after my morning coffee.

And truthfully, there is not enough coffee beans in the world to make me a morning person. Ciao