Bad Lucks Go Away!!!
1. Caught a type of weird flu that only harms your throat and doesn't easily let go of you. It's been 10 days and I still caugh hard in every 20 mins. I've taken more than 5 bags of flu remedy powder drinks, 4 antiphlogistics for 1 day, and lots of caugh relief pills, but it's still there every 20 mins. I used to fall asleep in seconds but these days it took me 1 hr to quiet down myself. Did I go see a doctor? No. Because I don't see a doctor for only a cold or flu. It's just personal habit so don't argue with me on that.
2. The A/C in my room is finally broken. One night it started to blow only warm air no matter how low I turned down the degree. The next day I went to look for a new A/C and luckily I found a clear-out one in good price, but when I called to my roomate she told me we needed to get landlord's approval on either changing a new one or fixing the old one (which is VERY old). I prefer to throw away the old as store people advised that to fix an old A/C it might cost 2000-3000nt, it's half of the price of that new clear-out! But until landlord opens his mouth, I can't do anything but only suffering from the heat every night. Fine... I give him 3 more days and if he doesn't answer then I will just buy that new clear-out and keep it with me when I move. Don't ask how I keep it Silly... Of course sell it!
3. There is a department in our US HQ called "legal department". It takes care of import-export legal issue or customer claims for us. Every quotesheet we made has to be reviewed by them to make sure the tariff is correct. Without reviewing the quotesheet will be marked on "tariff not reviewed" watermark and it'd be considered as an unofficial quotesheet.
Today our legal department defined one of my ribbon item as "Metalized textile yarn... blah blah blah..." at 13.6% duty while it's in 100% plastic material and doesn't contain any metal elements. The same thing has been shipped to buyer's store at another tariff # at 0% duty, and also to another customer in US under duty at 5.3%. We tried to tell legal dept to double check again but got response that the given tariff is confimed by their professional judgement, and if customer requests they can revise it to "customer preferenced" tariff but they don't obligate for any future trouble.
Becasue of this tariff review policy, we kept getting trouble on making instant offers to buyers, who mostly don't have patience on waiting for one guy when others have made offer right away. Yes, welcome to cruel business world! I wonder what matters more... grabing opportunity or being causious? And if all legal related people are same stubbern and unchallengable as ours?
4. It's been our comapny culture in taiwan office, that if something goes wrong, it must be our fault that we didn't try to understand the case well, we didn't make the communication clear, we didn't get work done in time, we were oversight and not careful enough, we didn't approach more aggressively... etc. It'd never be US people or buyer's fault that they didn't make inquery or their ideas clearly, they didn't give clear instruction, they didn't double check carefully, they didn't work on schedule, they didn't try to understand the case well.... etc. Therefore, we're requested to "stand in US people or buyer's shoe" to think of the scenarios thoroughly before taking action. It's a common opinion from my boss, that if US people's emails come in only 1 or 2 lines, it's becasue we didn't make our points well on our request. Lazy people become kings, and diligent people are requested to work harder to please lazy people. Is this a rule in only our company, or in the whole Chinese history to Westerns?
5. 2 weeks ago, I finally came back to my sweet home from a one month long working trip. 2 weeks later, I'm requested to take off again for China for another 2-3 weeks. It's advised easily as usual by the boss, who's a 50 yo and still not married old maid, who relies on no one but only work, and who never knows how others' life is like with families and friends. When I showed a little reluctance, she asked me same thing again: what's the point you stay in taiwan, if samples are not here, buyers are not here, work can be done everywhere?
Yes, that's your world, Ma'am. But mine is not only work! I have thousands of reasons to stay, which you'd never understand, Ma'am. I have thousands of things to plan to do, no matter I have work or not, Ma'am. Yes, I dedicate to work merely becuz I like it, it doesn't mean work is my everything, Ma'am. Do you understand, Ma'am? So pls don't take work as an excuse to ask us to spend big festival/ holiday with you, Ma'am. Why don't you learn to hang out with yourself, or find some fun for yourself, and leave us alone, Ma'am?
