the omen - rise of the biatch

Barely a week into my new position, I am already feeling my horns fighting its way to come out. See the place I am at, we have six on the board. Three executive, three non. Four in town, one in East Malaysia, the other in an island up north.

Any declarations would require ALL six signatories. Fine. During a recent corporate exercise they are plenty of documents that require these people to whip out their Mont Blancs and sign their life away. Not a problem...

Problem is the sotong who is handling all this in the office up north is sending me the documents one set at a time several days in a week. Just when you rush out the documents to the director to sign before he leaves town, in comes another. The next day, another set comes in same requirements. Day 3, another set comes in. You guessed it. They need to sign lah...

Fed up or not you tell me? So I shoot off a polite lengthy email to her (yes, despite the fact that I can be your living nightmare, my evil twin has confirmed my politeness in the mail) to the sotong requesting that she collate all documents and sending it to me at one go if possible rather than bits and pieces. And the only thing she could come back with 'for those completed, please send back, thanks'.

Hmmm, maybe polite and me don't equate. But then again, I am still on probation so must be on best behaviour. Waitlah till I get my confirmation letter or perhaps I may not get it after all?? Now where is the file with the KIV applicants who wrote in earlier for this position again? Better keep it handy in case the boss summons for it when they decide to fire me....