Oh what a week...

sometime in March in 2005...

This has been one of the most tiring week in my life! Work's been challenging... All the OTPs, LOs, Mortgage, Transfers, completions, dates, Mmon, internal memos, cheque/cash/cash order payments and reciepts...lawyers, secretaries, buyers, sellers, agents, clients, HDB officers.... Was just wham-slammed with conveyancing jargon and thousand and one procedures.

Everyone was telling me that it's an easy job when I first started on Monday. And I can see why they say that... it is easy after you're used to it. But being a new comer with no background of WTH is going on... it's kinda frustrating... I think they should at least give 1 day briefing to what should be done before putting the person on the job... especially if she has absolutely no idea or inkling what goes on in the conveyancing process.

But I heard that that's just the way things are done over there. Newbies come in and are thrown in the deep end of the ocean and you just simply have to ask for tips to swim if you don't know how to. Oh well, I guess I'm starting to adpat to it, just that on top of tuition and looking for a perm job and going for interviews, this is definitely draining. The turn over rate for work procedures is super high. Every other minute I have to answer calls... call up files, call up secretaries to check files... now I know why I hate an administrative, desk bound job....

NOT to mention... the money's no good....

Hahha but there are perks I suppose. You get to meet all sorts of people. Just came across the most interesting couple today. What we usually do during appointments is to obtain their SingPass password from them so as to retrieve their updated CPF account statement.And most clients, usually give us their password as we are their acting law firm, which means we're acting in their interest and therefore, there is that level of trust to a certain extent. However, this particular pair of couple, were quite against the idea of providing us with the password as it is "private", which is totally understandable. So I suggested that they come with me to the computer terminal to key in their password. BUT guess what, after they keyed in their password, they insisted on staying there to watch and see what statements I'll retrieve and they only went back to their seats after I'm done with them. First encounter with such insecure people.

That was not all...according to the lawyer, they had to give a cashier's order to make up the cash payment for the cash component of the deposit. What is usually practiced is that the cashier's order is usually paid to the law firm, and the law firm will issue a cheque addressed to the HDB because we are ACTING IN their interest. But the clients simply refused and came up with all sorts of excuses such as the lawyer running off with the money (which was only about $9,000... and we see cheques and CO's for tens of thousands everyday), law firm closing down and the clients cannot get back their money etc etc. Even their agent was trying to tell them that it is the common practice... Anyway, I heard cuz I was trying to search for some files near their table. I just can't believe that they were so insecure and I did not know whether to snigger, or to make some snide comments... But I did neither lar... just walked away....

Anyway.... it hasn't been too bad yet. Just hoping and keeping my fingers crossed that I won't make any major mistakes before I leave. They asked me to go back to work alternate saturdays but NO WAY am I going to do that... not because of the job that I have to do, but based on the opportunity costs, it's simply not worth for me to....But I hate rejecting people, but I guess this time I got to do it... I need time for myself, and to look for a job I guess... My body's so tired and aching! Never felt this drained for a long time.....

*hanging on...*

Highlight of the week: 2 Interviews and a coffee cake.

P.S. Went for Interview at The Event Company and met Kelly, one of my Theatre Studies accquaintance there. She's been working there for over 2 years already... most interesting... and met my ex-manager from Fiddle Heads, Steve, in the lift lobby when I went to Frontech building for interview... small world.... Hee....