eventful

wah suddenly so many ppl write at once.. wanted to write yesterday, but was chatting with sy over msn till late. now chatting with pw and sy, but sy say i shld learn to multi-task. so dun blame me hor, if i am blur in the msn conversation, coz i'm writing this at the same time :p

anyway, today was not a good day. the TP intern took MC yesterday, but she bumped into our German boss at esplanade for some tourism awards at nite. The German boss called my boss immediately (my boss worked till 2am last nite coz of some technical problems that one guy was having and he needed a solution urgently).

this morning when my boss came, he told the girl to be prepared. coz since Dec she started working there she has taken 6 MC and 2 urgent leave. the German boss already start to notice her and my boss also warned her before. Then yesterday nite was the last straw. She took MC but German boss saw her outside.

Ard 10 plus my boss was called by the general manager. talked abt this incident. then after lunch the German boss came in. my boss was called again. German boss was FURIOUS. to make matters worse, sanjay and val are on MC today. that added fuel to fire. German boss went to HR and took the leave records of the TP intern, came back to call my boss and the TP intern again. they came back abt 10 mins later. then my boss called all the interns in. he din scold us or anything. talked to us nicely. sort of comforted the TP intern also. coz the German screamed at her like crazy. wanted to fail her and stop her work from today. but he decided to give her another chance. my boss said so far German boss has made 5 girls in this department cried. afterwhich he was the one who had to do the counselling and comforting..

he talked a lot to us. felt that he's quite nice. encouraged us to hold on and finish our internship without any mishaps. help him to help us. so far he has not failed any interns and he wants to give us good grades. he also said one day he bring us interns all out for lunch. sort of closure to our internship.

though he seems nasty at first, i feel that he's actually a kind person at heart. like today, though he worked late last nite, he din show temper or anything. i thot he'll be really angry with the TP intern, but surprisingly, he was gentle and comforting towards her. and he always brings us out for lunch, buy tidbits for us, treats us to tea breaks, buys breakfast for us etc. its just that he expects us to be punctual and do work properly. if we dun meet his standard in these 2 aspects, he can get really nasty at times.

anyway, while he was talking to us in his room, he asked me why i looked like i was the one being scolded by the German boss. he told me dun worry, he thinks the German boss wont scold me.. haha i guess val was right. i really looked like i was abt to cry anytime. maybe that's why nobody scolded me yet..

actually, i did a grave mistake.

the e-newsletter i was assigned to do, had to be sent out on mon. and mon happened to be the day i stayed back for extended technical support, so i could finish up my work at the same time. i had to do 2 versions of the newsletter. one short version to be sent to the subscribers, another full version to be uploaded onto the website. when i finished the newsletter, only me and the other perm staff was left in the office. he helped me to send a test newsletter and he told me to check for any errors before sending out to the subscribers. i checked and everything was fine. so the newsletter was sent out.

the next day, my colleague discovered that the link to the full newsletter was not changed. that means when readers click on it, they'll be linked to the last issue! how careless can i be??

the worst part is, the mistake was in the short version we sent to subscribers, not the full version uploaded onto the site. that means i can do nothing abt it! coz i cant possibly correct the mistake and resend all the newsletters. i almost cried. wanted to tell my boss, but my colleague say its better not to. i may not be the one who gets the scolding, coz its my first time doing it. most likely he'll scold the TP intern who handed over the stuff to me, and the guy who helped me sent out the newsletter on mon nite. they were supposedly more experienced and had to be responsible for doing the final checking before the newsletters were sent out. both of them was on MC that day. i was really at a loss. should i tell my boss? if i dun tell him, when the German boss finds out and confronts my boss, he'll be angry that he din noe abt this rite? i feel that its right that i tell my boss, but then i'll be getting a lot of ppl into trouble if i do.. arrgh! why i so careless? i checked all the links but missed this one! i dunno why. i was worried and upset for the whole day. confused too. dunno what to do..

some more my boss brought us out for lunch. for the whole journey to harbourfront, during lunch, and the journey back to office, i was contemplating whether to tell him or not. but my colleagues told me not to. and i dun dare to tell him on my own, so in the end i didn't.

i felt uneasy for the whole nite. decided to tell him this morning. but before that i told it to the TP intern and the staff who helped me to send out the newsletter. the guy said we cant send the newsletter out again. he said dun really need to let my boss noe. he told me to speak to the writer, coz he's the one in charge of the newsletter. the writer said it's ok. we cant do anything abt it anyway. just be prepared to get scolding if the German boss finds out. so in the end my boss doesn't noe abt this.

my colleague reprimanded the TP intern for not doing the checking and nv teach me properly how to do the linking and editing of pics (the pics were distorted). she's quite upset. and then she get scolding from German boss. made her feel even worse. i felt very bad. actually its my fault that i nv check properly.. sigh, why am i so careless??

then when my boss finished talking to us in his room, he asks :"so anything u all have to say? anything i need to noe?" huh, i was thinking of this mistake. but in the end i din say anything.

i am mentally prepared to get a BIG scolding when this mistake gets to the German boss.. just hope that when the time comes, i won't cry. or else my boss will have to end up counselling me..